People

More about Gerry Graville

Leading the development of our vision and corporate strategy Gerry has led the AIS Group through phenomenal growth, expanding the business from its’ humble beginnings, extending our client base and geographic reach, to its’ status today as a leading global provider undertaking a wide range of workplace projects.

With over 25 years’ experience, Gerry is focussed on continually improving our offering, building up leadership talent and organisational development across each of our 11 locations, ensuring we serve our clients with a consistent first class offering.

Influenced by his early background working for a main construction contractor, his front-end knowledge, combined with a longstanding vision to seamlessly fulfil the workplace needs of multinational companies across the globe, Gerry has cemented AIS’ reputation as a leading design and build organisation with a reputation for quality, innovation and service excellence.

As a hands on leader Gerry’s approach provides strategic insight on projects and innovation across all aspects of our integrated capabilities, ensuring our clients can seamlessly resolve their global workplace challenges.

More about Heath Payne

Heath is our laboratory specialist, heading up our Life Science division. Experienced in working with a range of different lab types including production and test labs, wet, dry and biomedical as well as technical spaces Heath if perfectly placed to support the design and delivery of laboratory work zones.

Heath is highly driven with over 20 years’ experience delivering successful projects to the highest quality of health, safety and environmental standards. With his extensive management and commercial background, Heath has a proven track record of delivering projects from award through to completion onsite and client handover.

He ensures projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest standards of workmanship and quality. Heath makes certain output for all designers meets the technical and commercial requirement of lab and high tech spaces.

More about Andrew Davies

With over 20 years experience Andrew has a broad knowledge of the commercial real estate development and transaction process and has worked with both landlords and tenants specialising in the Life Science sector.

Prior to joining AIS, Andrew oversaw property development at Imperial College London ThinkSpace and was involved in the development of stat of the art laboratory and office facilities to accommodate organisations ranging from start-ups to established businesses predominantly in Digital Tech and Life Sciences.

Andrew has overseen the repositioning of various real estate assets converting office to laboratory space and managed both leading and freehold transitions. Andrews 20 plus years experience on both the consulting and principle side of the industry gives him the bilateral, empathetic understanding of the entire process from identification of premises through to delivery.

More about Simon Hart

Simon has over 15 years experience within the commercial interiors industry. He has extensive experience taking client aspirations from initial concept to successful completion on site. He consistently develops creative environments that drive productivity into the workplace.

He ensures the output of all designers meet technical and commercial requirements within each project, managing design and creativity processes, promoting integration of disciplines. Simon’s career path has allowed both experience and developmental training with regards sustainability and intelligent design.

Simon founded the AIS design team and has pushed its development, ensuring people centric workplaces, that go beyond our clients expectations. Simon is a constant driver of innovation, recently implementing emerging technologies including VR and augmented reality.

More about Brett Corthine

Brett’s role at AIS as Technical Consultant is to form a close working relationship with our clients and their MEP consultants and to perceive the projects technical requirements and key challenges.

He has a hands on approach and will research and review the buildings record information, coordinate site surveys, understand client requirements and project particulars. This ensures AIS produce a coordinated / compliant / cost effective design that receives approval in line with the critical path programme. Brett will also help find value engineering options that will not compromise quality or delivery.

During construction, Brett will coordinate factory testing, site inspections, void closures, snagging and commissioning, witnessing and client training. He will also be on hand to provide technical support and help solve any technical problems throughout the project. 

More about Chris Skuce

A multi-disciplinary 3D generalist with over 5 years experience, starting my career as a residential visualiser before exploring virtual reality as an exciting medium to express design. Chris’ primary passion is creating a fully immersive and realistic environment portraying the intricacies and subtleties of considered design, to create a fully prepared experience for the client to experience.

Chris helps to create visuals with our designers to aid our clients in realising their new workplaces Ranging from static renders to video flythrough and/or a full VR Experience. Using real-time software to help advance and iterate on the design for a fully considered output and using this software to engage with clients helping it mature with their opinion in mind.

Chris is skilled at 3D Modelling, Texturing, Lighting, Material Creation, Unreal Engine 4 realtime workflow, VR, Video and Static Rendering.

More about Nikita Nolan

Nikita is responsible for developing, maintaining and promoting our Integrated Management System. Her unique blend of customer service, eye for quality and process driven ethos makes her a perfect addition to both our pre and post contract teams.

Nikita manages and implements our health and safety audits providing essential support to our Operational Teams across the business. She manages our external consultants, collating their feedback and advice, ensuring all AIS team members are fully trained and converse with the latest legislation and best practice.

She liaises, manages and develops strategic partner relationships with BSI and other relevant partners. Nikita also develops the ISO 14001 components with design, pre-contracts and contracts for operational activities. Nikita performs regular site audits with project and site managers. Measuring, reporting and managing corrective management plans, then providing and sourcing appropriate training.

More about Michele Donoghue

Michele leads the human resources function for AIS, helping to deliver our people strategy and ensuring we continue to build a thriving organisational culture. Providing clear and diligent planning, Michele enables the delivery of our growth plans and maximises the potential for individuals to contribute to the organisations success.

Working alongside the AIS board of directors to shape the organisation structure and auditing levels of training to ensure continued skill set development across the business, Michele ensures we meet business growth targets.

Michele takes a leading role in championing, driving an inclusive performance culture internally and externally  allowing us to attract, continually develop and retrain the right people.  Building excellent relationships across the businesses at all levels and understanding varied operational needs Michele ensures each and every person and role at AIS matters.