Key people

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Stuart Vaughan

MEng CEng FICE MIStructE

Managing Director of WHP, actively involved in and passionate about delivering efficient design solutions to our projects through focus on working with our clients to provide optimum buildable and safe quality solutions saving our clients time and money. Proficient in a wide range of construction engineering solutions from façade retention, building stability and basement construction temporary works through to efficient permanent works solutions. 12 years main contractor experience delivering coordinated engineering solutions across a range of packages. Member/contributor of CIRIA committees.

Key projects

– 100 Bishopsgate/I Bishopsgate

Plaza & Devonshire Row – Earls Court Demolition – winner of ICE Coopers Hill War

Memorial medal and BCIA temporary works award – K1 Knightsbridge – London Bridge Station

Redevelopment, – Thames Tideway Tunnel – East – HS2 – S1/S2 – Nova East – Broadgate Tower – BBC Broadcasting House

TEAM LEADERS

Serdar Dundar

CEng FICE FIStructE MHKIE MSc BSc

Serdar is a Civil Engineer with a unique balance of consulting and contracting experience from a wide range of major multidisciplined projects in the Civil Engineering and Building Industries. He has 21 years' of international design experience in large-scale infrastructure projects in Eastern Europe, Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. Recognised as originator of competitive and innovative solutions, combining specialized knowledge from construction in marine environment, construction of cut and cover tunnels and underground stations, construction of precast segmental bridges, longspan steelwork structures.

Yueyang Zhao

PhD Cantab MA MEng BA CEng MICE

Yueyang joined Wentworth House Partnership in 2013 after six years working as piled foundation and retaining wall designer, project engineer and manager in the contracting industry in the UK. Typical projects comprised Stratford Athlete’s Village and St. Botolph’s House. He was design manager for the diaphragm wall subcontract package at C405 Paddington Station. He has extensive experience in soil mechanics research, physical and numerical modelling through his MEng research work on pushedin piling (GIKEN-Cambridge collaboration), and PhD works on centrifuge, advanced triaxial and numerical modelling of in situ soil testing for foundation performance prediction at the Schofield Centrifuge Centre at Cambridge University. Yueyang has led WHP’s delivery of Shieldhall Tunnel in Glasgow and Thames Tideway Tunnel East projects in London.

John Laverick

CEng MIMechE FICE

John is a Director at Wentworth House Partnership and leads our team of engineers and technicians based in Leeds, West Yorkshire. John has over 20 years’ experience successfully executing projects across multiple sectors including nuclear, defence, energy, highways, railway and complex demolition among others. John’s mechanical and heavy structural/civil background means he has particular expertise with complex engineering in heavy industries and in particular at the interfaces of disciplines. For instance, heavy craneage or complex lifting schemes, demonstrated by a recent project to decommission a fire damaged and partially collapsed wind turbine structure.

Tomasz Mochol

MSc CEng MICE Eur Ing

Tomasz started his career working in consultancies in Poland on reinforced concrete and steel structure design and with a contractor on glulam design. On joining Wentworth House Partnership in 2006, he quickly adapted to UK codes and the specialities of temporary works design, and is now an accomplished designer with a broad range of temporary works design experience which he uses to good advantage on his client’s projects. Noteworthy projects he was involved in include Earls Court – demolition of existing super and sub structures directly adjacent and above rail tracks and assets, Blackfriars Station – removal of the existing railway station down to the foundations to allow new secant pile wall formation, and K1 Knightsbridge – retention of façades to four elevations.

Surinder Mann

MSc BEng CEng MICE

Surinder has led teams in structural design in the UK and US in the onshore and offshore sectors. More recently he has been responsible for the temporary works design in major buildings in the UK. He has extensive experience with onsite coordination and delivery of those projects. Surinder offers a command of the requirements of demanding projects with tight deadlines and the coordination of the multiple and diverse parties involved in the construction process. Noteworthy projects include Miller Park baseball stadium permanent works design in Milwaukee and HS2 temporary works design.

Kostas Leontaridis

CEng MICE

Kostas has an MEng and an MSc from the Aristotle University in Greece and is Chartered with ICE since 2019. He has worked as a geotechnical engineer in Greece for nine years, until he joined WHP in 2017 as a Senior Engineer in Temporary Works, carrying out structural and geotechnical design, managing projects and leading teams of Engineers and Technicians. His main areas of expertise include retaining structures and propping, deep excavations, slope stability and damage assessment of underground assets. Some of the major projects Kostas has worked on include Thames Tideway Tunnel East, K1 Knightsbridge, Heads of the Valley Road in Wales, xHoly Church of Protato drainage and foundation reinforcement in Mount Athos, Greece, and the design and rehabilitation of the unsanitary Dumpsite ‘Café’ in Montenegro.

TEAM LEADERS (CONT)

Theodore Litsos

MEng MSc DIC CEng MICE

Theodore is a Principal Civil Engineer experienced in the design and assessment of infrastructure projects in the UK. He is the team leader of our Bristol office, responsible for business development in South West and the wider UK infrastructure market. Theo has designed concrete and composite (steel-concrete) bridges, carried out assessment of existing structures and structural inspections during the last decade. He has also successfully managed multidisciplinary projects on HS2 Enabling Works and Bristol Metrobus. More recently, he leads the temporary works design on the A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross project and provides temporary works support to our clients in Hinkley Point C.

Dylan O'Reilly

BEng (Hons)

Dylan joined Wentworth House Partnership in 2019 and leads our team of engineers and technicians based in Bathgate, central Scotland. With eight years working in site-based contractor roles, acting in Temporary Works Supervisor/Coordinator roles as well as Appointed Person for Lifting Operations for the duration of his career, Dylan has an in-depth knowledge of the engineering and delivery of reinforced concrete structures, including in situ, precast and post-tensioned, and the associated construction methodologies employed. With experience including the delivery of new-build healthcare and education facilities and residential and high-rise structures, he possesses extensive experience in the management and coordination of temporary works from cradle to gate.

David Lohmann

Chief Technician

David has 14 years’ experience working in construction, for both contractors and consultants. During this time has worked on multiple projects over many sectors; from constructing Olympic stadiums and other concrete frames to demolishing power stations and providing constructability solutions for large London developments. He is passionate about communicating our designs in a clear and consistent manner that provide the end-user with the information needed that also aligns with industry standard and is easily recognised as WHP work, while coordinating these designs with other parties’ information. Over the past five years, David has written, developed and implemented internal BIM standards to allow external verification and BIM consultation on the basis of these.