Architectural and landscape design practice Fereday Pollard has appointed Jennifer Dixon as its Director of Growth and Communications to spearhead the practices’ growth programme and further strengthen its senior leadership base.
The appointment follows a highly successful year already spent working with Fereday Pollard in an advisory capacity. In this new permanent position, Jennifer will drive the practice’s ever-increasing involvement in the engineering-led major transport and infrastructure sectors as well as its expansion into new related sectors and increasing international presence.
Jennifer brings 30 years of experience to Fereday Pollard having previously founded her own London architecture practice in 1993, which later merged with Austin-Smith: Lord in 2003, where she became principal of its London studio. From 2013 – 2019, Jennifer led the architecture discipline at AECOM across the EMEA region. Jennifer practices as a RIBA Client Adviser, and will continue to provide specialist advisory capability and capacity to Client teams embarking on strategic-scale development, augmenting Fereday Pollards existing expertise in pre-design advice and DCO services for infrastructure projects. She is a Board Trustee of RIBA and a Director of the Construction Industry Council.
Chris Pollard, Managing Director at Fereday Pollard, commented:
“Jennifer’s appointment comes at a pivotal time and follows on from a highly successful period for the practice that has seen our new station at Abbey Wood receive a RIBA London award, several of the sites along the River Thames on the Thames Tideway Tunnel programme being completed to high acclaim, and a number of other strategically important schemes hitting key milestones such as the new stations at Cambridge South and at Beaulieu New Town, the Lower Thames Crossing and on the new reservoirs in the Fens and Lincolnshire.
“Jennifer’s appointment is not only an important next step for the future of the practice but with her extensive experience in the highly specialised environments of transport and infrastructure design, it also reflects our commitment to the ongoing development and expansion of the human-focussed design solutions we are proud to deliver within engineering-led major infrastructure.”
Jennifer added:
“I am delighted to be working more closely with Fereday Pollard in this role, the practice’s ethos and ambitions align closely with my own. My multidisciplinary background and experience across a wide range of clients and projects in the transportation and infrastructure sectors will allow me to bring focused direction and strategic insight to support the practices’ growth, its projects and its Clients. I look forward to helping the practice to achieve its goals and explore new opportunities.”