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With over 40 years of experience, Mike has built up an extensive knowledge of building services within the construction industry. His role includes the complete M&E services designs, contractual and financial control of projects from feasibility to handover, liaising with clients and contractors. Throughout his career, Mike has worked on a wide spectrum of projects including Commercial, Defence, Healthcare, Education, Residential, Hospitality, and Retail developments.

Mike is a devoted husband and is a father to two children (now apparently adults). He enjoys watching rugby and walking the family dog.

Jeremy heads up Rybka’s Sustainability team and with 15 years in the industry, has significant experience in delivering sustainability consultancy on many public and commercial development projects from all built environment sectors across the UK. A qualified Passivhaus Consultant, one of Jeremy’s passions is low energy, low carbon building design, and coupled with his experience in embodied carbon and circular economy consultancy, Jeremy helps to drive projects towards excellence in sustainable design.

Jeremy is licensed in all BREEAM methodologies, is a qualified BREEAM Accredited Professional and In Use Assessor, and specialises in developing sustainability frameworks for large-scale developments and masterplans. Jeremy’s particular area of interest is working closely with local planning authorities and funding bodies to provide strategic advice on creating and applying sustainability policy.

Outside work hours, Jeremy used to enjoy walking, whisky and writing music but these days his young daughter occupies much of his time!

Steven has over 10 years of industry experience, a 1st class BEng (Hons) degree and Master’s degree (MSc) in Building Services Engineering. Steven has worked on large, medium and small scale projects across a variety of sectors, including Commercial, Retail, Education, Hospitality, and Residential developments. This experience has allowed Steven to cultivate excellent engineering, IT and design skills, along with being Commercially Aware. Steven has an approachable personality, is well-motivated and can operate effectively within a pro-active team culture.

In his spare time, Steven is an enthusiastic golfer, football player, and runner.

Martin is an experienced electrical engineer and low carbon consultant who brings experience from all sectors of construction. Martin is also a lighting specialist and member of the Society of Light and Lighting. Martin naturally has a curiosity towards new technologies and design techniques. This ensures his approach to each project is current, including new technologies where they are appropriate and proven to be beneficial after consideration and analysis. Native to the Highlands, Martin studied and worked in Building Services in Glasgow before returning to Inverness in 2008.

Martin played shinty for Lovat and is currently Vice President of the club.

Barry joined Rybka’s Glasgow office in 2020 to help increase the company’s presence in that area and currently holds Incorporated (IEng) status with CIBSE.

Barry has over 18 years’ industry experience both north and south of the border across a wide range of sectors and enjoys putting this to good use in providing low-energy designs sympathetic to buildings’ aesthetics. Barry has played a part in the delivery of a number of award-winning public and private sector projects over the course of his career to date.

In his spare time, Barry is a keen runner and enjoys playing and watching football, and spending time with his wife and two young daughters.

Martin is a part of the Mechanical Services Engineering department at Rybka Edinburgh. Alongside his core engineering responsibilities, Martin is also proficient in IES dynamic building simulation modelling including the production of associated energy performance certificates (EPCs). Throughout his time at Rybka Martin has gained significant experience in key sectors including commercial, education and hotel and leisure projects throughout the UK.

In his spare time Martin has completed many distance running events for charity across Scotland.

David is an Electrical Design Engineer with over 7 years’ experience in the building services engineering field having worked on a wide variety of projects in numerous sectors such as Commercial, Hospitality, Education and Healthcare. Since joining Rybka, David has progressed into a lead electrical role, with a broad technical knowledge of electrical design engineering and in-depth knowledge of design software programmes such as CAD, Amtech, Dialux and Lighting Reality.

In his free time, David enjoys socialising, playing football and gaming.

Rhiann is a Senior Sustainability Engineer, a licenced BREEAM assessor, and has qualifications in Level 3-5 energy assessments. She has developed substantial experience in carrying out sustainability, energy, daylight/sunlight and thermal analyses on a range of projects in both the private and public sector fields across the UK. Rhiann has a particular interest in social sustainability and how buildings affect health and wellbeing of its occupants, and is accordingly working towards gaining WELL Building Standard Accredited Professional status. Rhiann also has a leading role in business development for the firm.

In her spare time, Rhiann enjoys playing badminton, visiting castles and painting.

Chris is part of Rybka’s Electrical Services engineering department. As an experienced Electrical Engineer, Chris has worked on a wide range of projects in the construction industry giving him the ability to understand the client’s requirements in each sector. Having vast experience in the Healthcare and Educational sector, Chris has been the lead electrical engineer on small, medium and large projects delivering full M&E design packages through to project completion.

In his free time, Chris enjoys travelling and playing sports such as golf and football.

Colin is an Intermediate Electrical Design Engineer with 7 years’ experience in the building services engineering profession. He has worked on a wide variety of projects in numerous sectors such as hospitality, residential, education, science laboratories and research, healthcare, and commercial properties.

Since joining Rybka Edinburgh, Colin is motivated to attain Chartered Engineer status with the Institute of Engineering Technology (IET) through continued development and increased technical knowledge of electrical design.

Colin has a broad knowledge of design software programmes such as CAD, Elevate, Amtech, DIALux, and IES for daylight modelling.

In his spare time, Colin enjoys spending time with family, climbing Scotland’s Munros, and playing golf.

Andrew is a Graduate Electrical Engineer within our Glasgow team at Rybka. Andrew has over 3 and a half years’ industry experience and is currently working to complete his (BEng) honours degree part-time in Building Services Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Andrew has experience working in many different sectors including education, commercial, health care, and transport. Andrew has strong skills working in AutoCAD, Revit MEP, Amtech, Dialux and other design calculation software.

During his spare time, Andrew particularly enjoys playing and watching football at the weekend. He also enjoys travelling and playing golf.

James joined Rybka in 2019 having graduated from his MEng programme in Mechanical Engineering. During his time at Rybka, he has been involved in a variety of projects in the Education, Healthcare and Retail sectors and has shown an enthusiasm for expanding his knowledge of mechanical building services. He is further developing his technical skills in AutoCAD, Revit MEP, and IESVE.

In his spare time, James enjoys reading, watching movies, and travelling.

Lucie is a Graduate Mechanical Engineer who joined Rybka’s Glasgow office in 2020 after graduating with a BEng from Glasgow Caledonian University.

Lucie has been involved in various projects across different sectors such as Education, Commercial, and Healthcare. She is growing her experience in mechanical services design and carrying out calculations as part of a systematic design process, as well as further developing her AutoCAD skills.

In her spare time, Lucie enjoys watching stand-up comedy and travelling.

Ben joined the Inverness team in 2020 after graduating from Strathclyde University with an MEng in Mechanical Engineering. Having grown up in Aberfeldy, Ben is interested in rural developments and the outdoors. He is developing experience with all aspects of mechanical services design and is interested in low and zero carbon buildings and the use of modelling software in the design process.

Ben is also a keen mountain biker, and spends as much of his spare time as possible up mountains or in the woods.

Gareth is a Trainee Electrical Engineer within our Edinburgh team, who recently graduated from Heriot-Watt University with a BEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. While studying at university and college, he gained an interest in both lighting design and electrical distribution design.

During his spare time, he enjoys watching and playing football. He also enjoys playing video games and travelling.

Since joining Rybka over 15 years ago, Andy has been involved in a wide variety of projects ranging from small domestic properties to large scale healthcare facilities. Andy’s original background is in electrical engineering having previously worked as an electrical design engineer before moving into Computer Aided Design (CAD).

In his free time Andy enjoys fishing, hill walking and watching his local football team in both home and away matches.

David joined Rybka in 2012, bringing with him a wealth of CAD experience on various commercial projects across the UK. David continues to build on his knowledge of CAD through his involvement with a number of large-scale projects, primarily in the healthcare and commercial sectors. He is also currently involved in developing Rybka’s BIM capabilities, collaborating closely with his colleagues on the successful implementation of BIM. David has also gained Autodesk Revit Certified User status.

With over 10 years’ experience in a consulting and BIM environment in a variety of high profile projects, Andrew is involved in assisting Rybka’s BIM offering to clients. This involves setting up new BIM projects, clash detection and creation of federated models to assist the design team. Andrew is also a member of the BRE Academy, with the future aim to achieve BIM Certification with BRE (BIP) and EngTech LCIBSE.

In his spare time, Andrew plays for his local football team and enjoys visiting his family in Australia.

Craig is part of the BIM team for RYBKA. Joining us in 2019, Craig has been tasked with numerous projects, including different sectors such as Healthcare, Education, Sports, and Airports. As an apprentice Craig hopes to keep expanding his experience and knowledge of the construction industry, using software packages such as Revit, AutoCAD, Dialux, and Revizto. He is working with the BIM team to become a key member of a variety of projects delivering the highest quality work.

In his spare time, Craig enjoys motorsports and other activities such as football and cycling.