Founder, and head of Digital Engineering consultancy services at Ridge. Brent has an in-depth experience across multiple industry roles delivering complex national and international client projects.

Brent joined Ridge in 2013 to drive implementation of BIM within the business and employing his strong technical background to lead large multidiscipline projects. During this time, Brent created a consultancy team which provides a suite of bespoke Digital Engineering services. The team now has an established client base with high-profile, high-value projects.

Brent is a chartered construction professional (MCIAT) with experience in multiple industry roles, including BIM & Information Management, Design Management, and Architectural Technology. His skills have been developed on high-complexity projects, across a variety of sectors, for clients at national and international levels. This has allowed him to utilise technical knowledge of construction design and delivery, along with digital technologies, processes, and culture, in order to engage stakeholders and lead projects across all stages.

“Brent spent time with me explaining the world of BIM. He is enthusiastic and knowledgeable in the subject, and he enabled me to understand where our business fits into the world of BIM, and how Ridge would be able to help us with any BIM projects that we are involved in.”

Alex is a technically skilled digital professional that actively pursues practical applications for BIM within the construction industry with proven involvement in the design and delivery of high value schemes throughout all stages of construction. Passionate advocate for interoperability and openBIM, Alex pursues an inclusive approach to digital implementation which involves all project members.

At Ridge, Alex manages the day to day running of the Digital Engineering (Building Information Modelling) team, this involves tracking team actions, training and mentoring, liaising with clients, providing project proposals, pushing new initiatives as well as managing his own projects.

Alex has provided Ridge’s award-winning digital fire compliance services to several projects. The process involves testing information models with real firestopping product test data to identify non-compliance and need for engineering judgement.

With a breadth of information management experience, Alex has supported both clients and contractors to rationalise undeliverable requirements and align to ISO 16739 (IFC). He created Ridge’s information management platform. The platform, fully compliant to ISO 19650, has been built to enable our projects to move away from endless documentation and towards a searchable, structured platform, which can connect to tools via API.