Colliers cost leadership hire: implications for UK project teams and risk planning
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Colliers has appointed chartered quantity surveyor Ben Hulland as a director in its cost management team to strengthen delivery on large, complex, multi-sector projects. Hulland brings more than 18 years’ experience as a project director at Quartz Project Services and Paragon Building Consultancy, with earlier roles at Turner & Townsend, Gleeds and Mace. His remit includes expanding Colliers’ cost management capability and developing internal talent, signalling continued investment in high-level commercial and cost planning expertise for major infrastructure and building programmes.
Technical Brief
- Appointment is into Colliers’ cost management team within its professional services and engineering business unit.
- Role is explicitly targeted at “large and complex projects” rather than smaller single-asset commissions.
- Mandate includes working “across multiple sectors”, implying cross-over cost benchmarking between infrastructure and building portfolios.
- Internal remit covers structured talent development within the cost team, not just external project delivery.
Our Take
Within our 803 Infrastructure stories, UK-based consultancies like Colliers, Turner & Townsend, Gleeds and Mace frequently appear in coverage of major public-sector and regeneration schemes, so senior cost appointments here are likely aimed at competing more aggressively for complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
The 2022 strategic partnership with Paragon Building Consultancy signals Colliers’ push to integrate cost management with technical due diligence and project monitoring, a model that in our database tends to win work on refurbishment-heavy portfolios rather than pure new-build pipelines in the United Kingdom.
Cost specialists with 15+ years’ experience, such as the more than 18-year profile noted here, are typically associated in our coverage with clients seeking early-stage cost-risk scenario planning, which has become critical on UK projects facing inflation-linked contract pressures and volatile materials pricing.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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