From 1980 to 1987, he studied at the University of Bath and after graduating worked in South Africa and Sydney, Australia. In 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he moved to Berlin, where he spent eight years working on projects in Berlin, Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Dresden. He joined Pringle Richards Sharratt in 1998.

He has extensive experience in both cultural and commercial projects, including the Herbert Art Gallery; Fort Nelson; the Black Cultural Archives; the Radcliffe Science Library, Faculty of Law and English at the University of Oxford; a new bus depot for London Transport in West Ham; various projects for the Victoria & Albert Museum; the renovation of Floral Street in Covent Garden; the Pitt Rivers Research Centre and the Charlottenburg residential complex in Berlin.

He also participated in the Shrewsbury Music School project, one of the first cross-laminated timber buildings in the UK. This was followed by lectures on the use of laminated timber in construction throughout the UK and around the world, e.g. in Shanghai, Berlin, Paris, and Edinburgh. He has also given a series of lectures on the architectural process at TU Berlin, Cambridge, Manchester, CSM, UCL, the Architectural Association, and Lincoln.

He has invaluable experience working in the field of cultural heritage, having completed numerous projects involving listed buildings and monuments, including in collaboration with the Heritage Lottery Fund. He is a regular member of the London Diocesan Advisory Committee, which reviews building materials for churches. He became an associate partner at Pringle Richards Sharratt in 1999 and has been a director since 2005.