Paul Weston
Director
Paul is the Director of Box Twenty and is a Chartered Building Services Engineer with over 20 years experience within the industry.
He is an experienced Project Director and Design Manager with experience on large multi-discipline, phased and complex projects.
His technical, commercial and leadership skills are paramount in the effective delivery and management of all projects from concept through to completion.
Paul has successfully managed key projects in the Residential, Commercial, Education, Public Sector and Leisure sectors.
He can bring this extensive experience from within these sectors to all projects where an alternative approach can be advantageous.
Paul enjoys cycling, golf and going camping in France and within the UK with his family.
Oliver Payne
Associate Director
Oliver is an effective and confident communicator who is comfortable working as a central member of the design team.
He has a passionate interest in sustainable design and believes strongly in the benefits of a holistic approach to building services and architecture. He has proven experience of developing robust energy strategies at the concept stage of projects to meet challenging sustainability targets and delivering these projects through all stages of design and construction. He takes pride in his work and is enthusiastic in demonstrating his sound engineering and project delivery philosophies.
Oliver outside of work enjoys spending time with his family and dog Swci. Swci also enjoys coming into the office and spending the day with the Box Twenty team.
Samantha Fortune
Business Manager & BD
Sam has been part of the Box Twenty team since August 2018.
She has a wide scope within her role including marketing, business development, social media, invoicing and office management (just to name a few!). Sam is also the mental health first aider and wellbeing officer.
She is currently working on her Chartership of Marketing Qualification, after passing the first year with a distinction.
In her spare time, Sam is a keen beginner aerialist, learning hoop and pole fitness. She enjoys travelling and being outdoors.
Hannah Weston
Company Strategy & Support
Hannah joined Box Twenty during 2022 working within the finance department.
Simon Troote
Principal Engineer
Simon is an Incorporated Engineer and has a Bachelor of Engineering degree, with honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He joins us with over 35 years’ experience within the building services industry.
He brings a wealth of experience working within a variety of sectors. He has most recently worked within levels of education, residential, commercial and health sectors, with particular experience of refurbishment projects within live environments.
He works closely with clients and stakeholders from project inception to completion tailoring best value design solutions to achieve the aspirations of each project. He is enthusiastic and naturally takes a collaborative approach to all projects he is involved with and is passionate in delivering good quality, robust and cost-effective solutions through all stages of the design and construction process and whole lifecycle maintenance strategy.
Andrew Truswell
Principal Engineer
Andrew has a BEng(Hons) in Electrical Engineering and a MSc in Sustainable Electrical Building Services. He has over 12 years design experience.
He has worked for a control panel manufacturer, an electrical utility provider, and for both international and small-scale building services consultancies. He has experience in a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, public services, education, residential, commercial, and light industrial. Andrew is an advanced user of a variety of software tools including AutoCAD, DiaLUX and Amtech, and is also a Revit user.
Andrew enjoys a wide variety of outdoor pursuits and is trying to maintain his fitness alongside entertaining his young family and renovating a house.
James Schofield
Senior Engineer
James is a Senior Mechanical Engineer who has over six years’ experience as a building services engineer across a range of industry sectors.
James has worked across a variety of building types from healthcare, offices to educational buildings. During this time, he has worked across all the design stages of a project taking buildings from a blank piece of paper through to client handover. This full project experience ensure he focuses on buildability and client experience from the beginning of projects.
Over the course of his career James has gained detailed knowledge and experience of the latest HAVC engineering design standards and practices.
Outside of the office, James is a keen rugby player and enjoys watching as much sport as possible.
Lino Vieira
Senior Engineer
Lino joins Box Twenty with over 10 years work experience in design development and construction of Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) systems having had the opportunity to work on a variety of projects within the Retail, Commercial, Healthcare, Transportation, Industrial and Education sectors.
Lino is an enthusiastic Senior Mechanical Engineer that does not only have extensive experience in HVAC Installations but also has experience in Compressed Air Systems, Laboratory Gas, Dental Vacuum, Medical Gas Systems, Domestics and Public Health systems.
He is also competent in the following software packages; Building Simulation Software (Carrier HAP), Revit MEP, Navisworks, AutoCAD and Microsoft Office packages.
Luke Chang
BIM/ CAD Manager
Luke has 10 years’ experience with a Revit and AutoCAD background. With his new found love for BIM he has recently joined the Box Twenty team.
As the only BIM & CAD support in the team, he has worked on projects ranging from residential, healthcare to commercial. With skills in AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks, BIM Co-ordination and great passion for standards he is vital to the team.
Luke is a great fan of cycling and camping and when he is not out in nature he takes on his second role as the office joker very seriously to keep the teams spirts high.
George Sigalas
Building Physics Team Leader
George has over 12 years’ experience as a building services engineer and building physics specialist and has worked in a wide range of industry sectors, including Commercial, Residential, Healthcare, Education and mixed use projects of all scales.
Following graduation from AUTH University in Greece with a BEng in Mechanical Engineering, George moved to the Netherlands to study an MSc course in sustainability for the built environment. After graduating with honours, he continued working in the Netherlands for 3 years as a building services engineer, before moving to Bristol in 2014 to work for an international multidisciplinary consultancy as a Building Physics Engineer.
Patrycja Moorcroft
Engineer
Patrycja has 4 years’ experience in Building Services Engineering. She has been involved in designing building services from conception to completion.
These included heating, ventilation, water services and above ground drainage. Projects have included residential buildings, schools, universities, offices and hospitals.
Patrycja also has experience in writing mechanical specification using NBS software, conducting site surveys and client meetings. She is experienced in TAS software to design thermal models and calculate thermal performance, CO2 emission rates, energy consumption in compliance with BREEAM, TM52 and Building regulations Approval.
Mohamed Eldeib
Electrical Engineer
Mohamed is an Electrical Engineer whose spent over 5 years working in site management and technical office coordination.
He brings a wealth of experience gained in a variety of Residential, Commercial, Leisure and Nuclear Power projects both abroad and in the UK. Mohamed recently moved here from Egypt and has chosen Box Twenty as the place to further develop his career.
Outside of work, he enjoys a busy social life, training at the gym and spending time with his family.
Ben Dawson
Year in Industry Placement
Ben joined Box Twenty in September 2023 as a year in industry placement student, studying Engineering Design (MEng) at the University of Bristol.
He specialises in mechanical engineering and has completed various projects at university including a gantry crane prototype, deployable mobile solar panel platform and outside of university has helped build a pottery studio outside of university.
Ben has proficient knowledge of various CAD packages, including Autodesk Fusion 360, AutoCAD LT 2024, Cura, Bluebeam Revu and is currently learning how to use IESVE, focusing on Apache models and MacroFlo packages.
Inna Belozerova
Engineer
Inna has joined Box Twenty in October 2020 as a Graduate Engineer after studying Architecture and Environmental Engineering (BEng) at the University of the West of England.
She is particularly interested in the near/net-zero energy building concept as well as the design of intuitive, efficient, and sustainable building services.
Inna is skilled in architectural visualisation and relevant software, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Cinema 4D, and SketchUp, as well as some engineering modelling tools like AutoCAD, DIALux, IES, and a bit of Revit.
In her free time, Inna enjoys playing piano, sketching outdoors, cycling, and going for open water swims.
Norris Lee
Electrical Engineer
Norris has joined Box Twenty as an Electrical Engineer with over 15 years experience as an electrically biased building services design engineer and Project Manager.
Norris has worked on both consultancy and contractor side, she is confident with site, client and design team meetings and has also delivered projects from an electrical perspective.
Kausarat Oloko
PA/Team Administrator
Kausarat joined Box Twenty in December 2023 as PA/Team Administrator
Kausarat recently completed her Masters Degree in Information Management at the University of Bristol and brings with her a wealth of administrative experience.
In her free time she enjoys reading, learning ineteresting facts online, and watching movies
Gryff Parish
Graduate Engineer
Gryff has joined Box Twenty in September 2022 as a Graduate Engineer, after studying Mechanical Engineering MEng(Hons) at Cardiff University.
Throughout his degree he has been pivotal in the successful completion of various projects, including designing Mechanical and Electrical Services for use in hospital environment, Data analysis using MATLAB to observe and analyse the optimal working conditions of an offshore wind turbine and the theorized design and calculations for a Martian “solar plane” to observe the potential existence of lighting on mars.
Gryff considers himself a competent powerlifter and has plans to compete at national level within 2/3 years.
Jolie Farid
Graduate Engineer
Jolie joins Box Twenty as a graduate engineer, having gained a BEng in Architecture and Enviromental Engineering at the University of the West of England
She is keen to design architecturally pleasing net zero and sustainable buildings through the use of efficient building and engineeering systems.
In her free time, Jolie enjoys exploring new cities and adventures.