John Dorrington Ward

BSc BS IHBC SPAB Lethaby Scholar
Director, Gloucestershire branch

After training at London's Southbank Polytechnic and working in private practice as a Chartered Building Surveyor, John was awarded the SPAB Lethaby Scholarship in 1988 and has been involved in the repair of old buildings ever since. He is the fourth successive generation of his family to be involved in historic buildings, his great-grandfather Henry Ward, grandfather Frank Ward OBE and father Ian Ward having designed and repaired many important landmarks of the UK's and Commonwealth's built heritage.

After a period as Technical Secretary the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), he joined the staff of the University of York IOAAS Building Conservation Studies course and set up the SPAB Northern Office. He subsequently created his own second “scholarship” as a journeyman working on building conservation sites around the UK before joining Alan Baxter and Associates, Consulting Engineers, in London.

In 1995 John set up Ward & Co with the mission of becoming the leading quality building contractors and period building conservators in the South of England.

A founder member of the Building Limes Forum, John Dorrington Ward was Hon. Secretary and Editor of its journal Lime News. He has contributed to the work of various committees including the RICS Building Conservation Committee and is consultant to the Gloucester Diocesan Advisory Committee.

He regularly lectures on building conservation and runs training courses for the Woodchester Mansion Trust. He is an external examiner for the RICS/College of Estate Management diploma course in Building Conservation.

Membership:

• Consultant to the Gloucester Diocesan Advisory Committee
• Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC)
• The Building Limes Forum
• Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)