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Personnel
John Dalton (Managing Director)
With over 20 years experience in the tension structure industry, John joined Base Structures Ltd in 2002 as Managing Director.

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Jon Morris (Head of Production, Director)
Jon joined Base in 2002 as a director of production. He has over 12 years experience in PVC & PTFE fabrication.

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Andy Traynor (Head of Installations, Director)
Andy has over 15 years experience in the tensile fabric structures industry and was previously Installation Manager for Architen Landrell Ltd.

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Mark Smith (Head of Projects, Director)
Agent Smith joined Base structures in July of 2002 as the Head of Projects and was made a Director in November 2002. He has over 9 years experience in tensile fabric and 27 years overall in the construction industry.

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Andy Chiverton (Project Manager)
Andy joined Base in July 2003. He has over 7 years experience of installing tensile fabric structures. Since joining Base he has developed his skills to become a Project Manager. These new skills cross over well with his site based background.

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Russell George (Project Manager & Safety Manager)
With over 15 years experience installing and managing fabric structure projects, Russell joined us in March 2008 as a project manager. He also has extensive experience in Health and Safety enabling him to fulfil his role as Safety Manager.

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Kevin Hemmings (Architect)
Kevin has over 20 years experience in the tensile fabric industry previously being Sales and Marketing Director with Architen Landrell. He joined Base in May 2006.

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Francis Buchanan (Project Manager)
Francis recently joined us to work as a project manager and has been in the tensile fabric industry for seven years.

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Duncan Baird
Duncan Baird (Installations Manager)
Dunc joined us from ArchitenLandrell where he was the senior site manager to become our Installations manager.

Carl Broderick
Carl Broderick (Senior Site Supervisor)
Carl joined us as a rigger in Sept 2005, bringing with him years of experience in the installation of fabric structures.

Jason Porter (Site Supervisor)
Jason is one of our IRATA L3 qualified site supervisors. He has 12 years experience in rope access and has been working in the fabric industry for 5 years.

Nick Crocker (Site Supervisor)
Nick is a rigger and site supervisor with over 10years experience in the industry.

Steve Rutter (Site Supervisor)
Steve joined us in August 2009 as a rope access site supervisor with over 5 years of experience in the industry.

Paul Thomas
Paul 'Jaffa' Thomas (Site Supervisor)
After much hard work on site for us recently as a subbie, we finally decided to give Paul a real job! He has extensive experience of installing tensile fabric structures and has joined our installation team as a Site Supervisor / Rigger.

Mark Backwell (Rigger)


Piotr Kryzsiek (Rigger)
Polish Piotr used to work for Base temporarily but did such a good job we decided to employ him permanently. Piotr also has a good eye for photography, having taken some great pictures of our recent projects.

Evan Price (Design Manager)
Having grown up with tensile fabric structures, Evan joined us April 2008 from South Africa to take over as our Design Manager.

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Mark White (Senior Design Technician)
Mark has over 20 years experience in the industry. He joined Base in March 2002 and as well as patterning, assists in the production and production management of fabric structures.

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Jenna Mitchell (Design Technician)
Jenna joined us in November 2007, she has a degree in product design and has joined Base to gain experience in all aspects of structure design.

Adam Nowadczyk
Adam Nowadczyk (Design Technician)
'Guitar man' Adam having gained a lot of experience with us in the fabric manufacturing department he has now moved into the Design team to train as a draftsperson and devlop his skills.

Bryan Schopf (Design Technician)
Canadian Bryan, recently joined our expanding design team. With a degree in Architecture & 4yrs previous experience, Bryan is also currently enrolled in the Master of Membrane Structures at Anhalt University.

Rachel Winterton
Rachel Winterton (Personnel & Admin Manager)
Rachel has nearly 10 years admin experience and is now training in Personnel to fulfill her new role of running the administration and personnel.

Heidi Waters
Heidi Waters (Administrator/Receptionist)
Heidi joined us in Nov 2009, to work as our Receptionist and Administrator. A very crucial role as she also has the responsibility of organising work events & staff outings! See our news page for recent events...

Russell Smith (Finance Manager)
With 7 years accounts experience and AAT qualifications Russ joined us in January 2006 as an accounts administrator and is now Finance Manager.

Raj Kumari
Raj Kumari (Finance Assistant)
Raj joined in Feb 2008 to be our Finance Assistant. A very important lady as she pays the bills!

Warwick White
Warwick White (Senior Technician)
Warwick had been working in the tensile fabric industry for over 10 years when he joined Base in 2003. He is is our quartermaster and anchorman.

Mark Webster
Mark Webster 'Webbo' (Workshop Manager)
Mark has over 10 years experince in installing fabric canopies and has joined us in August 2006 to run the workshop.

Peter May (Maintenance Operative)
Recent recruit Peter has been doing a great job re-painting our outside rails, as well as keeping the place tidy and in good working order!

Derek Brighty
Derek Brighty (Factory Manager)
Derek joined us in 2003 bringing with him 7 years of experience in the tensile fabric industry. When not at work Derek can be found sunning himself on Turkish beaches or riding his bike!

John Shail
John Shail (Production Foreman)
John joined us in July 2002. Now with over 7 years experience in the manufacture of tensile fabric structures he is production foreman.

Mark Filer (Loft Fabricator)
Mark has recently joined the Company as a Trainee Loft Fabricator. When not watching Bristol Rovers or Liverpool you can find Mark out and about on his Mountain Bike.

Marek Jeremias (Loft Fabricator)
Marek joined us in early 2010 to work as a Loft Fabricator in the ever expanding team.

Sean Ryan (Trainee Loft Fabricator)
Sean joined Base earlier this year to work in the factory as a Trainee Loft Fabricator.

Gary Besnard
Gary Besnard (Leading Hand)
Gary (aka Chipper) joined us in 2002 with 6 years experience in the manufacture of tensile fabric structures.

Lee Loveridge (Plotter/Cutter/Team Leader)
Lee has just joined the Company as a Team Leader looking after the Plotter cutters and Fabric Stores. In his free time Lee is assistant manager and qualified FA coach to Whitchurch under 8’s football team.

Nerijus Arlauskas (Leading Hand)
Nerijus joined us in June 2005 as a trainee. He has now become an established member of the fabric manufacturing team.

Robertas Sladkevicius
Robertas Sladkevicius (Plotter Cutter Operator)
Robertas joined us in May 2006 to train as a plotter cutter operator.

Sue Clark
Sue Clark (Loft Fabricator/ Stores person)
Sue joined Base in 2003 as a sewing technician. She has over 30 years experience in sewing and dressmaking.

Mariusz Rowinski
Mariusz Rowinski (Loft Fabricator & Maintenance Operative)
Mariusz is a multi skilled production worker from an engineering background.

Dave Reeder
Dave Reeder (Print Finishing Operations Manager)
Dave was looking for a professional change in direction and new challenges. He joined us in Sept 2007 to look after our print team.

Tomas Akamavicius
Tomas Akamavicius (Loft Fabricator)
Tom is an experienced PTFE worker and joined us in Jan 2007 to be part of the manufacturing team.

Dave Williamson
Dave Williamson (Loft Fabricator)
"The biker" Dave joined us in July 2007 and is experienced in banner and keder manufacturing.

Steve Alderman
Steve Alderman (Deputy Print Operations Manager)
With many years experience in the print industry Steve was well placed to take on this unique position in the company of running our new printing machines.

Ben Luger
Ben Luger (Pre Press Operator)
Ben joined us early 2009 to help with the expansion of the printing department.

Byron Pardhy-Avis (Print Machine Operator)
Byron has recently joined the Company as a trainee Print and pre-press operator. When not working Byron likes to spend time riding his motorbike and attending live music concerts.