Nick Milestone. BSc. BSc (Hons) MSc. Is the Chief Operating Officer, for Mercer Mass Timber, Director of Wood Works USA and former Chairman of the Timber Research and Development Association UK (TRADA) and Vice Chair of Timber Development UK.

Prior to joining Mercer Mass Timber LLC, Nick was a main board Director of Remagin (Sigmat) UK Ltd. A hybrid Light Gauge Steel (CFS) and Mass Timber modular building system solution provider.

Nick previously held the position of Senior Vice President of the US Softwood Lumber board, Director for Mass Timber and Hybrid Solutions for Katerra Inc, North America and the Director for Off-Site and Innovation for the Wm Hare Group (UK, UAE and Singapore) developing building systems in Mass Timber, Structural Steel and load bearing Light Gauge Steel structures.

Following a brief spell working in Singapore for the Tiong Seng Construction Group in 2017. Nick was with the Bowmer & Kirkland construction group from 2002 to 2017 and was the Managing Director of B & K Structures Ltd, the UK’s largest and most successful structural steel and mass timber design and construction business, developing sustainable and low carbon building systems.

The learnings and innovations gathered from 39 years’ experience in the UK and international ‘off-site’ construction industry have helped develop a successful hybrid construction business utilizing the key components of structural steel, glulam, cross laminated timber, structural timber cassettes and light gauge steel framing technology for the residential, education, leisure, commercial and retail markets delivering over 350 landmark projects for Blue Chip Clients.

Through TRADA and in consultation with Industry heads such as Arup, Nick led the UK’s first ‘National Structural Timber Specification’ covering the design, manufacture and installation tolerances for solid wood construction, other key publications include The design and performance of Cross Laminated Timber and Hybrid Structures in construction.

Nick also led and chaired the working committee for the Mass Engineered Timber Handbook for Singapore, developed in conjunction with the BCA, building construction authority, Singapore

Nick has been in the construction industry since 1986, starting off as a trainee quantity surveyor progressing through to senior quantity surveyor / senior construction manager / construction director / managing director.

Notable accolades and awards include.

Winner of the UK National business award for innovation in mass timber / hybrid building systems – 2008

Finalist at the European business awards for innovation – 2009

Judge and award winner for the UK national structural timber awards

Advisor to.

Project Director – Nanyang Technical University, Mass Timber Structure, Singapore

Fellow of the Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, UK

Committee member of the Council for Tall Buildings in Urban Habitat (CTBUH) Chicago, USA

Build X Studio, A low cost affordable and social housing build system in mass engineered timber, Nairobi, Kenya

US Softwood lumber Board, Senior VP