Michael Hammill: 2019-2020 Current Master or the Guild
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Michael is a 64 year old Chartered Surveyor, living and working in York as a property developer. He came to York in 1986 and his first job was with Stansfield’s Estate Agents as a surveyor. After a few years he joined Chessingham Estates as Development Director which developed several large commercial developments in York, including The Kings Pool which is still York’s largest office development.
After that he formed his own property development company, Yorbuild Ltd, and through joint ventures with others built the 100 bedroom Piccadilly Hotel 53 (recently sold to Holiday Inn), 410 student units for St Johns College, Grade A offices at Heworth Green, GP Surgeries and shops. More recently he has concentrated on the luxury end of the housing sector having built and lived in iconic Zero House on Clifton Green, completed The Kings Guinea a large new house which has just sold for £1.8m and The Black House in Fulford which will be appearing in a new TV series. |
Michael is happily married to Erica and has two daughters, Emma and Sophie. His interests are family, design and staying healthy. To this end in July he will be cycling from Lands’ End to John O’Groats.
Paul Deamer: 2018-2019
On the 24 April 2018 Paul Deamer was installed as the new master of the York guild of building at there A.G.M. held at Bedern Hall, York.
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I started my building career as a fresh faced 16 year old when i signed my indentures and started my 4 year apprenticeship with the Dept of the environment { D.O.E.} during that period I worked on Fountains Abbey, Kirkham priory and many more, gaining my city & guilds craft and advanced.
I have continued to develop and achieved several additional qualifications, Cert / Dip site management, Btec / Hnc Heritage management, Preparing to teach lifelong sector and my T.A.Q.A. Assessors Award. During my 40+ years in the construction industry I have worked on Abby's, Priory's, Church's, Cathedrals, New builds, Barn conversions, Roofing and much more. |
Alan Mitchell: 2017-2018
On 25th April 2017, Alan Mitchell was installed as Master of the York Guild of Building.
With over thirty years practical engineering experience, Alan commenced his career with a civil engineering contractor, undertaking pipeline and tunnelling construction within the UK. He then progressed onto steel work design; working for some of the country’s largest fabricators and spent five years with a structural engineering software company, in the design and analysis section.
He established maltech in 2000, to provide consulting civil and structural engineering services for both domestic and commercial clients; these now include Diocesan boards, Charitable Trusts and Estates. The consultancy handles a variety of projects: from surveys and simple beam designs to large scale buildings and total building solutions, where maltech has been responsible for the whole design, including project management.
Alan’s skills avoid ‘over-engineered’ proposals, resulting in attractive and economical schemes for the client. As a result, maltech has worked on specialist steel detailing for the iconic Sage Centre, Heathrow T5 as well as buildings in Iceland, Ukraine and the Philippines.
With over thirty years practical engineering experience, Alan commenced his career with a civil engineering contractor, undertaking pipeline and tunnelling construction within the UK. He then progressed onto steel work design; working for some of the country’s largest fabricators and spent five years with a structural engineering software company, in the design and analysis section.
He established maltech in 2000, to provide consulting civil and structural engineering services for both domestic and commercial clients; these now include Diocesan boards, Charitable Trusts and Estates. The consultancy handles a variety of projects: from surveys and simple beam designs to large scale buildings and total building solutions, where maltech has been responsible for the whole design, including project management.
Alan’s skills avoid ‘over-engineered’ proposals, resulting in attractive and economical schemes for the client. As a result, maltech has worked on specialist steel detailing for the iconic Sage Centre, Heathrow T5 as well as buildings in Iceland, Ukraine and the Philippines.
Sally Walker: 2016 - 2017
Born in north London the same year as the York Guild of Building was founded Sally qualified as an architect in1980 and was elected as a Corporate Member of the RIBA. Sally has worked in primarily in the UK and settled in North Yorkshire with her first full time job at British Rail Architects 1978-1989. Sally was Research Fellow at the University ofYork from 1992 - 1997 developing post-occupancy building studies and building user research at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the King’s Manor.
In 1996 Sally set up Native Architects a practice specialising in buildings with a light CO2 footprint. More recently Sally achieved a Masters in Building Archaeology at the University of York Department of Archaeology where Sally also contributes to the Conservation Studies Masters Course on the conservation of C20 Heritage. Her architectural practice and academic work led to RIBA Conservation Accreditation.
In addition to her historic buildings expertise Sally has led the practice to achieve an exemplary standard in the design and construction of environmentally sustainable buildings that respect their context. Winner of numerous awards Native Architects won their second York Design Award and John Shannon Conservation Award in 2015 for work in central York. Sally was elected a Court member in the York Guild of Building in 2014 chairing the Programme Committee and Senior Warden in 2015.
Outside of work Sally enjoys gardening, is an amateur painter, visits the Southern Hebrides regularly where she and husband Chris have built a low carbon house in hempcrete. Sally is member of The Twentieth Century Society which exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards, a member of York Artworkers and the Hagges Wood Trust, raising tomorrow’s ancient woodland. Sally has three grown up sons, three Border terriers and chickens. In 2016 Native will celebrate 20 years of innovative architectural practice inYork.
In May 2016 Sally was installed as Master of York Guild of Building. This one year post follows a two year supervisory period working in the Court of Assistants.
In 1996 Sally set up Native Architects a practice specialising in buildings with a light CO2 footprint. More recently Sally achieved a Masters in Building Archaeology at the University of York Department of Archaeology where Sally also contributes to the Conservation Studies Masters Course on the conservation of C20 Heritage. Her architectural practice and academic work led to RIBA Conservation Accreditation.
In addition to her historic buildings expertise Sally has led the practice to achieve an exemplary standard in the design and construction of environmentally sustainable buildings that respect their context. Winner of numerous awards Native Architects won their second York Design Award and John Shannon Conservation Award in 2015 for work in central York. Sally was elected a Court member in the York Guild of Building in 2014 chairing the Programme Committee and Senior Warden in 2015.
Outside of work Sally enjoys gardening, is an amateur painter, visits the Southern Hebrides regularly where she and husband Chris have built a low carbon house in hempcrete. Sally is member of The Twentieth Century Society which exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards, a member of York Artworkers and the Hagges Wood Trust, raising tomorrow’s ancient woodland. Sally has three grown up sons, three Border terriers and chickens. In 2016 Native will celebrate 20 years of innovative architectural practice inYork.
In May 2016 Sally was installed as Master of York Guild of Building. This one year post follows a two year supervisory period working in the Court of Assistants.
Past Masters 1954 - 2017
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1954 & 1955 Sir Peter Shepherd, C.B.E
1956 Mr E. Firth 1957 Mr J. Wilson 1958 Mr L. Whiteman 1959 Mr W.H. Shouksmith 1960 Mr D.A. Leckenby 1961 Mr D. Smith 1962 Rev. G. Dickinson 1963 Mr D.B. Holman 1964 Mr R.T. Fawdington 1965 Mr J.K. Keighley 1966 Mr K. Denham 1967 Mr I.V. Winduss 1968 Mr Mr J. Gawthorpe 1969 Mr J.L. Cable 1970 Mr S.J. Steel 1971 Mr M.E. Moisley 1972 Mr L.E. Watson 1973 Mr R.L. Flude 1974 Mr H.E. Langham 1975 Mr J. Silk 1976 Mr J.R. Hargreaves 1977 Mr J.R. Legge 1978 Mr E.M. Driffield 1979 Mr K. Groom 1980 Mr A.V. Heppell 1981 Mr D.K. Davidson 1982 Mr G.S. Edwards 1983 Mr W.H. Bonney 1984 Mr B.J. Atkinson 1985 Mr E. Howland 1986 Mr C.M. Foster |
1987 Mr G.G.F. Tulley
1988 Mr J.D. Bellerby 1989 Mr D.F. Parker 1990 Mr G.N. Blades 1991 Mr K. Garland 1992 Mr D.H. Baker 1993 Mr P. Mawer 1994 Mr R. Thompson 1995 Mr A.J. Neal 1996 Mr P.A. Summers 1997 Mr N.R. Shouksmith 1998 Mr T.B. Wilson 1999 Mr J.R. Niklaus 2000 Mr R. Parkin 2001 Mr C. Young 2002 Prof. P. Dale 2003 Mr A. Burley 2004 Mr E. Howland 2005 Mr P. Deamer 2006 Mr S. Bielby 2007 Mr J. Oakley 2008 Mr A. Garland 2009 Mr S. Cluderay 2010 Mr S. Owen 2011 Mr D. Wilson 2012 Mr J.R. Niklaus 2013 Mrs Rebecca Thompson 2014 Mr N.R. Shouksmith 2015 Rev. Chris Cullwick 2016 Mrs Sally Walker 2017 Mr Alan Mitchell 2018 Mr Paul Deamer |