Geraldine Hallifax

Senior Architect

Geraldine Joined Fleet in August 2024 having spent 7 years with Hawkins Brown on the redevelopment of the Printworks in Canada Water into an innovative mixed-use commercial and cultural destination,  Hallsville Quarter Phase 3: A mixed use retail quarter delivering 620 new homes, shops, restaurants, workspace and public realm as part of the Canning Town Masterplan and the DfMA toolkit, pattern book of flat type products for a housing developer client.

Educated at Nottingham and London Met, Geraldine joins fleet 4 years post part 3 registration bringing a wealth of experience in housing and hospitality to the Fleet team.

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Amy Hiley

Architect & Associate

Amy joined Fleet in March 2024, after working in the social housing sector for more than 10 years. During this time, she specialised in designing and managing complex medium and large-scale mixed-use and community-led projects on sensitive and constrained sites, with a particular focus on low-energy and passivhaus design standards. Amy is adept at bringing together design proposals for estate renewal, housing schemes and masterplans covering all project stages, from conception to completion, for both public and private sector clients, where she values the delivery of quality design with a social purpose through a collaborative design approach.

Her experience also extends across leading smaller-scale residential and garden design schemes, and Amy’s passion for horticulture has led her to broaden her knowledge and obtain additional qualifications, furthering her interest in the dynamic relationship between landscape and architectural design.

Ruairi McCance

Senior Architect

Ruairi McCance is a qualified architect & joined Fleet in Jan 2024. He previously spent 5 years working in the high end private residential sector designing modern extensions to Victorian terraced houses in London with a strong emphasis on materiality, texture and light and shadow. Due to the often tight spatial constraints Ruairi is well versed in fine detailing and enjoys finding technical solutions for complex problems. Before this he worked on modern extensions to grade 2 listed theatres.

Due to the relatively quick build times of private housing Ruairi has worked on many projects with an abundance of on site experience often from concept to completion. He loves drawing (by hand and computer) and always has a sketchbook and colouring pencils on his desk.

He is an avid reader . He is also a keen sportsman and has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and a blue belt in Judo. He likes to combine these hobbies by collecting bizarre and obscure books on martial arts and niche exercise books.

Jian Jun Lim

Architectural Designer, M.Arch.

JJ joined the Fleet team in the summer of 2023. He completed his Part II at the University of East London with a distinction and recently completed his Part III at the University of Westminster.

Prior to joining Fleet, JJ’s experience centered on high-end residential projects, involving works on contemporary extensions, renovation of private homes and listed properties in London. He also gained work experience during his year out in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, contributing to projects of various scales across hospitality, schools, and master planning.

JJ enjoys creating mixed media installations and actively participates in public installation initiatives both in London and Malaysia. He also takes part in architectural competitions during his free time. His recent work came in as runner-up for the Micro-Housing International Competition 2022 and was featured on the Impact Design website.

He is an avid gym-goer and a dragon boater.

Suren Grigoryan

Finance Director

Suren Grigoryan, our Finance Director, brings over 20 years of experience working in various industries. He has a proven track record of supporting owner-managed business to establishing strong financial foundations. He specialises in boosting profitability, streamlining processes, and budgeting, making him asset in Fleet team.

Suren is an ACCA qualified accountant, with Executive MBA degree from London Business School. He has completed his PhD degree in Finance in 2006, specialising in Budgeting.

Val Tse

Senior Architect and Interior Designer

Val Tse is a ARB qualified architect with interior architecture specialism and joined the Fleet Team in 2023 to lead retail, hospitality interiors projects.

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Agata Dixon-Smith

Agata joined fleet architects Margate office in February 2023. She started her career in a London AJ100 practice over 15 years ago. She has since worked for studios across London and the South East on projects ranging from high-end residential schemes to hostels for the homeless and across all stages of the design process.

Outside of commercial practice she has conducted research into UK-based art interventions in public space for the Association of Polish Architects. In 2009 she co-founded Kosi Architects, winning the British Home Awards competition: Lifetime homes, lifetime neighbourhoods. 

Agata is an Associate Lecturer and Culture and Community Studio Lead for MA Architecture and Interior Design Courses at the Canterbury School of Architecture, University for the Creative Arts.

Daniel Collinson

Daniel Collinson has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having completed his studies at the Manchester School of Architecture. Daniel has previously worked on a series of refurbishment project and has a keen interest in the re-use and the adaptability of existing buildings to tackle the carbon footprint on the construction industry. Daniel is passionate about the marine environment and has conducted research for his thesis project on forward thinking construction methods and materials to develop an architectural proposition to recycle ocean plastic and waste.

Daniel was born in Newcastle but has spent much of his life in Asia before moving to the United Kingdom for his architectural education. Daniel hopes to gain valuable experience and skills at Fleet and has ambitions to become a fully qualified architect.

Maees Hadi

Maees Hadi  has joined the Fleet Architects Team in the role of RIBA Part 2 Architectural Designer having previously worked with social housing specialist Henly Halebrown and studied at the Royal College of Art.

Maees’  interest in architecture is influenced by research and spatial design that can guide us to develop better spaces for people. Maees wants to develop her skills in socially-led projects and be more involved in work that serves the community. Maees Hadi is an architectural designer, researcher and a filmmaker. She has a multidisciplinary practice and engages in research topics such as political identity, representation and the migrant subject which has developed from her own studies and experiences. Maees was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1993, however grew up in Sweden and later moved to London where she started her academic studies and later work. Maees holds an MA architectural degree from the Royal College of Art, London and a History of Art certificate from Birkbeck University, London.

Maees work has recently been shown in Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021 and screened in Christies and at the Design Film Festival by curating contemporary design in collaboration with the Design Museum in London.

Benedict Spry

Benedict Spry, Part II Architectural Assistant

Ben Spry is a speaker, architectural designer and environmental campaigner. Having worked extensively on community-led projects, Ben uses his skills in critical design to drive positive change within the built environment. Ben has a wealth of expertise in co-design and has facilitated several consultation sessions for housing projects in London.

Ben is a co-founder of Power Out of Restriction, a social enterprise that focuses on the development of communities through the elevation of young people. POoR sees the power of the younger generation and seeks to get young voices heard. Through knowledge sharing and design, POoR aims to bring together a wealth of demographics, and empower the youth of today.

Ben Has re-joined Fleet having previously worked with us after his Part 1 where he was also taught by Jaime Bishop and Richard Henson at LSBU.