Geoff Haslam worked alongside Gardiner & Theobald as project manager for a series of schools under the £15bn BSF programme. Following “pathfinder” schemes at Filton and Melksham, the team were appointed to prepare the PFI bid process and sample schemes for Somerset. Having achieved success leading the multi-disciplinary design team for these projects Geoff was appointed by Ark Schools to lead their £260m Academy building programme. Working with architects such as Zaha Hadid, Amanda Levete, Ian Ritchie, the nine schools in the Ark programme were successfully completed.