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Trench Farrow has recruited Tony Bowen to lead its project management operation in London. Bowen has flown in from South Africa, where he was managing director and co-founder of PM consultancy Barrow Projects and a spin-off company, Bowen Forbes Associates.

Bowen has been assigned to some of Trench Farrow’s high profile projects, such as the construction of new premises for IPC Magazines.

His past clients include South African financial giant ABSA Bank, state telecoms company Telkom, Unilever South Africa and DeBeers.

Bowen, a South African, holds an MSc DIC in concrete structures & technology from Imperial College London.

Gleeds boosts its legal team

Gleeds is growing its litigation and dispute solution team with two new people. Damian Wilkinson joins as an associate director based in Leeds and Andrew Rees becomes a senior consultant in Bristol.

Staff shake up at PRP

PRP Architects has a new look project services team following the retirement of the division's head Simon Kaplinsky. After launching the team ten years ago Kaplinsky, a director, will now work around two days a week as a consultant to PRP.

Philip Murphy succeeds him as group director of project services. Until now he was a senior PM in the team specialising in urban regeneration and mixed use developments. He project managed the Globe theatre and ran PRP’s work on the Edmonton regeneration project, a partnership between housing associations, the local authority and a national housebuilder to regenerate a large housing estate and the commercial centre of Edmonton. Murphy joined PRP in 1997.

He will be supported by a management team comprising associate directors Sarah Harrison, Philip Pamment and Nigel Collier. Harrison, freshly recruited from Notting Hill Housing Trust, specialises in urban regeneration, public realm and stakeholder consultation and involvement.