Press Release

Two new directors join DEGW UK

DEGW welcomes two new directors, Paul Wheeler and Gillian Burgis.

Paul Wheeler has joined DEGW as Director of Strategy, to lead their public sector team. Paul is returning to DEGW after spending several years working for Land Securities Trillium (now Telereal Trillium). He brings extensive experience of working with public sector clients, helping them to get the most out of their estate both at portfolio level, through estates rationalisation programmes, and at the level of individual buildings, through workplace optimisation.

Paul is keen to use his experience and skills to help DEGW’s public sector clients meet the challenges posed by the current round of spending cuts, reducing costs and improving performance.

Gillian Burgis, previously at Pringle Brandon and more recently HOK North America, has joined DEGW as Director of Strategy and Design. Gillian is responsible for providing business development, integrated strategic design direction, project management, service delivery and operations management in DEGW’s UK-based offices. With extensive industry experience in corporate, commercial, public, institutional, retail and leisure projects, Gillian will ensure that clients receive outstanding service and design talent.

Gillian’s proven track record in the United Kingdom, Europe, US and Canada illustrates the exceptional strength she will bring to DEGW’s clients. Gillian is passionate about the business benefits that inspirational and effective design can facilitate, helping to synchronise people, place and performance at all scales – from an individual ergonomic work setting, to support individual work activities, to a global workplace and design strategy for the entire organisation.

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DEGW is a world-leading strategic consultancy with offices in Europe, the Americas, and Asia Pacific. DEGW’s international, award-winning practice is based on unrivalled user research, extensive experience in strategic design consulting and systematic evaluation of performance. DEGW focuses on the changing nature of working and learning at the scale of the workplace to the city. They apply the latest research about how organisations and technologies are changing to enable their clients to manage the resources of space and time with unprecedented effectiveness, enhance organisational performance and develop solutions that are flexible over time. In July 2009, DEGW merged with global construction consultancy Davis Langdon.