OUR TEAM
Alastair Simpson
Alastair Simpson is a professionally registered Quantity Surveyor with 25 years of experience in a wide range of construction projects in both the Public and Private sectors. Alastair served on and chaired the Western Cape Chapter of the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS), served on the National Board of the ASAQS and been a committee member of the Joint Construction Practice Committee (JPCC).
Alastair is a director at Shevel & Simpson Quantity Surveyors. He is currently serving as the APES+ secretary.
Lynnet Chitungo
Lynnet is a registered professional land surveyor and GIS Specialist with over 12 years’ experience. She has full range of land surveying experience which includes consulting and performing surveys for a wide variety of land tenure and land use requirements, boundary delineation such as relocations, subdivisions, consolidations, township surveys, servitudes, sectional title schemes; town planning applications. She is currently serving as the APES+ treasurer.
SAGC (PLS 1465-D) & Pr.M.SAGI.1231
Stef Naude
Stef Naudé is a professionally registered planner and has Masters degrees in Planning and Engineering Management from UCT. He has 28 years of experience in a wide range of transport planning and traffic engineering related projects, with a particular interest in the dynamics at play where the built environment streams meet.
Stef is a director at HHO in the Traffic Engineering and Transportation Department.
Stef is the current chair of APES+
Matthew Gray
Building on the twelve years of divers experience gained both as an undergraduate and then as a postgraduate and in prominent practices locally in Cape Town, and Stellenbosch, and over seas in London and Oxford, Matthew Gray returned to South Africa and foundered Matthew Gray Architects & Urban Designers in 1992. In 1994 Matthew Gray Architects & Urban Designers was incorporated as a trading name for GrayMatter cc and has been in continual operation since then.
Matthew Gray himself has therefore, to date, accrued 40 years of experience, 28 years of which has been in running his own practice in South Africa. In this period both the nature and range of work undertaken has been varied and extensive. Apart from working on numerous residential projects, individual luxury houses, housing schemes, sectional title apartments, he has also worked on shopping centres, multi use office developments, community facilities and as an Urban Designer been involved in the urban design of a number of proposed major redevelopments, some being complete new towns. The bulk of this work has been handled within his own practice, but has also been done in association with other practices or as a consultant to other practices.
Ingrid Eggert
Ingrid is a qualified and registered Environmental Assessment Practitioner with 12 years’ experience in the industry. She specialises in applying international environmental best practice for projects in the design, construction and operational phases through regulatory EIA processes, environmental compliance monitoring and auditing as well as development of Environmental Management Systems. She joined APES+ as a committee member in September 2019.
IAIAsa (2010) and EAPASA (2019)
Andrew Goodwin
Currently serving on the APES committee events portfolio, Andrew is a registered professional Architect, and former APES committee chair.
After starting out as a student model builder for the CTICC in 2001, he progressed to architectural assistant at Arup Associates’ London office, before returning to Cape Town to complete his B.Arch at UCT in 2004. He has been in commercial practice ever since, working on construction projects ranging from adaptive re-use of existing structures and heritage interventions to education, residential and mixed use developments.
Andrew is currently an associate at mlh architects & planners.