RESUME: TIMOTHY HOOKINS - ARCHITECT
Tim grew up in South Africa and studied architecture at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1976. After working for 2 years at the National Building Research Institute in Pretoria assisting with research on school construction, he migrated to England in 1978 and worked for a large firm of architects in London. He specialised in the design of schools and medium density housing.

In 1983 Tim migrated to Sydney. He joined Geoffrey Twibill and Associates, Architects, designing a large education building and working on many retirement housing projects.

In early 1985 Tim set up in private practice in Manly, working on residential projects from high-rise to renovations, also including some industrial work. One of his clients at that stage was Bill Handley. It soon became clear that producing Home Additions using "Design and Construct would evolve as the most effective and stable way forward.

RESUME: BILL HANDLEY, BUILDER
Bill Handley grew up in Avalon on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, the son of a stonemason/bricklayer. He had the opportunity to observe at first hand how the residential building industry operates from a tradesman's point of view.

In 1969 Bill started work in a Real Estate agent's office in Brookvale. The experience he gained there in administration and accounting has been a valuable foundation for his running of a construction firm. In 1973, he moved to another Real Estate firm which carried out renovations of residential units in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. Bill's role was the administration of the jobs, hands-on work and liaising with the outside architects.

This work grew to the point that Bill became an independent contractor, earning his Builders Licence in 1978. He turned his attention to winning work by tendering for jobs run by architects. In all, he worked for 26 different architects and has not fallen out with any of them!

In 1985 Bill took on Tim Hookins as an architectural consultant with a view to carrying out Design and Construction jobs. It soon became clear that this system had big advantages over other ways of having home additions built and at the beginning of 1987 a new company was formed with Bill and Tim as joint directors for the purpose of doing Design and Construct additions.
  
RICK WRAY, DIRECTOR OF NORTHERN BEACHES
CONSULTING ENGINEERS
Rick Wray is a member of the Institute of Engineers, The Institute of Steel Construction and the Institute of Concrete Construction. His expertise lies in Structural and Stormwater design and he carries out the site inspections and reports.
 
From 1980 to 1982, Rick worked as a Structural Design Engineer for the State Rail Authority. 1982 to 1991 saw him gaining experience with W.L. Meinhardt as Principal supervising Engineer and Brambles Ltd as project Manager on large capital projects. These included New Wharf facilities at Port Melbourne and Burnie, Tasmania from feasibility to handover.
 
In 1991, Rick set up his own consulting firm, R.G. Wray and Associates and soon after that he began his long association with Add-Style Home Additions, doing site inspections with Tim Hookins and then producing structural designs and later on doing the inspections which he continues to do to this day.
 
In 1997 he merged his practice with Stuart McGeadie's under the new banner of Northern Beaches Consulting Engineers. In 2001 they moved to new premises in Dee Why and they now have 5 Structural Engineers and all the necessary support staff. 

BEN EGGLETON
Ben started with the firm in 1992 working as an apprentice with his father Steve. Ben immediately showed promise as a carpenter and manager and soon after registered for his Clerk of works ticket. In 1998 he passed his Clerk of Works examination and became a licensed builder in his own right. In 2000, Ben stared his own construction team and has been operating that way with Add-Style ever since.

MATT STUBBING
Matt commenced working with Add-Style as a carpenter working with a larger team. In date??? Matt became one of our team leaders.
 
THE TRADESMEN
We have a number of tradesmen teams each experienced in the construction of first floor additions, often with the owners still in residence. We co-operate to produce the best team effort we can. This results in a project with the minimum fuss, minimum surprise, and maximum enjoyment.