Matthew Bracegirdle
Director
Orchard Building Solutions provides planned and reactive maintenance work for residential and commercial properties across London. We help surveyors and architects, property and facilities managers, as well as business and homeowners to look after their properties and keep them in excellent repair.
Whether you are looking for a programme of planned maintenance for property, need an urgent repair or have a large building project, our team of dedicated and skilled staff will take care of it for you.
We work with corporate and residential clients across London, including Kensington and Chelsea, Mayfair, the City and the West End. See our case studies and clients pages for examples of clients we have worked with.
At Orchard Building Solutions, we have a highly skilled team with a breadth of experience from across the building services industry, so you can be sure that your building project is in expert hands.
We believe that regular communication with our clients is the key to a successful building project. Each client is appointed a dedicated account manager, who will keep in touch regularly with you and update you on the status of your project or maintenance work.
We know you’re busy, so you don’t have time for chasing tradespeople or following up quotes or progress reports. We do that for you. We’ll also send you photos of the progress when you don’t have time to visit the site yourself. Our account managers are knowledgeable and professional and will keep you informed every step of the way.
Matthew Bracegirdle
Director
Matthew founded Orchard in 2009. He has project managed many high-end refurbishments in Central London and still manages several maintenance accounts that have been with Orchard since inception. Matthew focuses on business development and the overall running of the business. He now lives in Richmond with his wife Amy and son Leo.
Tim Smith
Director
Tim joined in 2011 as a part owner of Orchard. He managed a South West London branch of Foxtons Group for eight years prior to joining Orchard. Tim oversees the operation of Orchard as well as managing many maintenance accounts. He now lives in Cookham with his wife Tania, son Oscar and his loyal Dachshund, Max.
Steve Mather
Director – Manchester
Steve joined Orchard in November 2017 as a Senior Account Manager. Prior to this Steve worked at Countrywide for 9 years managing properties in Surrey, Oxford and Central London. Steve started at Countrywide as a property manager and went on to become Team manager. Steve is hugely experienced dealing with tenants, clients and issues. With Steve’s experience it makes him an integral part at Orchard. Steve is now based in Manchester and heads up the Orchard expansion in the North West.
William Trevorrow
Senior Project Manager
Will joined Orchard in 2019 as a Senior Project Manger. Will has been in the construction industry for 25 years, starting out in a small company learning his trade, he moved quickly on to foreman and then site manager where his first management project was building a terrace of ten new houses in Praze, Cornwall. Will then went onto site manage an exclusive development of fourteen detached houses on a golf course in Pra sands, Cornwall.
Will spent a year in 2000 working on sites in Sydney Australia, when he returned he worked as a site manager building shops and flats on the beach in Newquay.
In 2004 Will set up his own self employed business working closely with a Chelsea designer, works included full refurbishments, high end kitchens and bathrooms, extensions and loft conversions. In 2009 Will worked with Nautilus as a sub contractor all over Europe, building and theaming, he was their on site project manager for the refurbishment of the London Aquarium and also more recently the Jellyfish project. Will brings great experience to Orchard from his years in the building industry with a invaluable hands on approach.
Terri Brandon
Project Manager
Terri joined Orchard in August 2017 as a Project Manager, prior to this Terri has managed a large number of residential buildings around London for many years, which included overseeing major works. Terri’s background knowledge from a client’s prospective on the standard of work that is to be achieved along with understanding the technicality of the work makes her a strong member of the Orchard team.
Mario Grudev
Operations Manager
Mario has been our operations manager since 2010. He heads up the tradesmen working under Orchard and acts as quality control for most of the works. Mario brings vast experience to Orchard having worked on building sites in London for 15 years. His qualifications include First Aid, Health and Safety Level 2, SSSTS and PASMA.
Kancho Kanev
Site Manager
Kancho has been part of Orchard’s team since 2015. He has progressed from a handyman to an accomplished joiner. He is now our trusted site manager on both residential and commercial projects. Kancho takes great pride in his work and although being a tradesman always manages to look immaculate.
Ivan Ivanov
Site Manager
Ivan has been part of Orchard’s team since 2011. He has progressed from a handyman to an accomplished joiner. He is now our trusted site manager on larger projects, as well as carrying out the more complicated jobs. Ivan’s qualifications include First Aid, Health and Safety Level 2 and SSSTS.