Alan joined the practice in March 1998, as an Associate to assist George Mah Associates to open the Caterham office. Alan's role was to continue to develop his relationship with his existing and new clients, some of which extend well beyond 10 years. After one year Alan became Managing Director of the Caterham office and in November by mutual agreement with his co-directors took full control of the practice following their resignation.

From our new office in Cowfold and trading as Alan Hutton Associates, the practice continues to expand following continued and successful relationships with former and new clients

His previous experience included an Associateship with an established North London Practice for whom he successfully ran an office in Dorking, Surrey, for a period of 8 years. This followed with a senior role lasting eleven years with a prominent Consultant in Hove, where he was an associate partner for eight years. The last two years of Alan's experience with the practice were as a Managing Director of a joint venture practice in Singapore where he set up and ran an office. During this period he assisted a local Practice with their increased workload and provided technical assistance within their office in a parallel role as Technical Director.

Alan's engineering expedience includes the technical planning and scheming of major refurbishment's, the scheming and technical supervision of the design of multi-story luxury flats with construction difficulties associated associated with underground car parking, multi-story offices and steel framed buildings. With more than 25 years experience of post qualification experience, Alan has considerable and varied knowledge in the field of Structural Engineering.

Bruce joined the practice in 1999 to give a greater flexibility in resources to cope with the increased workload. He has gained a varied range of experience during his training with Triad Timber Components, as a roof truss and timber frame design engineer. He progressed to senior design engineer with the responsibility of co-ordination of whole roof projects from quotation to completion, including supervision of site subcontractors.

Further practical experience was gained in Structural Engineering whilst working for a well established firm of Consulting Engineers in Hove, between 1988 and 1992 where he work in teams under the guidance of both Alan Hutton and George Mah. The experience gained helped to pass the associate membership examination of Institution of Structural Engineers in 1992.

An enforced career change gave him several years valuable experience in the financial services sector where he became a fully qualified adviser. However the challenge of Engineering hastened a return in 1999.

Previous structural projects, which he has engineered, include housing , schools, hotels, sports halls, theaters, supermarkets, multistory blocks of flats and offices, warehouse's, community centers and major refurbishment of listed buildings in London and throughout the South and West.

Bruce became an associate in April of the year of 2000 in recognition of his hard work. In June 2002 he was invited to join the board as Director and shareholder. This new role formalises Bruce in the role of managing projects and staff within the office, so freeing Alan to concentrate on the development of new works and clients.