Nicola Zech-Behrens joined Ballymore in 2015 and is a Project Director managing the planning and delivery of a variety of projects in Newham, Hackney and Tower Hamlets.

In Newham, she has recently completed the delivery of Royal Wharf and now looking after delivering a further 762 residential units at the neighbouring Deanston Wharf site and 1,675 units at Thames Road.

 

Prior to joining Ballymore, Nicola worked for a developer in Camden where she was responsible for the company’s pre-construction projects including the redevelopment of the company’s iconic market and co-working assets. Prior to that, Nicola worked for 11 years as an Associate at Allies & Morrison Architects where she was involved in the design and planning of large-scale, mixed-use development projects in the UK and overseas.

 

Nicola holds a master's degree in architecture and urban planning from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. She moved to London in 2004 as a masterplan architect to support Allies and Morrison and a consortium of architects and planners to prepare the Bid Document for the 2012 Olympic Games.