Remembering Geoffrey Trickey (1 Sept 1935 to 23 May 2025)

By Paul Morrell2025-06-24T06:00:00

Paul Morrell pays tribute to the former senior partner of Davis Langdon & Everest (now part of Aecom), who died in May, just a few months short of his 90th birthday.

Geoff Trickey’s influence in my life began long before I actually met him. Emerging from university with a degree in quantity surveying, and not being sure about what to do next, I was encouraged by my father to apply for a job at Davis Belfield & Everest (as it then was). As a contractor, my father had come across many quantity surveying practices, but DB&E struck him as unusually enlightened, and that came from dealing with Geoff on a complicated project on Martlesham Heath.

That job interview (with the founding partner of the business, Owen Davis) was probably the most important day of my working life: I got the job, and didn’t move again until retiring 36 years later.

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