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Joe Evans

Joe Evans sat at his desk in an office

Study Type: Higher Education
Study Location: The Roundhouse
Subject Studied: Professional Construction

Joe reaches for the sky after receiving First in Quantity Surveying

Former joinery apprentice Joe Evans says the “sky’s the limit” after gaining a First Class Honours degree in Quantity Surveying.

Twenty-seven-year old Joe, from Belper, now heads a team for Barratt Homes while running four housing projects across the East Midlands.

He started with Barratt as a joinery apprentice on day release to Derby College but switched to the National Certificate in Construction while working as a trainee quantity surveyor.

Joe then went on to take the college’s Foundation Degree in Quantity Surveying, gaining distinctions for both his construction and foundation course.

Moving on to Nottingham Trent University, he was one of just three part-time students – two of whom were also from Derby College – to be awarded First Class Honours Degrees.

Joe said his Derby college lecturers were excellent and praised the depth and variety of the courses which “set me up” for the future.

Currently, I'm running four housing developments, in Derby, Leicester, Nottingham and Worksop. The sky's the limit really and the foundations came from Derby College.