WiBE Committee Members
Meet the women who run and organise WiBE and our events in their spare time.
The committee members come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and represent many different disciplines from the Built Environment.
Madeline Tucker
Madeline is the Chair of WiBE, and took over in 2018 following Alice and Jackie's retirement from the committee.
She is a Chartered Surveyor and Registered Valuer, specialising in the valuation of commercial, development and residential property....
Jerene Irwin
Jerene is a Chartered Architect and Director at local multidisciplinary practice, Chaplin Farrant. She specialises in community projects for the public sector and education, regeneration, and education projects. She is a people focussed architect and enjoys working with existing buildings, reshaping them alongside the communities they serve for the next generation while improving social outcomes and regeneration of local high streets.
Jerene is the Treasurer for, and a previous president of, RIBA Norfolk. She is the current Chair of RIBA East which is the Regional RIBA branch covering East Anglia. She is a founding Trustee of Construction east, a local charity set up to bring more people into the construction industry, building visibility of the sector and encouraging diversity and opportunities. Jerene has been involved with WiBE since the beginning and thoroughly enjoyed going to events and in 2024 got the chance to be part of the steering committee.
Nicola Curle
Nicola is a Partner at Birketts..
Jurgita Margelyte
Jurgita became a member of Women in the Built Environment in August 2024. Jurgita joined M Brock in 2019 after many years working in Norfolk and Suffolk County Councils to lead business development and marketing for the privately owned construction supply chain company.
Jurgita has an extended knowledge and experience of working in varied environments and transfers her holistic approach to networking within business communities and prides herself in connecting people.
FOUNDING MEMBERS
Jackie and Alice were part of the marvellous group of women who came together to form WiBE. They stepped down from the steering committee in June 2018, but they will still be around at our events!
Jackie Crisp
Jackie was one of the founding members of Women in the Built Environment. Jackie has been a partner at Roche Surveyors since 1990...
Alice Liddle
Alice was one of the founding members of Women in the Built Environment.
Alice is a Director at Howes Percival, with a senior role in the commercial property team...
