Helen Cogan

Helen Cogan is responsible for business development, client relationships and sales strategy at SDE.

She works with clients at enquiry stage to establish what a project actually requires before anything is priced, so that a proposal is written against that project's programme, budget and technical expectations rather than against a standard scope. Most of the disputes that surface late in a design are visible at this stage as a scope that was never agreed, and the point of doing it properly is that they do not surface later.

She maintains SDE's relationships with contractors, architects, developers and end clients across the UK, and owns the route from first enquiry through to appointment — keeping it moving is largely why SDE is able to attend site in the same week an enquiry comes in.

She has helped establish long-term client relationships across commercial, retail, industrial and residential development, including repeat and framework work where the same client returns project after project.