Malcolm Thomas is a practising chartered building surveyor and town planner with over 35 years experience in his specialised field of property asset management and planned building maintenance. He is academically qualified, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. He has taught construction technology and building maintenance at the National University of Singapore, and practised as a chartered building surveyor in Singapore, Malaysia, Spain and the United Kingdom. Mr Thomas currently advises a wide range of major building owners and occupiers on asset management and planned maintenance.

He has broad experience in building pathology, maintenance management, project management of refurbishment and development monitoring. Mr Thomas has worked either directly for building owners/service providers or as a consultant in most sectors of the economy, dealing with a wide variety of building portfolios.

He provides training courses in the UK and Asia. Mr Thomas now takes a keen professional interest in the green agenda and how this impacts building maintenance.