About Alex Harvie
Alex Harvie is a Marketing, Communications and PR specialist with experience of large-scale, high-profile projects.

Alex specialises in content-led communications campaigns. Her experience ranges from high-profile international projects to complex start-ups. She has devised and successfully delivered sensitive perception-change projects as well as multi-channel place-making campaigns. With a background in traditional marketing techniques, Alex is adept at digital communications, from the creation of social media campaigns to online commercialisation strategies.
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[edit] Current role
[edit] Marketing lead, Vastint UK
Leading the marketing, communications and PR for Vastint UK, part of an international development company with operations across Europe. Creating campaigns for large-scale urban regeneration projects in London (26 acres), Leeds (21 acres) and Cardiff (24 acres). Implementing the communications strategy for London with 58,000m² workspaces, 1,200 homes, a primary school, 350-bed hotel and retail and leisure.
[edit] Past projects
[edit] Head of Communications, Wembley Park
Alex was responsible for devising a communications strategy to change perceptions of the £800m, 85-acre site around the National Stadium and establish it as a popular London district. Working with Wembley's complex stakeholder groups to create multi-layered communications programmes which deliver strategic corporate objectives while simultaneously engaging at community level. Working in traditional media, digital and social media, events, PR, installations, films and publishing.
[edit] Managing Editor of 'Splendour of Iran'
Alex worked in Iran and Hong Kong to deliver this three-volume study created to redefine the nation's identity; offering unprecedented insights into one of the world's most enduring civilisations, commissioned by Iran University Press.
[edit] Marketing Specialist, Barking Riverside
At one of the largest development in the Thames Gateway, Alex worked to establish a coherent written style, producing three design statements submitted as planning condition documents for Bellway Homes.
[edit] Content Lead, London 2012 Olympics
Alex worked for LOCOG/British Airways to manage a unique and complex partnership project to create the award-winning 'Murray Mound' Live Site in the River Lea on the Olympic Park.
[edit] 9/11 Memorial Author
Alex was author and creator of 'September 11 Memorial Garden', a book for families of British victims of 9/11 commissioned by DCMS which set the approach to future Government memorial projects.
[edit] Author, RIBA
Alex provided a chapter to the RIBA's Good Practice Guide 'Marketing your practice', a chapter setting out the publishing options for architectural practices, explaining the stages and work involved in different routes.
Articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
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CLC and BSR process map for HRB approvals
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Building Safety Levy technical consultation response
Details of the planned levy now due in 2026.
Great British Energy install solar on school and NHS sites
200 schools and 200 NHS sites to get solar systems, as first project of the newly formed government initiative.
600 million for 60,000 more skilled construction workers
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The restoration of the novelist’s birthplace in Eastwood.
Life Critical Fire Safety External Wall System LCFS EWS
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PAC report on the Remediation of Dangerous Cladding
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New towns, expanded settlements and housing delivery
Modular inquiry asks if new towns and expanded settlements are an effective means of delivering housing.
Building Engineering Business Survey Q1 2025
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Construction contract awards remain buoyant
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Home builders call for suspension of Building Safety Levy
HBF with over 100 home builders write to the Chancellor.
CIOB Apprentice of the Year 2024/2025
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Warm Homes Plan and existing energy bill support policies
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Treasury responds to sector submission on Warm Homes
Trade associations call on Government to make good on manifesto pledge for the upgrading of 5 million homes.
A tour through Robotic Installation Systems for Elevators, Innovation Labs, MetaCore and PORT tech.
A dynamic brand built for impact stitched into BSRIA’s building fabric.
BS 9991:2024 and the recently published CLC advisory note
Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice.