Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) has hired Nigel Light as a vice president with its project and development services group. Light will lead JLL's Quantity Surveying/Cost Management team in the Northeast and support the growth of JLL's project management efforts in the higher education, retail, health care, corporate interiors, infrastructure and critical systems sectors.
Light has more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, assisting clients with quantity surveying, budgeting, cost control, cash flow forecasting and financial reporting. He is an expert at optimizing development costs on a wide variety of projects by estimating the cost of labor and materials prior to start of construction.
Prior to joining JLL, Light served as pre-construction manager for KBE Building Corp, where he managed all aspects of the process prior to the start of construction.