{"id":70907,"date":"2020-01-29T13:28:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=70907"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:28:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T13:28:59","slug":"project-etopia-beena-tanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/mmc-news\/project-etopia-beena-tanna\/70907\/","title":{"rendered":"BRE Group\u2019s Beena Tanna joins Project Etopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Beena Tanna has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectetopia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Etopia<\/a> as its new business development and sales director from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bregroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BRE<\/a> where she was commercial manager<\/h2>\n<p>Beena Tanna joins the company from building science and research company BRE, where she was the commercial manager in charge of innovation parks and the group\u2019s industry forum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/construction-technology-news\/constructing-excellence-hub\/66987\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Constructing Excellence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>As its new business development and sales director, Tanna\u2019s responsibilities include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Building relationships with councils and housing associations, helping them plan and deliver affordable, sustainable housing projects<\/li>\n<li>Growing Project Etopia\u2019s B2B sales pipeline and managing relationships with industry partners<\/li>\n<li>Expanding the sales team and handling customer relationships from first contact to project delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prior to working at BRE, Tanna was employed at Intertek as business projects manager for 12 years and served as a director (UK and Ireland) for engineering firm ERATech for two years.<\/p>\n<h3>Pushing Modern Methods of Construction<\/h3>\n<p>Joseph Daniels, CEO of Project Etopia, said:\u00a0\u201cWe are pleased to be 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