People
20 years on
Movers & Shakers
Keith Armstrong has Scotland. Parker joins MPS from
Continuing our new ‘day in the life of’
been appointed as Odin Consulting Engineers, where
the new CIBSE north he was associate director. He will
series, David Atkinson describes what
east regional now be responsible for developing
chairman. new business opportunities for
it’s like to be a principal engineer Armstrong, a MPS in Scotland, where the
at international building services
regional director with AECOM, company provides design and
has been a CIBSE member since engineering services for major
consultancy, AECOM
1992. Taking up the reigns from construction projects.
outgoing chairman, Sam Collard,
Armstrong will hold the position Engineering and
for a year, not only chairing the environmental
regional committee meetings but consultant Gifford
also representing the interests of has appointed Tim
CIBSE’s north east membership at Stidwill as technical
a national level. director of its
structural engineering team in
Stuart Linington has Birmingham.
joined NG Bailey as Stidwill, a qualified and
managing director experienced chartered engineer,
of its maintenance joins Gifford from Ramboll
division. Whitbybird. He was director of the
He has more firm’s Birmingham office, which
than 20 years’ experience in he set up and managed.
the maintenance industry. In his new post he will work
Family man David Atkinson has Once a project is in the construction Now Linington will play a key alongside the structural design
worked at Aecom (formerly Faber stage, his time can then be split role in growing and moving team.
Maunsell) all his working life. between the office and the site. the maintenance division of
He joined in 1989 as a ‘skinny, As the BBC buildings reach NG Bailey, a building services Ken Dalton is the
spotty, 16-year-old’, working at commissioning stage, a typical day business, forward. new chief executive
Oscar Faber in Altrincham. Now for Atkinson includes answering for AECOM Europe
he is a principal engineer, I Eng, queries from the sub-contractor Jay Doo has joined after engineering
and ACIBSE, working on projects installing the plant. But, prior to AECOM as consultants Faber
such as Media City in Salford – the commissioning, he says the queries associate director Maunsell rebranded
new home to the BBC, involving are generally on the finer elements and mechanical to share its parent company’s
the relocation of 2,500 key staff and of the services design, such as services leader. He name last month.
anticipated to be one of the largest minor modifications to ease co- will be based in the Dalton will now be responsible
media cities in Europe. ordination, checking the contractors Auckland branch and will help for the European division.
AECOM’s involvement includes proposed installation drawings, raise the profile of the
the full design of three BBC and reviewing air and water flow- international engineering Stephen Lisk has
buildings, totalling an area of rates ready for the commissioning consultancy’s New Zealand health been inaugurated as
44,000m
2
, containing offices and process. This is ongoing and will engineering group. the new president of
radio studios, a 24,000m
2
studio carry on until project completion the Society of Light
block and a multi-storey car park in 2010. Professor Deian Hopkin is retiring and Lighting (SLL).
containing 2,300 car spaces over The end result will enable as vice chancellor and chief This year is the
11 floors. the contractors to complete full executive of London South Bank SLL’s centenary and during his
As one of the lead mechanical installation and commission the University. presidential address Lisk said it
engineers on the BBC buildings, systems based on Aecom’s design Having held the position since was an honour to be at the helm,
Atkinson’s involvement has flow-rates. He says: “Projects can be 2001, he has now accepted an outlining the group’s history,
included designing a number of so different, and have such a broad Honorary Fellowship from CIBSE. present tasks and the future
services, including heating, water range of service requirements. I Past CIBSE president David challenges ahead.
services, active beam systems, consider all projects that I work on Hughes said: “We at CIBSE regard
ventilation, and the broadcast- to be a challenge. Deian as a friend and colleague and International engineering
critical areas including radio studios, “The most enjoyable part of my congratulate him in crossing the consultants AECOM has
presentation areas and IT rooms. job is attending site and seeing my boundary from arts to engineering appointed Graham Fairley to
Atkinson says his working designs actually being installed. and for accepting an Honorary head its Façade Engineering
week changes to suit the stage of From the initial design stage to Fellowship of our institution.” Group. Fairley has experience in
a project. During the early design construction, and then commenting the technical, management and
stage he is 100-per-cent office on a contractor’s proposed Stuart Parker has procurement aspects of projects,
bound but, as time progresses, installation drawings – it’s great been appointed by having worked at a number of
he may attend meetings with the to be in a position to see a project design and consultancies. Being an architect
architect, structural engineer or through, from scheme design to engineering by trade, Fairley will now be able
possibly at another AECOM office. commissioned installation.” specialist Morgan to fuse together the technical and
Professional design aspirations in AECOM’s
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