Interview CIBSE president

Rob Manning... The CIBSE president’s key message is: collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.

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‘Active’ engineering needs to be at the heart of green construction, says CIBSE’s new president, who tells Bob Cervi about his hopes for the coming 12 months – and the next four decades

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CIBSE Journal May 2010

ob Manning looks remarkably unruffled, bearing in mind that he has not one but two new ‘jobs’ to contend with. As well as taking on the mantle of CIBSE president this month,

Manning is also getting to grips with a new post at AECOM consulting engineers, where he moves from being chief engineer for building services to heading up the healthcare sector.

So does this mean doing less frontline technical

work? No, says Manning, as he’ll be very much involved in the nitty-gritty of healthcare projects across the UK. Which is perhaps business as usual for a man whose 40 years in the industry has very much been focused on the delivery of services. ‘My whole career has been about delivering

buildings,’ he says. ‘It’s why I am what I am.’ That should certainly stand him in good stead, bearing in mind that, as he puts it, ‘many of CIBSE’s members actually spend time delivering buildings’. Of course, agrees Manning, the underlying problem

is that what architects, designers and engineers intend for their projects is too often not what is delivered after occupancy. And this is very much down to the difficulty that the professions across the supply chain are having in working towards a common goal.

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