CIBSE ROUNDTABLE DEBATE
Left to right: George Adams, David Fisk and Andy Ford
ALL FOR ONE ‘T
Successful joint working is key to achieving a low carbon future for the industry, and CIBSE is leading by example in bringing together its leaders to share their strategic vision. Andrew Brister joins CIBSE’s past, present and future presidents
he past-president is the one that has all the wisdom, the president- elect is the one that has all the fun and the president has all the
black tie dinners.’ Not this year. New CIBSE president David Fisk is keen to break with the traditional division of labour between the troika at the top of the Institution. ‘It seems to me much better to emphasise that we are better as a presidential team, to recognise the strength and depth that we have to cover all the bases,’ explains Fisk. ‘CIBSE is an enormous church and we don’t want to have presidents like Chinese years – “this is the year of the boffin, and this is the year of the contractor”. Between us we cover a great chunk of the industry.’ Indeed they do. Fisk is director of
the Laing O’Rourke Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation at Imperial College London. He is joined by president- elect George Adams, engineering director at contractor Spie Matthew Hall and immediate past-president Andy Ford,
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technical director of consultant Mott Macdonald Fulcrum. Many reports into the ills of the construction industry, from Latham to Egan to Stern, cite the need for integrated teams to design and build successful projects. ‘We want to demonstrate to the industry
that we are joined up; we are going to take a longer-term view; we are going to have joined up processes, from president, to past-president, to president-elect, and beyond throughout the network of CIBSE. We will start to integrate across the regions and we want our young engineers to feel more involved, rather than perhaps slightly separate,’ explains Adams.
Integration ‘One of the key issues – and this has been occupying our minds within the institution for quite some time – is about understanding our supply chain,’ says Ford. ‘Who exactly is involved and how we work together to deliver what we need to; which are buildings that work throughout
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