IHEEM 2021 AGM
AGM: President and CEO look back at eventful year
IHEEM’s 2021 AGM took place ‘virtually’ on 21 December, in accord with the Council’s decision not to hold face-to-face meetings and events during 2021. President, Paul Fenton, reported on some of the challenges the Institute, its members, and the profession had encountered in a difficult year, as well as some of the distinct ‘highs’, while CEO, Pete Sellars, looked ahead to IHEEM’s plans for 2022 and beyond. The winner of the 2021 IHEEM Lifetime Achievement Award was also announced. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
With the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic still in place, IHEEM’s President, Paul Fenton, got the Institute’s 54th AGM under way by explaining that the year’s meeting had been ‘specifically designed’ to allow the safe transaction of business that would meet IHEEM’s legal obligations. He said he was pleased to see so many members had signed up to attend the ‘virtual’ event. With this brief introduction and welcome, he called on Pete Sellars to read the Notice of the Annual General Meeting. Having done so, the IHEEM CEO then set out the agenda items, including the presentation of the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award. The first agenda item was to sign the
Minutes of the 2020 IHEEM AGM, held ‘virtually’ on 9 December 2020; these were unanimously approved as a true record via an online vote-casting system. Agenda item two saw Paul Fenton look back briefly on 2021 – his first year as IHEEM President. He said: “I am extremely proud of everything we have achieved – against all the challenges 2021 has thrown at us – as an Institute, a profession, and as individuals. Once again, despite the continuing challenges, the Institute has had
a successful year. Membership has grown significantly – proof that membership of a professional organisation that seeks to continually support its members has never been more valued.”
Raising IHEEM’s profile Part of his role as President, he emphasised, was to raise the Institute’s profile ‘as a trusted source of knowledge and wisdom’. He went on to explain that during 2021, IHEEM had improved its internal governance and assurance across its core functions, and updated the Terms of Reference for its Technical Platforms and Authorising Engineer Boards of Registration. As a result, the Engineering Council had lifted the 2019 ‘red alert’ placed on IHEEM in relation to the management of its Technical Platforms. Paul Fenton said this was a credit to the hard work that all the Technical Platform Chairs had put into this piece of work, ‘with a single objective of a unified and standard set of documents that truly echo the high standards and professionalism the Institute holds’. IHEEM had also continued to develop strong working relationships with ‘many
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IHEEM continued to develop strong working relationships with ‘many key stakeholders and organisations’
key stakeholders and organisations’, such as the Engineering Council, HEFMA, and NHS England and NHS Improvement. Paul Fenton added: “We have also formed new links with the UK Health Safety Agency and the NHS New Hospital Programme, and strengthened our association with the Royal Academy of Engineering as a formal National Engineering Policy partner.” One of the year’s ‘personal highlights’ had been the Institute’s invitation to be part of the Royal Academy of Engineering Rapid Review of Actions, commissioned by the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser to make infrastructure more infection-resilient to infection in the long term, ‘but with the immediate focus in Phase One on reducing the risk of
The Institute’s CEO, Pete Sellars, said: “Thank you to everybody at IHEEM’s head office, Council, and our members, who have enabled us to deliver such a fantastic year.”
IHEEM’s President, Paul Fenton, said the planning for Healthcare Estates 2021 had been ‘extremely challenging’, but he was proud of the ‘bold and innovative’ event created.
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