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Ceri Davies.
Ronnie H Browne. Presidential roll of honour
In conjunction with IHEEM’s 75th Anniversary this year, we continue our focus on all the IHEEM Presidents who have served in the role since the Institute’s incorporation.
IHEEM’s 15th President – 1994-1996 Ceri Davies
Ceri Davies has had a very successful career as an architect – marked out for all to see by the Navy Buildings that he has designed. He grew up in Barry, South Wales, and studied Architecture at Cardiff University, qualifying as a registered Architect in 1957. Following graduation, he was employed in various private and public offices designing housing, schools etc. before joining the British Railways Design Office, working on various projects – including signal boxes as part of Midland Region’s electrification programme. In 1964 he joined the then newly formed Research and Development Unit in the Ministry of Health, created following Enoch Powell’s ambitious hospital building programme to establish guidance to help Regional Health Authorities and Teaching Hospitals deliver the new hospital projects. It produced Building Notes, HTMs, and the Component Database etc. Following a Treasury course, Ceri Davies led the team which developed the concepts of cost allowances related to functional units, and on-costs etc. A lecture tour of the USA and Canada on logistics planning followed. On his return he initiated and led the ‘Harness’ and ‘Nucleus’ hospital programmes, and chaired the joint NHS/DHSS Policy Steering Group on Estate Management. His overseas work at this time included designing the teaching hospital masterplan in Bahrain, a children’s hospital in Armenia (following a disastrous earthquake there), and teaching at Baghdad University.
He also led a joint Home Office/NHS team on ‘Fire Safety in Hospitals’, entailing considerable real-life fire research, all of which culminated in Firecode. He was then invited to chair the Government
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Enquiry into Property Management in the NHS; the resulting report was published in 1983. Promoting the concept of strategic estate planning in the NHS, this work established the need for property databases, optimal utilisation, and ‘productivity’, and provided a methodology for incorporating the existing estate resource into capital planning. Following Government approval, Estates Departments replaced Works Departments in the NHS, and in due course the Institute (and HEJ) extended their range of interests to included estate management and capital planning. Ceri Davies led the Department of Health Consultancy Team to assist hospital authorities across the country to rationalise their estates.
He retired from the Civil Service as Assistant Secretary in 1994, and was appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University.
IHEEM’s 16th President – 1996-1998 Ronnie H Browne
‘RH’ (Ronnie) Browne BSc, MSc, CEng, FIHEEM, FIMech.E, FIET, was employed as an apprentice fitter/machinist by the British Tabulating Machine Company (later International Computers Ltd) in 1959. Through day release and evening study he completed a Higher National Certificate in Mechanical Engineering in 1963, and, subsequently, as a Student Apprentice with ICL, commenced a four- year Electrical Engineering degree course at Queen’s University Belfast. During 1964/1965 he was granted a sabbatical to travel and work in Australia as British Technical Student of the Year (Junior Chamber of Commerce Overseas Travel Award Scheme). On his return he completed his course, graduated in 1968, and worked in product development. He subsequently moved to a careers guidance post at Queen’s University before joining the health service in 1972 as a hospital engineer. He held posts at Hospital, District, and Area levels, and completed a part-time MSc in Energy
Studies before being appointed head of Estates in The Department of Health and Social Services Northern Ireland in 1988, later becoming chief executive of the Health Estates Agency.
He retired from the Northern Ireland Civil Service in 2003, and has since undertaken consultancy assignments, also working part time as COO for the Royal Yachting Association NI. During his two- year Presidency, important changes in which he was actively involved included the combining of the Institute’s conference with the NHS Estates conference, resulting in the annual conference and exhibition of the kind IHEEM currently has, and important ‘bridge building’ and clarification of roles undertaken with HefmA. On completing his Presidency, he was invited to become an IHEEM representative within the International Federation of Hospital Engineering (IFHE); he was initially a Council member, and later a member of IFHE’s Executive Committee, retiring from that position in 2016. In 1998 he was asked by the then Secretary of IHEEM, Bill Pym, to help establish and to chair an IHEEM Internal Audit Committee. He remains a member of the Committee, but stepped down as chairman in the mid-2000s to chair the IHEEM International Affairs Committee. He was a founder member of IHEEM’s Northern Ireland Branch, and attends Branch meetings when he can. Ronnie Browne is also interested in, and has participated in, a wide range of sports, recreational, and voluntary activities, and is still an active yachtsman involved in both club racing and cruising.
IHEEM’s 17th President – 1998-2000 Mike Arrowsmith
Mike Arrowsmith began his career in healthcare with the Sheffield Regional Hospital Board in 1960, starting as a trainee, and becoming – as a technical officer – involved with the design and commissioning of numerous healthcare building projects.
In 1972 he went on to work with
Mike Arrowsmith.
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