Contributors


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Stuart Bell Hit the trail (p32)


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Stuart has had more than 20 years of experience in the supply and delivery of information management systems to companies


operating in and around the built environment. As sales and marketing director at GroupBC, his focus is on enabling better information management across all operational areas of the project and asset lifecycle, helping companies to get organised, to leverage their information assets and drive project, asset and wider business improvements.


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Iain Cox Safe and sustainable (p52)


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Iain chairs the Business Sprinkler Alliance, National Fire Sprinkler Network and Fire Risk Assessment


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Jonathan Evans Next moves (p46)


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Jonathan is chief executive offi cer of Ash and Lacy, a UK construction and automotive engineering business


and manufacturer of facade and roofi ng systems. He has a background in the automotive and semiconductor industries and chairs the technical trade association. Jonathan has been involved in UK government initiatives responding to Grenfell since July 2017, was appointed as the independent expert during its large scale testing programme and sits on the BS 8414 review committee.


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Melissa Harrison Viewpoint (p4)


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Melissa’s role as the FPA’s events manager involves organising all external events and the annual Fire


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Sector Summit, several smaller in house events, quarterly seminars and speaker commitments UK wide. Previously she worked in education, coordinating exhibitions, conferences and training. Melissa has a degree in hospitality, and other employment has included showground management at agricultural events, events coordinator at a large stately house hotel and working in the democratic department of local government, organising council meetings.


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Competency Council. He retired from the fi re and rescue service in 2013 after 34 years, serving as chief fi re offi cer of Royal Berkshire for the last ten of them. From 2009 to 2011, Iain was a board member of the Chief Fire Offi cers Association, where he was focused on prevention and protection.


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Dorian Lawrence Hard work ahead (p42)


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Dorian is managing director of FR Consultants Ltd, a chartered building engineer, and member of the Chartered Institute of Builders


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and Chartered Association of Building Engineers, as well as being an associate of the Society of Facade Engineers. With over 30 years’ experience in the facade and surveying industry, he sits on an Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) high rise task force panel, along with members of London Fire Brigade and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.


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Warren Spencer FSO in focus (p26)


A specialist in fire safety law, Warren is managing director and fi re safety solicitor at Blackhurst


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Budd Solicitors. He currently prosecutes for Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Cumbria, Cheshire, Merseyside and Hereford and Worcester fi re and rescue services. In addition, Warren provides fi re safety legal training for a wide range of public and private sector groups.


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George Stevenson The golden key (p36)


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George is managing director of ActivePlan; a contributor to the building information modelling


(BIM) Interoperability Expert Group 2020 report; a visiting lecturer for Middlesex University’s MSc BIM programme; and an Innovate UK project partner DFMA 2021 demonstrator. He also chairs the UKBIM Alliance BIM4Housing, which supports adoption and implementation of digital processes in residential developments, including practical delivery of the golden thread. George works with the Construction Innovation Hub at BRE to develop a platform supporting LEXiCON, an initiative led by the Construction Products Association to standardise product description, and with Travis Perkins to provide designers, contractors and clients with free libraries of digital product information.


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Tracie Williams Clarity above all (p28)


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Tracie is the managing director of Evident Software, a company with a mission to ensure that a digital


audit trail or golden thread of information, exists for all safety equipment in every large residential building, to protect lives and property from the threat of fi re.


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