Vice President, Public Voice
Throughout his career Professor Broyd has worked at the interface between industry practice and academic thinking in the construction and infrastructure sectors, including in roles with a formal responsibility for influencing business and government leaders to embrace and drive innovation through their organisations. His experience includes five years as chief executive of industry research body CIRIA, as well as a number of years as the corporate research and innovation director of Atkins.
He recently founded a national centre for construction innovation and excellence in Scotland, is the founding Chair of the ICE’s Policy Panel, and is actively involved in national innovation forums related to both construction and infrastructure.
He is a Fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers, a Visiting Professor at both the University of Reading and the University of Dundee and External Examiner of MSc courses at UCL and Cambridge. He has maintained an active engagement in the development and deployment of BIM techniques for over a decade, and is Vice Chairman of BuildingSmart (UK) Ltd. He is also a Director of CEEQUAL Limited, and became Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in November 2011.
Professor Broyd has particular experience in conceiving and deploying strategy, policy and applied research to deliver business advantage across a broad spectrum of international markets. His credentials as an innovative thinker and leader are exemplified by the following invited appointments:
- chairing the Executive Advisory Board of the Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium, a 5-year, £7m interdisciplinary research programme on long term dynamics of interdependent UK infrastructure systems
- membership of the Engineering and Interdependency Expert Group of Infrastructure UK
- membership of Expert Panels set up to steer feasibility studies for tidal power in the Severn and Mersey estuaries
- chairing the Board of Urban Buzz, a 2-year, £7.5m knowledge transfer programme aimed at the development of sustainable communities and with a particular focus on the Thames Gateway
- chairing the ConstructIT network for a number of years
- chairing the most recent Government Foresight study on the construction sector
- membership of the ‘high level engagement group’ which helped steer Carbon Vision, a £10m research programme jointly funded by the Carbon Trust and EPSRC and aimed at carbon reduction in the UK’s building stock
Professor Broyd graduated from the University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours degree in Civil Engineering, and remained there to study for a PhD in the mixing of salt and fresh waters in natural British estuaries.