Following his keynote address at Roading NZ’s conference Andrew Wolstenholme, OBE, BSc. CEng, FICE, has agreed to present to an Auckland audience the following evening. His ongoing passion to improve the UK construction industry ensured he led the review of the Egan report ‘Rethinking Construction’, resulting in the comprehensive report ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis published in 2009.
As outlined in the ICE Trans Tasman bulletin of December 2009, the ‘Never Waste a Good Crisis’ review team was not kind to the UK industry and we suspect NZ would hardly come out better – the key findings were that most of the targets were missed by industry generally but, significantly, Egan’s Demonstration Projects (formed to measure whether implementation was being achieved through implementing recommended KPIs) performed markedly better than industry averages. Of the 900 people interviewed, a large proportion broadly still supported Egan’s conclusions.
Andrew is now Director of Innovation and Strategic Capability for the Balfour Beatty Group. 12 months ago, this former BAA capital projects director (Terminal 5) managed their take-over of US project management consultants Parsons Brinckerhoff. He was awarded an OBE for services to the construction industry in June 2009.
For more information, please contact Jo Conway (transtasman@ice.org.uk)
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