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Director Engineering Policy and Innovation
BSc CEng FIMechE FCIBSE 
Andy graduated with a degree in Physics from Queen Elizabeth´s College London in 1983. After a period of training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers. His early years were spent in variety of roles, many of which entailed leading construction projects in a variety of overseas environments.
In 1988 he undertook post-graduate training in building services engineering at the Royal School of Military Engineering in Chatham. This was followed by both design office and site attachments to the US Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, California.
Subsequent posts saw him serve in the Military Works Force in Chilwell, undertaking an operational tour to war-torn Bosnia and the project management of a large earthworks project on Salisbury Plain for Defence Estates. During this time he became a Corporate Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and registrant of the Engineering Council.
After a period in squadron command he became the Establishment Works Consultant at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, responsible for the management of the maintenance of the airfield infrastructure. Subsequently he returned to Chatham as an instructor of post-graduate M&E engineers.
He spent 2001 as the infrastructure adviser to the Commander British Forces in Bosnia, a role repeated the following year on posting to Cyprus.
Andy retired from the Army in 2006 and joined the staff of the Institution in July of that year in the role of Head of Engineering Operations, where his principal activities were the launch of the Design Institutions Joint H&S Strategy and the management of the migration to the new Learned Society structure. He assumed the appointment of Director Engineering Policy and Innovation in August 2007.
Andy is married with 2 children. His interests include running, cycling and horse racing.
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