Essex Centre

After sitting on the Essex Centre committee for the past 5 years it gave me immense pleasure to accept the chain of office at the centre AGM on 25th March 2009, moving from Junior Vice Chairman to Chairman. It is my intention to maintain the high standard of leadership set by the immediate outgoing chairman Shaun Valentine who has provided the Essex Centre with a varied range of diverse CPD events delivered by very good speakers.

I would like to use my term in office to attract more members to our events by asking the membership what subjects they would like to hear about and to keep the membership abreast of current legislation and changes within industry standards, in particular best practice methods. 

Over the past 15 years I have worked mainly as a principle contractor on many PFI government projects starting as a finishing foreman through to compliance management. My main interest is the quality of workmanship and compliance to the design and specification. This is an area that I would like to focus on with the CPD events for next year.

With newly elected committee members bringing fresh ideas and experience to the committee I am looking forward to discussing the service we are providing to the membership and will be giving members the opportunity to speak to the committee on a Q&A basis at CPD events.

As the Essex Centre representative at Branch level I would like to take issues from the membership forward with a view of providing feedback at the CPD events which is the local forum for discussing member’s views and concerns.

Finally, I would like to thank the members of the Essex Centre for their good standard of attendance at the past year’s CPD events and look forward to seeing greater numbers in the coming months and the new season.

Julian Winton BSc (Hons) MCIOB Essex Centre Chairman