CIOB member Kevin Osbon listed for second time in same year he receives an MBE
Founder partner of construction consultancy Focus Consultants Kevin Osbon has been named in the Top 100 Influential People 2026 Awards – for the second year running.
Osbon – a CIOB member – was first listed in the Top 100 Influential People Awards last year, believed to be one of the first representatives of the construction sector to receive the accolade.
He was also made an MBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours 2026 for services to the economy and regeneration in the East Midlands.
Osbon founded multi-disciplinary consultancy Focus in 1994 from the dining room of his then home in Beeston, Nottingham, and has helped grow it to an operation employing 80 people and with an annual fee turnover of around £8m.
He said: “I’m absolutely thrilled to have retained a place in the Top 100 Influential People Awards and to be considered as one of a handful of the UK’s most successful and influential people.
“The construction sector is generally underrepresented when it comes to getting recognition so this all supports my ambition to raise the profile of the industry and help influence policy for the future.”
Focus Consultants, which still has its headquarters in Nottingham but also now has offices in Leicester and London, provides project management, building surveying and quantity surveying, advises on sustainability, carries out business planning and economic development research, and helps clients secure public sector grants for regeneration projects.
Osbon is a strong supporter of social value, sustainability and placemaking – and it’s for this that he has been included in the Top 100 Influential People Awards.
Previous winners of the award have included: sculptor Anish Kapoor; Judge Robert Rinder; broadcaster Ben Fogle; rugby star and ultramarathon charity fundraiser Kevin Sinfield; footballer and Sports Personality of the Year Beth Mead; and Dame Sharon White, the first female CEO of John Lewis Partnership.
After receiving his MBE, Osbon has pledged to use his recognition as a platform to help bring the construction sector to the forefront.”
