Eight make shortlist for Duke of Gloucester Young Achievers Scheme.
CIOB members have been shortlisted in four out of five categories of the prestigious Duke of Gloucester Young Achievers Scheme, now in its third year.
In total eight members have made the shortlist in the Design, Project Management, Surveying, and Construction Delivery categories, the latter being a new category added this year. The fifth category in the scheme is engineering.
The Young Achievers Scheme, which is organised by the Construction Youth Trust charity, celebrates the achievements of young professionals across the industry under the age of 30. The judges look for young people who have achieved excellence in their careers so far, and have also had to overcome challenges or social disadvantage to get to where they are.
Last year, the overall winner was Kier employee and engineer Stacey Clifford, while Paul Ebbs ICIOB, a 23-year-old site manager from Southampton, won the Project Management category.
The winners will receive cash prizes and a personal development opportunity through the Trust with a one-year mentoring programme. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Globe in London on 20 March.
Award nominees: (l-r) Matt Burley ICIOB; Vinci’s Marina Ryan; United House’s Helena Cole MCIOB; Balfour Beatty’s Harriet Bower; and Vicky Turner ICIOB, also from United House
Nominated in the Site Manager category is Victoria Turner ICIOB, a 26-year-old site manager with United House in London, who joined as trainee in 2008 and became the firm’s youngest site manager at 24. Turner is a member of the Novus Committee and achieved first class Honours for her BSc in Construction Management.
In the Design category, there are three young professionals affiliated with the CIOB. The first is Yorkshire-based Marina Ryan, an assistant design engineer at Taylor Woodrow the civil engineering division of Vinci Construction UK. Ryan is currently working on phase two of the Nottingham Express Tram Project.
The second Design nominee is Matt Burley ICIOB, a design manager with Kier Construction in London who was the CIOB’s Graduate of the Year in 2013. Burley is currently looking to spread knowledge of BIM modelling to the industry while pursuing full MCIOB certification.
Also shortlisted is Helena Cole MCIOB, a Romford-based design manager at United House working on pre-construction residential projects for housing associations. She was formerly a design co-ordinator/manager at Laing O’Rourke.
In the Project Management category, three more members are shortlisted. Harriet Bower is a Cheshire-based assistant bid manager with Balfour Beatty Construction Services, who works for the major projects team providing bid management services.
Nick Bryant is a London-based project manager with Mace who is currently working on the £100m 3 Merchant Square residential scheme.
From Milton Keynes, Philip Davies is an environmental (site) manager with Vinci Construction who, as part of ongoing studies at Loughborough University, is investigating opportunities and challenges for increasing the embodied energy efficiency in the UK non-domestic sector.
The finalist in the Surveying category is Mohammed Usman Shah, a graduate performance improvement manager with Costain based in Nottingham who is working on the highways improvement team.
