Katrina is committed, dedicated and enthusiastic and is never afraid to put forward or create new ideas. She has taken on more responsibility than expected of an apprentice and has responded to this with a passion and enthusiasm that has inspired others. Her ability to contribute to some highly challenging new situations and find innovative solutions has been quite remarkable. Highly organised and with a real determination to further develop her skills and experience both on and off the job, Katrina takes pride in everything she does and delivers outstanding results and support to her Project Managers. 

Jonathon has shown outstanding technical and leadership qualities during his Project Management apprenticeship. His maturity of attitude, willingness and speed of learning have earned Jonathon the trust to undertake a leadership role at a young age, at which he is excelling. As Assistant Project Manager in a significant Defence joint venture programme, Jonathon directly oversees two projects valued over £4m, and co-leads a £30m scheme with one other colleague. The programme leadership has highlighted Jonathon’s ability to gain and share

The British Army urgently requires upgraded Challenger-3 Tanks to meet the Russian threat in Eastern Europe. Innovating the planning and delivery approach with Critical Chain Project Management resulted in £320M of major subcontracts being placed on time. This innovation also enabled passing the quality and maturity Critical Design Review gate ahead of schedule and on budget, which exceeded customer expectations. In a new Joint Venture, Critical Chain brought a focus on team synchronisation and flow to deliver the critical path, helped to highlight and address conflicting priorities and engaged the workforce on their mission; to support our customers’ NATO commitments

The Crossrail programme in conjunction with Project Delivery Partner Bechtel, Programme Partner Transcend (JV between AECOM, Jacobs and Nichols) alongside a vast supply chain (37 major Tier 1s and over 400 contracts), delivered Britain's newest railway, the Elizabeth line. The Elizabeth line is one of the most complex infrastructure projects ever undertaken, a state-of-theart digital railway integrating three signalling systems, SCADA systems with 100,000 connections, 70 new trains, 42km of new tunnels beneath the heart of London with track, traction power, tunnel ventilation and tunnel MEP; 10 new stations, existing rail infrastructure upgrades to Reading, Heathrow, Abbey Wood and Shenfield.

Jon has proven to be an exceptional leader with his contagious enthusiasm for project control. He instilled a culture of trust, transparency, and mutual respect among the planning team, and propelled them to achieve success during a time of significant change. Jon created a team that excelled within Costain Advisory and also actively engaged with the wider project control community. Jon is an active champion for Costain’s Project Control and Graduate programmes, helping address the national skills gap and create a lasting legacy. A diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease in the year has reinforced Jon’s passion and energy in this area.

In order to satisfy a skills shortage and develop a sustainable approach to recruitment in local communities, Babcock have developed the ‘Train to Fit’ programme to offer a career pathway, which was previously inaccessible to those outside of the project profession and deliver a resourcing and training solution in a challenging marketplace. The programme acquires hard-to-source skills by enabling part-skilled candidates, supporting, and upskilling them to become project controls practitioners. The programmeutilises local talent, supports local communities, and provides the opportunity to join a tier one defence contractor.

Between 1915 and 2001, the Bishopton Royal Ordnance Factory manufactured explosives. When manufacturing ceased in 2001, the site presented BAE Systems with significant environmental, social issues and technical challenges. The transformation scheme creates 4,000 new homes, together with key infrastructure and community services. It will also see a host of facilities bringing people closer to nature, including play parks, woodland trails and landscaping. Bishopton is an outstanding demonstration of corporate responsibility, turning brownfield land into a community for the next generation and, has already won national awards from the Royal Town Planning Institute, Homes for Scotland and the Brownfield Industry.

Following the success of a large-scale benchmarking assessment of their Nuclear sector, Babcock has gone global in delivering a P3M transformation programme. The Group Project Management Functional team, whose diversity and knowledge led the way, developed a Global Project Management delivery framework, with Integrated Project Controls at its heart, drove improved governance and lifecycle alignment and embarked on people development, investing in c.2200 project professionals and c.450 on-going programmes and projects providing the right tools, skills and support to enable them to work consistently and deliver predictable successful outcomes; supporting Babcock’s purpose of creating a safe and secure world, together.

As a global consultancy we are passionate about transforming programme performance for a green, inclusive and productive world, and consider our Controls and Performance capability as the foundation for this. Our Controls and Performance vision is to enhance our clients’ integrated controls capability, with our mission to efficiently apply consistent controls methodologies to improve performance and deliver better programme outcomes. We believe the work summarised in this submission showchases the value our teams create when working collaboratively with our global clients, placing equal focus on our people and values, client capability development and technical service excellence.

Shane is widely recognised by project controls professionals as having contributed a significant impact to the benefit of the profession over his career of 48 years. His co-editing of the “Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls” being one of many examples. Shane continues to pass on his knowledge and experience in building on his input to the project controls apprenticeship with his current role as a project controls trainer. In addition to these contributions, Shane is a constant thought leader. I believe the Global Lifetime Achievement Award would be a fitting recognition of all he has contributed to our profession.