Director at Faithful+Gould, Atkins Group, with responsibility for BIM and Knowledge Management and has 20 years’ experience working in the construction industry. Adrian is a member of the RICS Technology Steering Group, the RICS Global BIM Working Group, and is a RICS Certified BIM Manager. Adrian first gained an understanding of BIM between 2005-2008 whilst leading a works package within a four year EU research project on industrialised construction involving 23 partners across 9 countries where BIM was being exploited by consortium members in northern Europe. Immediately recognising the potential of BIM, Adrian has strongly advocated its adoption since. Adrian leads Faithful+Gould’s internal BIM working group and represents Faithful+Gould on the Atkins Global BIM Corporate Strategy Team.

Adrian is a founding committee member of the APM (Association for Project Management) Knowledge SIG (Specific Interest Group). He speaks regularly at conferences and industry events on topics which include BIM, social business, knowledge management and innovation, and collaboration. Adrian also writes a regular blog column for Building Magazine. He previously spent around six years as a member of the Henley Knowledge Management Forum at Henley Business School and has collaborated on a number of innovative research projects.

Adrian has a Masters degree in Information Systems which provides a strong foundation for understanding the application of structured information within BIM. He has worked in people and change related roles for the last ten years. As HR Business Partner Adrian led the implementation of a HR Modernisation Programme over a three year period for Faithful+Gould as part of a wider Group strategic change programme.

Alan Chilcott is a currently engaged as an Assessor for the Qualification Credit Framework (QCF) programme in Project Controls and as a course Presenter/Trainer.  He has enjoyed a long career during which he has gained a wealth of experience in the cost engineering/project management/project controls field, commencing as a graduate chemical engineer and moving into a project management role with a major chemical/petrochemical construction company both locally and overseas.  Following this he was responsible for preparing capital and operating cost estimates and economic evaluations for metallurgical projects for a South African quasi-government organisation.  In semi-retirement Alan formally qualified as a Certified Cost Professional through the AACE International.  This opened the way to his being employed as a course Presenter/Trainer for cost engineering courses aimed at preparing  candidates for such qualifications

Andy Abu-Bakar is Risk Assurance Services Lead at Rhead Group. A Chartered Engineer, Andy spent the early part of his career in the development of novel technology, running aircraft and land equipment trials and certification activities, and managing multi-million pound defence contracts. As a project management and risk consultant, he has worked with a number of high profile industry and public sector clients in developing and implementing controls solutions for aerospace, maritime and construction sectors. Andy joined Rhead Group in 2013, where he oversees delivery of risk management support and analysis services for defence and infrastructure clients: he is currently supporting one of the UK MoD’s major acquisition programmes.

Andy Cruise has 15 years experience in contract management across gas, electricity and telecoms utilities.  

Andy’s most recent roles have focused on developing contract strategy for a number of large contractors.  Andy lead the development of contract management capability across National Grid to enable delivery of capital programmes with a value in excess of £1bn p.a.

Mr Cruise’s current focus is to manage a portfolio of > 200 contracts to provide maintenance engineers at National Grid with goods and services to maintain the grid’s excellent reliability.

Ben Hubbard has experience in the EPC industry working on large capital projects ranging in value from $1B to $11B in the Biomass, Power, Mining & Metals and O&M industries. He has experience in managing lump sum and cost reimbursable contracts in North America, East Asia and the Middle East. Prior to co-founding Nexus PMG, he was a Project Controls Manager for Fluor Corporation. Mr. Hubbard is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech University and an MBA from the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts.

Ben Vaughan is a Senior Consultant at BMT HI-Q Sigma who specialises in Risk Management and EVM. His experiences are shaped by the Surface Ships Industry, having been a Project Manager on HMS Queen Elizabeth, the new Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier, and a Risk Manager for the next generation of RN Frigates, the Type26 Global Combat Ship. Ben has a BA in History, an MSc in Engineering Management and is currently studying for his MBA. 

For over 20 years, Chris Bell has served as an advocate for the project controls discipline in organizations all around the world. What started out as a passion for technology applied to project management turned into a whirlwind career that started “in industry” working for URS Corporation (newly acquired by AECOM) and subsequently led him to strategic career moves to each of the best technology companies serving every major discipline of project controls. This journey gives Chris a unique perspective on the interdependency that exists among process standards, software tools and project controls practitioners.

Prior to dedicating his career to technology, he worked in project management, business development and marketing for URS, and a regional Design/Build construction firm.

Chris is a regular speaker at industry conferences such as Integrated Program Management Conference (IPM), Project Management Institute (PMI) Global Congress, National Defense Industrial Association, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE) and many others. He is also a published author of EVM for Dummies, 7 Habits of Highly Effective Projects and many other industry articles and whitepapers.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Mansfield University, PMP from Boston University and holds PM certifications from Project Management Institute, the Construction Industry Institute and Arizona State University.

David Birch has 35 years experience in the delivery of high profile UK and international project portfolios for world leading engineering contractors. He had responsibility for the CLM Programme Controls group within the CLM Joint Venture delivering the London 2012 Olympic Games programme on behalf of the UK Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA). Mr Birch’s priorities are to ensure that the London 2012 programme is delivered to or ahead of schedule and within the funding levels and budgets established by the ODA. Since joining CH2MHill in 2008 Mr Birch has served as CLM Head of Programme Controls for from December 2008 to today and was CLM Deputy Programme Controls Manager from May to December 2008.

Prior to joining National Grid, Mr Birch was with CH2M overseeing London 2012 Olympics, UK Operations Manager for URS/Washington Group Energy and Environmental Group executing projects and programmes within UK Nuclear decommissioning and clean-up. Previous experience includes 10 years with Bechtel working on International projects in the Oil and Gas, Water and Telecom Business Lines located in Kuwait, Kazakhstan, India and a number of European countries.

David Bordoli has over 30 years in the construction industry.  Throughout he career he has specialised in planning and programming, initially with contractor organisations and latterly as a consultant specialising in forensic delay analysis.  He is an experienced expert witness with his first appointment in 1989 where he used, the then, innovative network techniques to analyse the delays.  David is academically and professionally qualified and is the author of numerous high quality papers and seminar presentations.  He was awarded an MSc degree with distinction for his work on ‘The simulation of construction project delays using network techniques’, the method of analysis developed is now known as ‘Time Impact Analysis’.  His book, ‘A Handbook for Construction Planning and Scheduling’, co-authored with Andrew Baldwin, was published by Wiley Blackwell in May 2014.  David is still involved in ‘live’ work, alongside providing contractual advice, preparing time delay claims, reports for adjudications, arbitrations and litigation, and undertaking expert witness appointments. Most recently he has been engaged as an expert on major projects in South Africa and China.

Ewen Maclean, Eur Ing MEng (Hons) MSc (Const. Law & Arb) CEng FICE FCIArb, Construction Practice Leader, Berkeley Research Group
Ewen is an experienced expert in the field of programming; delay and disruption; and associated prolongation costs in relation to construction and engineering projects.  In particular, he has worked for both international consultants and contractors and has first-hand experience of assisting and representing clients in litigation, arbitration, mediation and adjudication, both for the claimant and respondent.  He has prepared numerous expert witness reports; drafted standard forms of contract and lectured on various commercial and contractual subjects within the construction industry.  Ewen has also acted in commercial negotiations and settlements, resolving potential disputes as well as providing advice on contract procurement.  Ewen is well versed in many of the standard forms of construction contract including the NEC, JCT, ICE, FIDIC, GC Works Conditions as well as bespoke forms of contracts including PFI contracts and has worked on contracts that span, inter alia, major building, civil engineering, oil and gas, mechanical and electrical, pharmaceutical, infrastructure including highways and rail as well as fit-out works.

George Haddad joined the Oracle Primavera Global Business Unit as Senior Director of Product Strategy as a result of the acquisition of Skire, Inc. in 2012.

George brings over twenty nine years of software product strategy, product design, and management combined with building design and construction industry domain experience to Oracle. Currently George is responsible for global business development and industry strategy. 

At Skire, George served as Vice President of Product Strategy and Management where he was charged with establishing and executing Skire’s strategic product direction, vision and roadmap and leading the product management team. During his tenure, he successfully led and launched the company's next generation best in class cloud-based products. 

Prior to joining Skire, George served as the Vice President of Product Management, Business Development and Marketing at Reed Construction Data (RCD). As a member of the senior executive leadership team and during his tenure at RCD, Mr. Haddad led the overall strategic direction of RCD’s products, marketing and business development and partnership activities.

Prior to Skire, George served as the Vice President of Product Management and Project Management at Citadon, Inc. In this role, he was responsible for leading the company’s overall products vision and strategy, product management and the overall project management of the development and delivery of all Citadon’s product lines.

George also served in a number of leadership roles at Autodesk, Inc. including senior Product Manager and Industry Marketing Manager in the Design Solutions Division (formerly AEC Market Group).

Mr. Haddad obtained his Master’s degree in architectural engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1987 and his Bachelor of Science degree in architectural engineering. He also completed the Strategic Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

Gero Renker is a co-founder and director of Enterprise Project Management specialist, Program Framework. He has many years’ experience as a project consultant and works with organisations of all sizes across all sectors in designing and implementing project management solutions. As a Microsoft technical specialist he also advises and works with the Microsoft Project team and is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars.

As well as running his own well established consultancy (GMH Planning Ltd) Glenn Hide is now a director with BuiltIntelligence. Glenn has presented on aspects of the contract at various national conferences, and had published a number of articles for the ICE Procurement, Management and Law publication and the NEC user-group newsletter. Having exclusively used the NEC form of contracts for the past 15 years he offers insight and practical advice on how users within the industry should understand and maximise the effectiveness of the contract on their projects/businesses.

BuiltIntelligence provides independent collaboratively sourced NEC3 training, knowhow and consultancy services using a collaborative model and technology as enablers to deliver more affordable, accessible and compliant services.

Built Intelligence features their NEC3 eLearning academy, which has over 34 modular online courses (and growing) arranged into real world ‘learning adventures’ around common tasks such as preparing compensation events, programme, early warnings and payments.

Gordon Lawrence is the Manager of Capital Projects in the EMEA region for Asset Performance Networks, based out of the company's office in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At AP-Networks Gordon assists clients in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries on capital projects and major maintenance turnarounds, advising on front end readiness, work processes, cost and schedule risk, contractor claims and other issues. His work has taken him across the globe to such locations as Mexico, India, Thailand, Sakhalin Island, Trinidad, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Qatar, Singapore, and China, as well as many locations in North America and Europe. Prior to joining AP-Networks, Gordon worked as a senior project manager at Novartis, the pharmaceutical firm, on projects in China and Switzerland. He also worked as a project manager with Jacobs Engineering, the contracting firm on projects in Western and Eastern Europe. In addition, Gordon has experience of working as a senior analyst at Independent Project Analysis (IPA), the capital project consulting firm and he acted as the Novartis representative at the Construction Industry Institute (CII), working on project benchmarking. 

Gordon is a Chartered Engineer in the UK, a registered professional engineer in the European Union, and a Fellow of the UK Institution of Chemical Engineers. He holds an honours degree in Chemical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, a master's degree in Biochemical Engineering from Birmingham University, England, and an MBA from Strathclyde University Business School in Glasgow, Scotland. He has published numerous articles and conference papers on methods for improving project and turnaround systems, including several on cost estimating for maintenance turnarounds

James G. Zack, Jr. is the Executive Director of the Navigant Construction Forum.  The Forum strives to be the construction industry’s resource for thought leadership and best practices on avoidance and resolution of construction project disputes globally.  Formerly he was the Executive Director, Corporate Claims Management, Fluor Corporation, one of the world’s largest publicly-owned engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance (EPCM) contractors. 

Mr. Zack was previously Vice President of PinnacleOne and the Executive Director of the PinnacleOne Institute and a Senior Construction Claims Consultant for CH2M HILL, Inc.  Mr. Zack has, for more than 40 years, worked on both private and public projects.  In the construction claims field, he is a recognized and published expert in mitigation, analysis and resolution or defense of construction claims and disputes.  Mr. Zack has worked on claims and disputes throughout the United States and has also presented and worked on claims in US, Canada, Egypt, China; Germany, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, among over 3 dozen nations.  Mr. Zack has been involved in 1,000’s of claims throughout his career and has been designated as an expert witness in mediation, arbitration and litigation.  Mr. Zack is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International (FAACE) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS).  He is also a member of the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI).  He is a Certified Construction Manager (CCM); a Certified Forensic Claims Consultant (CFCC); and a Project Management Professional (PMP).  Mr. Zack is a Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering, International (AACEI).  Mr. Zack is a nationally known author, speaker and trainer concerning the management, mitigation and resolution of construction claims and disputes and has testified as an expert witness.

Jim Malkin is currently the Director IPM - International for Deltek. Previously the PMO Director for General Dynamics European Land Systems where he led the implementation of professional development, process development, project management tools and practices across the business for the entire project lifecycle from business capture through to project completion. Jim has over 18 years of project management experience across many industry sectors and has been volunteering for the Association for Project Management (APM) since 2002 and is a member of the Planning, Monitoring & Control Specific Interest Group (PMC-SIG).

Ken Phillips is a Project Controls Professional / Lead Planning Engineer who has worked in projects for many industries including infrastructure, marine facilities, oil & gas, refineries, petrochemicals, chemical, nuclear, conventional power, pharmaceuticals and wastewater. His experience includes all phases of engineering and design and extends through construction and commissioning. Familiar with a wide range of project controls, planning software and planning techniques. Over 15 years experience of Middle East Projects and International Projects.

Mark Lee is a Chartered Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in Defence and Aerospace, ten of which have been in consultancy with QinetiQ and Babcock International Group.  He has extensive engineering and project management experience in complex Defence Maritime projects, including the current and future UK Strategic Deterrent and the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carrier.  His risk management experience spans Defence Maritime, Air, Land and Weapons, and Oil & Gas.  An MSP® Registered Practitioner, Mark has also managed QinetiQ’s largest Space research programme, run a small consultancy practice and managed a £m portfolio of engineering support sub-contracts.  His career has taken him across Europe and as far afield as Canada and India.  Mark heads the Programme Assurance function within QinetiQ Procurement Advisory Services (QPAS), leading a team of specialists who deliver client advice and support across programme, project and risk management.  He is QinetiQ’s lead practitioner in Risk Management Maturity Assessment, having applied the QinetiQ Risk Maturity Model (QRMM) to benchmark risk proficiency and deliver risk improvement across MOD (in DE&S and at HQ level) and in Oil & Gas, in both the UK and India.

Mike Younger has been in Oil and Gas now for over 35 years since becoming an apprentice at the age of 16. He spent the first 8 years completing day release study to achieve an HNC and then a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He has spent all of these years in Project controls on the Contractors design side, starting in Cost Control and moving into project Controls management at the turn of the century. He has been the corporate head of project controls at KBR and more recently at Jacobs. He has a very balanced CV with half his career in the offshore sector, including 3 years working on North Sea Gas platform as well as onshore work. He has lived overseas in 6 countries and worked on some of the biggest projects across the world during his career. He has also worked on projects starting at just a preconcept study right through to operations of the plant, on one such project, the Leamn Alpha Compression job, he saw this through all stages over a 5 year period working in 3 different locations. 

Mike lives in Bagshot Surrey after moving from East London 

Richard Wood is a specialist in Project Controls design and implementation for asset intensive industries, with additional experience in IT Governance. Currently VP for International Development at Safran, Mr. Wood has a vision for closing the gap between 'just effective' project controls and 'best practice' process and technology adoption. In his long history with Oracle Corporation and now Safran, Mr. Wood has successfully mentored clients in adopting best-in-class technology solutions and advanced project controls practice in the Oil & Gas, Utilities, Engineering & Construction, and Public Infrastructure sectors.

Rob Horne is a partner at an international law firm and has specialised in finding solutions to project based problems in the construction industry for some 20 years. He represents and advises clients on major projects in the UK and internationally, particularly in the Middle East, on projects as diverse as PFI hospitals, oil and gas pipelines, major new rail connections and large scale mixed use developments. He sits as an adjudicator and arbitrator and is a recognised expert in the NEC form of construction contract. He is the author of the book "The Expert Witness in Construction" and a contributing author to the book "Human Dynamics in Construction Risk Management" as well as a regular speaker on a wide range of construction and project based topics.

Stephen Jones is the Chairman of the APM Planning, Monitoring and Control Specific Interest Group.  He is a Registered Project Professional, and a chartered Electrical Engineer.  His Project Management experience comes from the Nuclear Industry, where he is currently a Project Manager at Sellafield Ltd working for the Major Project directorate.  

Sellafield Ltd is the company responsible for safely delivering decommissioning of the UK’s nuclear legacy as well as fuel recycling and the management of low, high and intermediate level nuclear waste activities on behalf of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Sellafield Ltd has sites at Sellafield in West Cumbria.  Engineering, design and functional support capability are provided by employees based at their Risley office, near Warrington.

In addition Stephen is a lecturer at the University of Warwick, and a Supervisor on the Worked based Learning Masters Degree in Professional Engineering at Aston University and Kingston University London.  He mentors, Project Managers and Engineers in various industries, including Rail, Petrochemical, Manufacturing, Nuclear and conventional power generation both here in the UK and Indonesia.

Steve Elwell leads Strategic Advisory Services, the arm of QinetiQ’s Procurement Advisory Services (PAS) business that supports international clients across procurement, decision support and complex change management programmes.  He is a highly experienced director who has built a strong reputation for working with client teams to successfully deliver and implement complex programmes that involve a significant degree of change.  He has considerable experience in defence acquisition and advises both the public and private sector on acquisition issues.

Over the last 13 years, Steve has managed a number of large programmes across a range of industries and is experienced in providing his clients with a single point of contact in the delivery of high quality solutions.  He has operated in key leadership roles across the defence and security sector covering operational analysis, programme management, economic modelling, human factors and business growth.  He specialises in the development of output-based models and economic modelling solutions focused on the capture, analysis and modelling of data in order to achieve key business goals and continuously improve the performance of a business.

Steve Jewell is the Risk Management Practice Leader for Asset Performance Networks. Steve has over 38 years of experience in the oil and gas sector, of which more than 20 years has been spent in managing risk. He has implemented risk management at project, business and corporate levels. This work has included the development and implementation of risk policy and procedures, development & use of risk tools (risk identification and risk registers), facilitation of risk workshops and coaching / mentoring of teams. Prior to joining AP-Networks, Steve was Senior Risk Advisor at BP. In that role, he led a team that provided risk management guidance to teams across all businesses and facilitated risk workshops for BP’s megaprojects. Prior to that Steve spent over 20 years on upstream and downstream projects, with 10 years in an assurance role supporting the Chief Engineer by reviewing  cost estimates and schedules and running cost and schedule risk analysis in support of project sanction.

Steve is an accredited risk facilitator for several large oil and gas and mining companies and in the past 3 years has facilitated workshops for projects with a total capex of circa $200bn. Last year Steve provided executive education on risk management to two leading Oil & Gas majors in partnership with a leading Moscow University. Prior to that he developed and delivered risk management coaching as part of BP’s project management curriculum, including its flagship course at MIT in the USA. For over 10 years, he was also a guest lecturer on risk management and cost & schedule risk analysis at Imperial College, London.

Steve holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester in the UK.