Under the Presidency of Greg Markham, who took up the role two years ago this month, IHEEM has continued to significantly raise its profile among key opinion formers, strengthening its ties with influential bodies such as the Department of Health, the Sustainable Development Unit, The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, ProCure21+, and the Engineering Council, and with parliamentarians, senior civil servants, its international counterparts, and the architectural and construction supply chains.
Taking over the Presidency this month, highly experienced public health engineer, Chris Northey, will thus have much to build on. As he told HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, during a recent meeting at his employer, ChapmanBDSP’s London offices, he is particularly looking forward to ‘giving something back to the building services profession and the wider healthcare estates sector’, having ‘come a long way professionally’ since beginning his working life, aged 17, as an apprentice plumbing and heating engineer in his father’s Cornwall-based company.
When I met him recently at ChapmanBDSP’s Farringdon offices, Chris Northey admitted that, back in July 1987, when, he left school in Redruth with a clutch of good ‘O’ levels, and having always had ‘more than a passing interest’ in his father’s activities as a plumbing and heating engineer, he joined the family firm, he could never have envisaged such a varied and interesting career. Nor, he said, could he have imagined becoming professionally involved with so many leading building engineering Institutes, or winning a number of prestigious awards along the way.
Among the many highlights of his career to date had been receiving a medal from Prince Philip as the individual personally selected by the Prince from a national field as having most successfully built professionally upon his original City & Guilds training; leading the public health engineering design on a huge 600 retail unit, 58-storey hotel, and 88-storey residential tower mixed development scheme in Abu Dhabi; becoming a board member of SummitSkills, and chairman of its professional bodies forum for building services engineering; gaining the Freedom of the City of London; chairing the Society of Public Health Engineers (SoPHE), and working on the design of the Velopark as part of the London 2012 Olympics.
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