A strong gathering of IHEEM members, senior representatives from London livery companies, construction companies, architects, consulting engineers, and equipment suppliers, a number attending on behalf of Company Affiliates, gathered in Westminster on the evening of 18 November to hear the Institute’s new President, Chris Northey, give his inaugural Presidential Address.
Speaking in the Manufacturing Room at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, he described the development of his own career as a professional engineer, and outlined his thoughts on IHEEM’s key short-to-medium term priorities, as he saw them. The evening also saw the presentation of a number of the IHEEM Awards for 2014. HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, reports.
Chris Northey, who began his engineering career when he joined his father’s family plumbing and heating company in Cornwall in 1987, and has subsequently gained wide-ranging experience with companies including Oscar Faber, Zisman Bowyer & Partners, and Chapman BDSP, is a highly experienced public health services engineer with a BEng (Hons) in Building Services Engineering Design & Management. A Chartered Engineer, and a member of IHEEM since 2004, his current-day role is associate, team leader, of ChapmanBDSP’s Public Health Engineering Division, based in London.
The winner of a number of industry awards, including the 2011 Prince Philip City & Guilds Medal – which he received from the Duke of Edinburgh himself in May 2011 – Chris Northey is also an avowed champion of good building services engineering design. He officially took over as IHEEM’s President from Greg Markham at the Institute’s 2014 AGM at October’s Healthcare Estates 2014 show (the October 2014 HEJ incorporated a full profile).
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