The Heating and Ventilating Contractors Association (HVCA) has appointed Blane Judd as its chief executive designate. The post was created following the decision of current chief executive Robert Higgs OBE to retire at the Association’s AGM on 21 July this year (HEJ – April 2011).
A Chartered Engineer and fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Blane Judd brings with him “very considerable experience” of the energy and building services engineering sectors. He served as operations director of sector skills council SummitSkills from 2003 to 2006, and, for the past five, has been chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE), which he led, in 2008, to the achievement of a Royal Charter. He can also claim significant expertise in trade organisations, having spent a decade with the Electricity Association, where he rose to become director of education standards and training. Blane Judd will officially take over as HVCA chief executive on 25 July.
