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Our Speakers

With our background in the competitive and challenging environment of the construction and property industries, our speakers at the Construction Study Centre bring a wealth of practical knowledge, industry experience and academic qualifications to their fields of expertise in order to ensure that your team get the most from your training course.

When preparing their courses all of our speakers understand that to keep motivation and morale high, you must build on your competitive advantage and invest in people. So they create detailed and challenging programmes.

Details on each of our speakers can be found in the brief descriptions below.

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Speakers 7 to 12 of 15

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Larry Russen, BSc FRICS FBEng MFPWS PGCE
Category: Building Surveys
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Profile Larry is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Director in a firm of chartered surveyors that specialise in commercial and residential building surveying, building design, management of construction and building contracts, energy assessment and defects analysis. He is a Director of BlueBox partners and an assessor, internal verifier and trainer for NES SAVA. Larry has co-written two books for RICS Books and is also advisory editor for ‘RICS Home Surveys – a Surveyor’s guide’ by Phil Parnham and ‘RICS Survey Writer sample phrases for the RICS condition report’, by Phil Parnham, both published in 2011 by RICS Books. He is the author of the RICS isurv section on building surveys.

Malcolm Thomas BSc(Hons) DipTP FRICS MIFSM
Category: Planned building maintenance, Business management, Education & Training,
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Profile EXPERTISE, SKILLS and KNOWLEDGE • Planned building maintenance • Building defect investigation • Risk assessment for statutory compliance eg fire safety, health & safety • Project management of refurbishment and retrofit • Building surveys for due diligence, dilapidations, condition assessments • Education & Training • Business management 40 years’ experience in construction, property and estate management, professional surveying, business, management and teaching. Broad experience in maintenance and repairs, refurbishment, retrofit and professional work. Specialist knowledge in property asset management, planned maintenance, IT applications and building surveys. Building project experience in most sectors. International experience in Asia Pacific and Spain. Regular training presenter and writer in the UK, Europe, Malaysia, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand

Matthew Hill, BSc, cNLP, TMC accred
Category: Negotiation Skills; Communication Skills: Teamwork: Management Skills
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Profile Matthew Hill is a senior Trainer and Executive Coach, helping directors and managers get to their goals in difficult economic and commercial circumstances. His training sessions are high energy, interactive and humorous, focusing on the issues and skills of the participants. The aim is to bring out the best from the delegates in a safe and enjoyable environment to maximise their learning experience. His teachings centre on the power of language to change business outcomes. Matthew Hill has 20 years experience in International business working with such companies as Atkins, Balfour Beatty and General Electric. Matthew writes for, presents and speaks at the BBC, SIETAR, the CIPD, the ECIA, the IOD, Human Capital Management Magazine, HR Director Magazine, European CEO Magazine, The Belgian, Hungarian and Australian / New Zealand Embassies and Chambers of Commerce and the Frost and Sullivan Excellence Awards. He has worked with 100’s of senior managers from 40 countries in 20 territories and managed people from more than 12 different nationalities. Certified Practitioner of NLP BSc(Hons) Psychology – London Hiltrop Negotiator TMC Assessment Accreditation Feedback * Excellent speaker, very interactive * Excellent presenter, made it an enjoyable day * Exceeded my expectations and more. Speaker Matthew Hill was excellent

Mike Rhodes MCIOB
Category: Procurement
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Profile Mike has worked in the construction industry for over thirty years. He is a highly motivated, independent and self-reliant manager with major project achievements and substantial experience in the Higher Education, Retail and Leisure sectors. With a life-long involvement in the building industry first as a Surveyor in both housing and general maintenance practice, then as a Project Manager, he is totally committed to the establishment of construction as a client orientated profession. Working for Whitbread Procurement, Mike pioneered the partnering approach on TGI Friday’s following Sir Michael Latham’s Report “Constructing the Team” in 1994. As Head of Projects at the Open University from 2003, Mike headed up a number of new building and refurbishment works. He set up the Framework which successfully carried out all the Capital Projects from 2008 to 2010 which was Highly Commended at the Construction Excellence London and South East Awards 2011 for Integrated and Collaborative Work. Mike is currently Director of Coaction Management Ltd and is devoted to best practice procurement in the construction industry; advising construction clients on how to get better value from their buildings by helping teams work better together with common goals.

Nigel Clayton, DipArb, FCIArb, FInstCES, MRICS, MAPM
Category: NEC, JCT, Contracts, Project Management, Commercial Awareness
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Profile Nigel joined BrunswickIS which is part of the Alway Group of companies in March 2003 as a Senior Consultant and has subsequently been made a Director. His workload has included commercial management for sub contractors, main contractors, developers and Local Authority Employer. He has also represented parties in adjudications. He is also fulfilling project management duties on a variety of projects and is currently deployed as Employers Agent on a large new build project having advised the employer through all stages of the project. He is also a regular speaker for Construction Study Centre as well as providing open breakfast seminars and in-house full day seminars in a variety of construction related topics. His delegates have included local and regional contractors, sub contractors, developers and specialist trades as well as construction professionals such as architects, surveyors and engineers. Prior to his appointment with BrunswickIS, Nigel was Group Commercial Manager of the Thyssen (Great Britain) Ltd group of companies and was appointed Director responsible for establishing an office and workload in Ireland. Thyssen worked mainly in the infrastructure sector undertaking water, rail, road, civil engineering and tunnelling projects. During this time Nigel, along with the personnel organised and developed the Human Resources of the management delivering regular training to staff and supply chain partners on topics including, management techniques, partnering, forms of contract, commercial awareness, commercial quantity surveying and company procedures. Nigel has had significant success commercially managing projects and teams in the infrastructure sector. He has good communication, presentation and is strong in both commercial and project management skills. Feedback * Just a quick note to thank you very much for the seminar yesterday. It was one of the best I have attended – ticked every box for me. The day flew and I found it informative, interesting and exceedingly useful * Trainer very knowledgeable, shared real experience. * Very thorough delivery & very informative. Nigel was excellent ! * Very good, interactive and easily followed. Hit our audience well – could develop for others in company * Nigel was careful to tailor the contract to our requirements/experience * Very well presented, kept you interested and alert, good examples & analogies

Paul E M Gray, BSc, CEng, MICE, CMIOSH, IMaPS
Category: Health & Safety responsibilities; CDM
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Profile Paul is a Health, Safety & Construction Consultant; Chartered Engineer & Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner. A former Technical Director with Scott Wilson; he now practises as Consultant to Construct Safe Ltd and speaks on CDM and Health & Safety related topics at many locations around the UK. Paul is competent in providing training, guidance, advice and assistance in occupational and construction health & safety; in particular presenting training courses associated with the CDM Regulations. He has recently developed a half day course for us entitled 'A Health & Safety Update for Senior Executives' which is suitable to run in-house and our new CDM for Designers course which has been run sucessfully in-house for a Wales based Architects practice and is now being trialled on next term's public courses. Feedback * Paul had very good knowledge and has highlighted a number of management issues to be pursued, a real eye-opener regarding CDM * Gave me additional information to improve our current CDM procedures. Good detail on the subject. Very useful to speak with Paul prior to the event to ensure course content (is) tailored to our requirements * Excellent overview of the regulations and the ACoP and included additional information from client and PC/C perspective. * Enjoyed the course - Very Knowledgeable Instructor - Well worth Attending * Very comprehensive course, knowledgeable trainer, lots to review in the work place * Enthusiastically presented course with great knowledge and insight from speaker * The speaker made the course very intersting. He has VERY sound knowledge on the subject (CDM) and delivered the training really well - excellent. * Paul certainly knows his stuff * Speaker posed some interesting questions which made many colleagues think about what we do * The content of the course was of a high standard and the speaker was very knowledgeable in this area * The speaker constructively questioned the company's current processes; highlighting strengths & weaknesses. Made it relevant to our job role * Very comprehensive overview of CDM Regs. Speaker had vast knowledge of regs. Well impressed * Very knowledgeable fellow

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