Profile
Jim Goddard is the Business Development Manager for Approved Design Consultancy Ltd, Corporate Approved Inspector.
Formed in 1997, Approved Design Consultancy is established as a leading national building control practice.
An experienced and highly qualified practice satisfying the government’s rigorous licensing requirements to act as an Approved Inspector, enabling the practice to certify compliance with Building Regulation standards for a wide range of building types and uses.
Jim has worked in the building industry for over 40 years, the majority of these years being spent in Local Authority Building Control and has accumulated a vast depth of knowledge in building control and other aspects of the building industry during that time.
Starting his career as a Trainee Design Draughtsman at Crittal-Hope in Smethwick he quickly realised that the drawing board was not going to be part of his future. He moved to and spent 5 years at Wolverhampton MBC as a Building Control Officer before moving up to Dudley MBC as a Senior Building Control Officer for a further 6 years.
In 1984 Jim moved on again to Birmingham City Council as a Senior Building Control Officer quickly being promoted to Assistant Manager for one of the 3 teams and then on to Technical Manager for the organisation. Over the past 28 years at Birmingham he has gained an enormous amount of experience in the building control field on all types of major development projects
Sitting on British Standards committees over the years has enabled him to be at the forefront of new construction related legislation.
Jim was formally Technical Manager with Birmingham City Council Building Control and had a very wide and varied workload, including hands-on supervision of large building projects, high-rise developments, shopping centres, prisons and Grade 1 listed building projects, training of new staff and developing existing staff, local and national seminar presentations, keeping up to date with the latest legislation and technical issues as well as presenting technical advice to other city departments.
Now working with Approved Design Consultancy Jim is working alongside highly qualified and knowledgeable Building Control professionals providing a Building Regulations bespoke service to clients from initial design stage through to final completion of building projects.
Feedback
* I was amazed at how much Jim covered, a very good speaker, a lot to take in, but learnt a lot on the day
* Absolutely excellent in-depth training course. Very knowledgeable presenter. A lot to think about
* The benefits will be used everyday on every site. Much more confident in understanding what building regulations are
* Cleared up many grey areas
* Very good speaker with a good all round knowledge of his subject
* A fantastic overview of very complex subjects, speaker was excellent
