Institute of Construction Management names their Manager of the Year for 2013

The IConstM, of which John is a Fellow, has decided upon the winner of their Manager of the Year for this year.

Clifton Brown – Manager of the Year 2013
Cliff has been a very active member of the Institute since the late 1980s when he was nominated for membership. He immediately immersed himself in South East Region activities and became the Region’s Delegate on the Governing Council when meetings were still being held in London.

Cliff was elected Junior Vice President of the Institute in 1998 and was the first President to hold office for two years for which he received a Fellowship, having changed the structure of the ICM to its present form. After his Presidency Cliff continued to attend meetings as the South East Region Delegate but later took on the role of Director of Education. He is an active member of the South East Region, at one time holding the offices of Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and Social Secretary.

Cliff worked his way through the ranks with James Longley, from labourer to Ganger Man to Site Manager. His career has spanned every aspect of construction having been involved in refurbishment/rebuild, enabling work and small to multi-million pound projects.

Through undertaking every course and lecture available to him Cliff has obtained a very wide knowledge of construction and has always given 101% to every job he has been involved with whether costing a few thousand pounds or multi-million pounds, even on two occasions living for several months on site in a cabin when vandalism threatened the buildings.

Wanting to experience working abroad Cliff took a six month contract working in Gibraltar. On his return to England he was employed as a Project Manager, a post he held for five years during which time he was involved in various building projects the last being the building of prestigious flats in four phases each phase coming out on time and on budget.

Earlier this year when work dried up for his office, he was made redundant but after a very short break he commenced work on a site locally being employed to manager the building of luxury flats on an idyllic site overlooking the sea.