ICM President Les Helliwell has been a busy man

Institute of Construction Management President Les Helliwell has been a busy man presenting Fellowship scrolls and the Manager of the Year Award. Here's what he has to say about his recent activity.

As National President of our Institute, one of the highlights of my tenure is to present awards to deserving members and this year has been quite momentous for me personally, First, I had tremendous pleasure in presenting the Manager of the year award for 2012/2013 to Clifton Brown FIConstM who, whilst carrying out sterling work on our Executive committee as Director of Education has also fulfilled his role as a Construction Manager with a Nationwide Company handling to completion, within some onerous time frames, projects in the Southern Region to a the highest standards required from his employers clients. He recently took on further challenges with a new company which requires even more of his undoubted talents and organization skills so congratulations Cliff.

My next presentation was the Institute Fellowship to Carl Holden who became a member in 1978 and has been in our Industry from the tender age of 15 until retirement. He is a time served Joiner, advancing to site foreman, site manager and site agent until joining the Department of Environment as a technical officer. Carl has supported the Institute at local level for many years and is still active on the Northern committee and at all CPD lectures. Many thanks for all the good work.


Having tried to get Carl together with my third presentation eventually proved successful and I was able to present Peter Jones with his Fellowship award at a local CPD night with Tata Steel. Peter or ‘Percy’ as he has always been known to us due to too many Peter Jones’ when first employed is also a time served joiner with various mantles as foreman, general foreman and manager during his working life depending on what was required in the site structures. He worked for many years for a company called M.Harrisons in Leeds, This company served as a breeding ground for ICM members who were drafted in by some of our now deceased predecessors and we have had many a laugh whilst remembering some of the ‘good old days’ as we still retain a half dozen or so members from the 70s in the Northern and Scottish Region.

It gave me great pleasure to present Peter (Percy) Jones with a Fellowship award following long service to the Institute, Percy joined the Institute as a Foreman Joiner in the 70s along with many others who worked at Harrison and Co in Leeds, Harrisons was a source of many of our member's at the time and we all have many a laugh after meetings when recalling some great times back in the day when building was in its ascendency.

As in the above picture I was also pleased to present Carl Holden with his Fellowship award whilst attending a visit to the Sheffield Based acclaimed company Kingkraft who, whilst demonstrating some of their innovate assisted bathing equipment, were kind enough to provide refreshments for this award. Carl also joined our Institute in The 70s and went through time served apprenticeship and management ranks to become a Technical Officer with the Dept. Of Environment.