IDE Back On Track

IDE members have noticed that, following the resignation of Valerie Stroud in February of this year, new President Steve Jack has had a few issues to deal with and, with the help of Vice President Duncan Rudall, Stuart Accleton and the rest of the Management Council those issues have now been resolved.

Comments have been made that the IDE was losing the momentum built up over the last 5 years and the lack of a media presence, with no website and twitter feed, was not helping to recruit new members and keep existing members informed. I can assure you that those comments have been addressed.

First job was to recruit a new National Secretary to replace Valerie and we now have Maureen Tong-Ralphs in post and working well. Maureen has recruited a new assistant so that administration in the office can now be back to normal.

The IDE website is now up and running with news feeds but it is having a full revamp and re-launch in the next few weeks so keep visiting the site and wait for the re-launch.

The @IDEPresident Twitter feed is now working again and Maureen will tweet news for the IDE office on a daily basis.

It has been a difficult few months but the IDE is Back!

Second Demolition Conference in Turkey now confirmed

Readers of this site will know that John was scheduled to speak at the KHL Demolition Conference in Turkey in March, but his presentation was actually delivered by Stuart Accleton following the downturn in health of John's Dad.

The conference was obviously a great success as KHL have announced that they intend to return to Istanbul on 10 April 2014 for another conference.

The one day Demolition Conference Turkey 2014 will take place at the same venue as this year, the Marriott Asia Hotel in Istanbul and will include presentations from both Turkish and UK companies.

Full details of the event organised jointly by KHL Group and its Turkish publishing partner, Apa Yayincilik, can be found at the KHL website.

A new beginning for the IDE

This Thursday at 9.00am will see the IDE Council of Management meet in full for the first time since the sudden resignation of Valerie Stroud following the successful seminar in Leeds at the end of February.

The council, under the leadership of Steve Jack, will sit for the first time since the bombshell resignation and plan IDE activities, consider membership applications and address member concerns.

For the new National Secretary, Maureen Tong-Ralphs, it will be first time that she has met or spoken to many council members so it will give them the opportunity to meet her and welcome her into the position. Maureen was recruited following a lengthy series of interviews by President Steve Jack, Vice President Duncan Rudall and Stuart Accleton and she is now working her way through the backlog of work left behind when Valerie Stroud resigned.

Items for discussion at the council remain confidential, but I can tell you that the events team will discuss the forthcoming Demo Expo 2013, the OGGS Seminar booked for Friday 27 September and the AGM and annual luncheon booked for Friday 15 November.