Peter Bill receives Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Award

Peter Bill’s continued contribution to journalism in the built environment was marked with the presentation of the first IBP Outstanding Contribution Award.

Peter is still in journalistic harness, having worked in the construction sector in many different forms, since leaving school at the age of 15 and starting to train as a surveyor in 1962.

A long-form career included 11 years with Wimpey, two with Anglo-American in Zambia, then eight years with a builder and housebuilder before his conversion to journalism, joining Contract Journal in 1983. After two years he was off to Building as features editor, rising up the ranks to become editor from 1990 to 1996, a highly  successful era for the magazine, when it won unprecedented numbers of awards including many IBP Journalism Awards.

A brief excursion in the City of London at Fleming Securities was followed by the editorship of the Estates Gazette, then a long period as a columnist on EG, but also in the general  public’s eye as the Evening Standard weekly property commentator.

An occasional columnist for Property Week, he also produces an acerbic daily twitter comment while working on his latest book.