Executive Board Message 2021
I think you will all agree that it has been quite a year, but hopefully we should see a return to something that is, if not normal, then closer to normal life as we begin to pick-up the pieces and engage with colleagues and face-to-face business challenges.
The lockdown has given the IBP executive board a chance to reflect and review where we are as a membership organisation, and to look at how we might want to shape the role of the organisation going forward.
The executive board has lots of ideas and you will hear more about these initiatives over the next months as we prepare for this year’s journalism awards. If you have any ideas that you would like to share with the board please let me know by email to: Harriett.Hindmarsh@aecom.com
Harriett Hindmarsh
Chair, IBP
Peter Bill receives Outstanding Contribution to Journalism Award
Peter Bill 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.
Our new journalist had no time to waste. After two years at CJ 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 a reminder of the civilised nature of the world of IBP. Editorship of the Estates Gazette followed, then a long period as a columnist on EG, but also in the general public’s eye as the Evening Standard weekly property commentator.
Now an occasional columnist for Property Week, he also produces an acerbic daily twitter comment while working on his latest book, entitled Arrested Development, a follow-up to Planet Property, published in 2014.
Peter’s continued contribution to journalism in the built environment is marked with the presentation of the first IBP Outstanding Contribution Award.
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