CEW Board
Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has chaired CEW for two years and is construction programme director for the Welsh Government. He says, “The main goal of CEW is to disseminate best practice within the industry using the Latham and Egan reports as its basis. The big issue facing us is embracing change, collaborative ways of working and benchmarking performance.”
Chris Gray
Chris Gray is chairman and managing director for C. D. Gray & Associates and a board member for six months. “The goal of CEW is to improve the performance of everyone in the construction industry and the board’s role is to help get the message across that a collaborative and partnered approach to working is the best way forward.”
Iwan Jenkins
Iwan Jenkins is an associate at Morgan Cole and a board member since April 2008. He says that: “The role of this board is to support CEW in achieving its goal and to be the ‘shop window’ for the industry in Wales. The biggest issue is to meet the Egan agenda against the backdrop of slower economic growth.”
Andrew Wedlake
Andrew Wedlake is operations manager for Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd. A board member for nearly two years, he is the chairman of the South Wales CE Club. “I believe the biggest issue facing us is the impending recession and the challenge for everyone to maintain to avoid a return to lowest price tendering and traditional adversarial contracts.”
Rhodri-Gwynn Jones
Rhodri-Gwynn Jones has been involved with construction for over 35 years, most of which he spent in local government, latterly as executive director-environment with Bridgend County Borough Council. He is a chartered engineer and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and was appointed director and secretary of the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (Wales) Ltd. He joined the CEW board in April 2008.
Keith Jones
Keith Jones is director, Institution of Civil Engineers Wales Cymru, representing over 3,300 Civil Engineers in Wales and a board member since spring 2009. Before being appointed director of the ICE he was operational manager highways at the Vale of Glamorgan Council, where he was responsible for all highways and maintenance operations including management of the DSO contractor contracting unit.
Ian Layzell
Ian Layzell is an architect and heads up the Integrate Consortium of eight housing associations in Wales. Previously he worked at the Welsh Assembly promoting construction best practice and has over thirty years experience of the construction industry as consultant and client.
Stella Saunders
Stella Saunders is an architect and is CDM coordinator/architect and project manager for Cardiff Council. She is Chairman of the Association of Project Safety Wales Region CPD Committee and past Chairman of the South Wales Construction Safety Group.
Trefor Williams
Trefor is Deputy Head of Department Environmental Technology, Construction and Management at the University of Glamorgan, and chairman of the South East Wales Best Practice Club. He says “The recession and changes to Government spending policies are major challenges that the industry has to respond to. I believe that Constructing Excellence principles are needed now more than ever if the industry is to survive and prosper in these very difficult trading conditions”.