The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has inaugurated Professor John Nolan as its new chairman at the 100th meeting of its Council Members.
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) has inaugurated Professor John Nolan as its new chairman at the 100th meeting of its Council Members.
He succeeds Tony Burton, senior partner at Gardiner & Theobald, in this role for a two year term of office starting with immediate effect. Tony now becomes deputy chairman for a year in accordance with CIC’s rules and byelaws.
Mr Nolan is a past president of the Institution of Structural Engineers and a Fellow of that Institution and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is also a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Innovation at the University of Birmingham and a Chartered Engineer, with more than 40 years of experience in the construction industry.
He started his career as a labourer and progressed to become a founder of two successful engineering consultancies, one of which, Nolan Associates, he still chairs. He has been responsible for projects up to the value of £300m, including almost all elements of the built environment. He is also one of the founders and chairman of a property development firm and is a non-executive director of a power company. John’s particular interests are innovation, factory engineered construction and value engineering.