ECI is staffed by engineering and construction professionals from a wide variety of sectors.
Michel Virlogeux
ECI President
Michel is a globally renowned engineer and has designed and built some of the world’s most famous bridges. He is a graduate and a visiting professor of the prestigous École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France.
He has been awarded the ”Award of Excellence of the Engineering News Record’ (1995), the ‘Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ (1979), the Gold Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2005) and the ‘Gustave Magnel Medal’ (1999).
He received the 2003 IABSE Award of Merit in Structural Engineering in recognition of his major contributions leading to very significant progress in the field of civil engineering. Michel has been president of ECI since 2007.
Professor Ron McCaffer
ECI Chair
Ron McCaffer is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building.
Ron was instrumental in setting up ECI in the early nineties and has long been an advocate of the need for the clients, consultants and contractors in engineering construction to join together in collaborative work to mutual benefit.
He held the post of Professor of Construction Management at Loughborough University from 1986 through to 2009.He is currently working as an adviser on university infrastructure projects in the Middle East and Africa.
Professor Naomi Brookes
Royal Academy of Engineering and European Construction Institute Professor of Complex Project Management
Naomi Brookes holds the Royal Academy of Engineering and the European Construction Institute Chair of Complex Project Management at Loughborough University, UK. She also currently has operational responsibility for all of ECI ‘s activities and reports on these the ECI Chair and the ECI Executive Board.
Naomi’s extensive experience with project management includes working as a practitioner, a consultant and an academic. Her first roles involved working with new product development projects in the aerospace industry with Rolls-Royce plc.
As the managing partner of MORES, a research-development consultancy, she worked on technology transfer projects between universities and industry at a regional and national level.
On becoming an academic at Aston University, UK, Naomi set-up the Centre for Project Management Practice. This brought together project practitioners from the construction, automotive and aerospace sectors along with colleagues in the public and voluntary sectors to discuss and to share project best practice.
Naomi’s current role with ECI is enabling her to combine research on the best way to manage engineering construction projects with the ability to transfer those ideas to the practitioner organisations who can really make thing happen!
Anu Khandelwal
ECI Marketing & Events Coordinator
Anu is the Marketing and Events Coordinator for ECI.
She has a degree in Business Studies from Hull University in the UK and is ECI’s longest serving employee having joined ECI ten years ago in 2000.
In her spare time, Anu enjoys martial arts and is the proud possesor of a black belt!
ECI Consultants
Charles Botsford
Charles has degrees from Cambridge University and Imperial College and has been an independent best practice and management consultant since 1990.
For four years Charles was the Construction Adviser to HM Treasury, where he worked with the construction industry, central government departments and the wider public sector to implement the recommendations made in the 1994 Latham Report “Constructing the Team” and the 1998 Egan Report “Rethinking Construction”.
Charles was involved in the ACTIVE Initiative between 1998 and 2000.
Howard Lawrence
Howard Lawrence is a freelance Project Management Consultant with over 38 years experience in project management and public procurement practice including PPP and Prime Contracting.
His achievements include the successful delivery of major infrastructure and business/organisational change projects.
Clive Winkler
Following some 30 years experience as a Chartered Engineer, Clive set up as an independent practitioner to promote best practice.
Having had responsibility with a national contractor for the execution of a wide range of major projects he went on to develop the company’s approach to collaborative working and the procedures for managing its supply chain.
Clive has close associations with a number of organisations. He managed CIRIA’s Construction Productivity Network (CPN) for several years developing their programme of best practice improvement workshops and is currently assisting ECI in coordinating some of the research task forces and managing its Masterclass programme.
Clive is a BIS Benchmark Index accredited facilitator, a Qualified NVQ Assessor and a Construction Best Practice Programme Advisor.
ECI Researchers
Lars Baumann
Lars Baumann is a part-time researcher with ECI looking at the impact of national culture on project management practice.
Lars work has involved him in a wide variety of cross-cultural project management activities in countries as diverse as Algeria, Libya and Kuwait providing IT for the energy and construction sectors.
He is a self employedConsultant and Visiting Professor of Project Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover.
ECI Honorary Fellows
Honorary Fellow status is awarded to nominated individuals in special circumstances in recognition of the considerable value, service and support they have given to ECI during the time that they have been associated with ECI.
The Honorary Fellow class of membership enables ECI to publicly acknowledge the value that has been added by individuals in the development of ECI over a considerable period of time. This could have resulted from the personal involvement, support and contribution given to specific ECI activities or in the way that the individual has continually promoted ECI’s aims and values, and/or the benefits that ECI has brought to the Engineering and Construction Industry through its members.
Honorary status applies for the lifetime of the individual irrespective of whether he or she continues to be employed by an ECI Member Company.