Senior functionaries of Homes England, National Highways, the Building Safety Regulator, the Rail Standards Board, the Infrastructure & Projects Authority (IPA) and the 色猫直播 Industry Training Board (CITB) feature in the latest list of gongs, along with various private sector nabobs and worthies.
It is now Sir Peter Lauener, as the chair of the CITB is promoted from a Companion of the Order of the Bath to knight of the realm, although the recognition is for services to education rather than construction, recognising his earlier roles as chief executive of Education & Skills Funding Agency a board member of the Department for Education.
Joining the ranks of Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) are
Peter Denton, former chief executive of Homes England, for services to housing and to major urban regeneration, and Nick Smallwood, chief executive of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority until its recent restructure.
National Highways functionaries Melanie Clarke (health, safety and wellbeing director) and
Davin Crowley-Sweet (chief data officer 鈥� though he began his career as a heavy metal guitarist) both become Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), for services to roads.
Also getting OBEs are Bridget Eickhoff, principal infrastructure engineer at the Rail Safety & Standards Board and Debra Waite, head of regulatory improvement and operations chief of staff at the Building Safety Regulator.
The only citation for services to construction was a CBE for former Mace director Mark Holmes, who was until recently co-chair of Infrastructure Exports UK, another quango.
William Powrie, professor of geotechnical engineering at the University of Southampton, also gets a CBE, for services to engineering, as does Jo Bamford (son of Lord Bamford and grandson of JCB himself), for his promotion of hydrogen fuel.
The architecture profession received plenty of recognition this year, which is perhaps unsurprising given the king鈥檚 known interest in the field.
Veteran architects Julian Harrap and Eric Parry both get CBEs for services to architecture while the rather younger Gareth Stapleton, founder of Rise International, gets an OBE for services to architecture and to project and construction management
Other honourees in the private sector this year include Faith Wainwright, lately a director of Arup, who gets a CBE for services to engineering.
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