CBE for AECOM bridge engineer

AECOM’s global long-span and specialty bridges director Robin Sham has been recognised with a CBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours.

He is one of a handful of business professionals to win recognition for their service to the industry.

A fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the City and Guilds of London Institute and the Royal Society of Arts, Sham is an advocate for the civil engineering profession.

During his career he worked on the Second Severn Crossing  and on the Aberfeldy Bridge in Scotland.

More recently he contributed to two of the world’s longest cable-stayed bridges – the Sutong and the Stonecutters Bridges – as well as the first long-span, three-pylon, continuous suspension bridge, the Taizhou Bridge, and one of the longest sea crossings built in recent history, the Second Penang Bridge.

In a year that featured many housing industry professionals, Marc Vlessing, chief executive of compact homes developer Pocket, was honoured with an OBE.

Rhona Quinn, president of the Construction Employers Federation in Northern Ireland, also receives an OBE.

Other honours in the housing industry include CBEs for Jo Boaden, chief executive of the Northern Housing Consortium in Newcastle, Stephen Howlett, the former chief executive of Peabody, and Andrew Robertson chair of the LAR Housing Trust in Scotland.

Among the New Year’s list of MBEs, home Builders Federation deputy chairman Peter Andrew and Clifford Perry, railway expert at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, both received recognition.

from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2017/12/31/cbe-for-aecom-bridge-engineer/

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