Each year the CPD in Construction Committee hold an annual award lecture which, is organised by the member Institutions of the Committee in turn. The tradition commenced in 1988 with the lecture given by the late Prof. James Attwood, OBE, FCIOB who, was one of the founders of the Committee.
Since that time an annual award lecture has taken place in November/December of each year to which the Provost of Inverness, members of the Construction Professions and the public are invited. It is normally held in the fine INVERNESS TOWN HOUSE
Below is a list of the Award Lectures and the recipients of the Award which have taken place to date.
1988 CIOB Prof. J Attwood, OBE.
Sir Murdoch MacDonald, Civil Engineer and MP
1989 ICE P. Malcolmson
(held Jan 1990) Civil Engineering’s Contribution to the Highlands
1990 RIAS A.M. Grant
A Multi-Disciplined Practice in the Highlands
1991 RICS I.D. Gardiner
Quantity Surveying in Scotland
1992 I.Struct.E Prof. E.A. Bolton
Reducing Stress and Simplifying Practice
1993 RTPI D. Lyddon
Lessons from Oil
1994 IHT G.F. Storey
Highland Travel down the Ages
1995 CIWEM F.G. Johnson
Power from the Glens – 50 Years ON
1996 IEE R.A. Mathews
Scotland’s Trade Routes of the Future
1997 ICE A.A.C. Wallace
Fascination of Bridges
1998 C.I.ARB J.D. Spencley
Arbitration, Adjudication, Partnering & Others
1999 ICES Prof. D. Parker
Geomatics: The why and how and what’s where
2000 IOSH Margaret Burns
2001 IOM/CIOB Mike Archbold
2002 IMechE Prof. Ian Bryden and Prof. Peter Robinson
2003 IAA Michael Rolland and Michael Stares
2004 RICS David Sutherland
2005 IEE Prof Peter Cochrane
2006 EI/IMechE Prof John Irvine
Power to the People, fuel cells and the renewable energy economy
2007 RAeS Duncan Simpson
2008 IStructE Willie Dunbar
2009 IHT Ron Munro
2010 CIWEM Neil Kermode
2011 RTPI Grant Sword
2012 UHI Vice-Chancellor James Fraser (CPDC 25th Anniversary)
2013 ICE Andrew Ross
The Caledonian Canal & Scottish Canals
2014 CICES Stuart Thomas
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
2015 IOSH Prof John Cherrie
Occupational Cancer – no time to lose!
2016 IAA Andrew Wright
Joseph Mitchell – Highland Architect and Civil Engineer
2017 CIOB Michael Martin
Queensferry Crossing
2018 IET Johnny Ball
Wonders beyond Numbers
2019 EI Joan MacNaughton CBE
Climate change – is it too late to stop Armageddon?
2020 IStructE Robert Johnstone
Controlled Demolition and our Illustrious Scientific Forebears -On-line, videolink
2021 CIHT Frank Roach
(held Jan 2022) Railing Against Climate Change -on-line, videolink
2022 RTPI Adreain Gill
The Challenges of Decommissioning the Dounreay Site – In person, recorded
2023 RICS Calum MacPherson
The Inverness & Cromarty Firth Green Freeport
2024 UHI Ailsa Raeburn
What is the ‘Highland Problem’ of 2024?
2025 ICE Stuart MacKellar and Ben Adam
Inverness Castle Transformation – In person, recorded