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ICW is pleased to announce that Its CEO Frank Lee has been appointed as one of the International Judges for the Big 5 Global Impact Awards 2023.

Big 5 Global Impact Awards, now in their 3rd year, recognise sustainable development, technological, and digital achievements in the construction industry in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA).

As CEO of ICW, Frank Lee said that he is honoured to be asked to be a judge at these important awards, which recognise innovation and sustainability in the construction industry, and is very much looking forward to seeing the submissions.

For further information on the awards follow the link below:

https://www.big5global.com/the-big-5-impact-awards

ICW has for the 2023 Awards added a new Category:

Collaboration enabling Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

This award is to recognise the growing work being done in all industries in pursuit of best practice in working collaboratively to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities, and no-one is treated differently or discriminated against because of their personal characteristics. That they are recognised, valued because of their different backgrounds, knowledge, skills, and experiences. where differences between people and groups are seen as a benefit. And where people feel comfortable to share their perspectives and differences, knowing that their opinions and ideas are valued.

This New Category joins the existing 10 Categories:

1. Industry Collaboration
2. Public Sector
3. Public-Private Collaboration
4. Supply Chain
5. Innovation
6. Collaboration in Defence
7. Social Impact
8. Sustainability
9. Collaborative Leadership
10. Infrastructure

For further details and information on how to submit a submission for one of the ICW Awards follow this link.

ICW welcomes National Highways as the latest addition to our Executive Network membership. National Highways Ltd has an outstanding collaborative pedigree, working with highways suppliers, fostering the right relationships, proactively engaging their suppliers and developing capability with their supply chains in a way that drives real value. Their experience, expertise and commitment to promoting collaborative working to generate better outcomes will be an invaluable resource to our members.

National Highways, along with our friends at LCRIC and other Executive Network members, will form the nucleus of a new, wider Collaboration forum in the highways sector. This new platform will look at how to best share learning and overcome challenges to improve collaboration in support of the UK highway network and a more connected country. The forum will link into an overall infrastructure forum where we plan to spread best collaborative practices across the whole infrastructure sector.

ICW recognises Pietro Foschi, Group Executive Director for BSI Assurance Services Division, with the Collaborative Leader of the Year 2023 award.

In his address, ICW's CEO Frank Lee recognised that in the past the Collaborative Leader Award was presented at the end of the year so he wanted to break that tradition and start a new one where ICW recognised the winner at the May reception.

ICW has worked with Pietro over a number of years and he has always supported the ethos and work of the institute. He has been an example to all of us of true collaborative leadership, applying it in all aspects of his working practice.

It gave ICW enormous pleasure for ICW's Chairman Lord Evans to present to Pietro The Collaborative Leader of the Year 2023 Award.

The Kier Group, in Partnership with ICW, has rolled out its membership across the whole group of Kier Companies.

Kier Highways has been an ICW member since 2016 and holds an Ambassador role lead by Louise McMahon, the Strategy & Business Improvement Director.

Kier's group membership will provide all the group with access to unrivalled expertise in several areas, including collaborative working practices and sustainability.

At a Lunch to celebrate this milestone in the relationship between ICW and Kier, ICW Chairman Lord David Evans hosted Andrew Davies, Chief Executive, and Joe Incutti, the Group Managing Director, along with Louise McMahon and ICW's CEO Frank lee at the House of Lords.

Andrew Davies said: "The ICW aligns well with our values of being collaborative, trusted, and focused. We have seen the positive impact it has had on our Highways business, providing us with crucial insights on collaborative working with our supply chain partners. I look forward to these benefits being extended across the Group."

Frank Lee said that he looked forward to developing the relationship with the Kier group and thanked Andrew for Kier's continued support and involvement in the Institute.

On behalf of the ICW Community at home and overseas, we send our HEARTFELT Greeting to His Majesty King Charles III on the occasion of his Coronation in Westminster Abbey.

We wish him a long, happy, and glorious reign
and say with heart and voice:
"God save the King!"

ICW is delighted to welcome Copello as new members to the Institute, and welcome Lisa Pinhorne and Russell Baker and their team to our Executive Network.

Frank Lee, ICW's CEO, said "I am sure it will be a great benefit to The ICW members to have a collaborative STEM recruiter within the ICW Executive Network. Copello's forward-thinking approach and desire to build excellent collaborative relationships with their clients to help with their Talent challenges has particularly impressed us."

Adrian Miller ICW's Membership Director added "We are looking forward to working with Copello and their input in our collaborative forums and at our executive networking events."

ICW's CEO Frank Lee recently accepted an invitation by Executive Network member Sellafield's Chief Supply Chain Officer Susan Lussem to visit their site in Warrington, where here he was able to see first-hand what they are doing in the area of Social Value.

Sellafield are at the forefront of using a collaborative approach to generate social value into the community of which they are a part. The visit also gave Frank the opportunity to learn more about Sellafield's award winning (ICW Awards 2022) collaborative approach with their supply chain partners to innovate and address some of the most technical challenges faced by any sector.

Frank then had the opportunity to explore with the Sellafield team, and some of their supply chain partners, how we at The ICW can support them in delivering the added value they are determined to realise.

In the Photo with Frank are: Susan Lussem, Andy Van Schaick, Francis Worthington, and Mike Houghton.

ICW's CEO Frank Lee: "It was my great pleasure, along with our Membership Services Director Adrian Miller, to meet with Molly Richards and Elsie Taylor at Babcock International this week. Molly and Elsie gave us an invaluable insight into Babcock's impressive graduate programme and the opportunities it brings for both young professionals and their organisation.

"A key aim for the ICW is to widen our appeal to a new generation of professionals, so a better appreciation of early careers development initiatives and the guidance that participants can give us, is a key to helping us better understand how we can support the development of the next generation of collaborative leaders. We learnt a tremendous amount listening to the perspectives of Elsie and Molly and we look forward to working with them, as well as our other members to whom this is a key topic, to help shape our Institute for the future.

A meeting was hosted at The House of Lords by our Chairman Lord David Evans, for our CEO Frank Lee to meet with one of our members Spencer West. Spencer West are a quite unique firm of Lawyers who believe that collaboration with partners and clients is a key way to provide an enhanced legal experience for all involved.

One area that they discussed was the opportunity that contracts designed to encourage collaboration could bring to add value to business relations as opposed to the more traditional type of contract, This is a topic Spencer West and ICW agreed to continue to work on and shar with our members.

Antoine West from Spencer West said "We are excited to be working with ICW and as their first law firm member. At Spencer West, collaboration is a core value of our firm, and we are keen to be working with ICW to develop tools supportive of collaborative third party engagement".

Along with Antoine West we were joined by Clare Waller & Natalie Knight-Wickens.