Plenty of challenges, great opportunities.

Under the Presidency of Greg Markham, who took up the role two years ago this month, IHEEM has continued to significantly raise its profile among key opinion formers, strengthening its ties with influential bodies such as the Department of Health, the Sustainable Development Unit, The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, ProCure21+, and the Engineering Council, and with parliamentarians, senior civil servants, its international counterparts, and the architectural and construction supply chains. Taking over the Presidency this month, highly experienced public health engineer, Chris Northey, will thus have much to build on. As he told HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie, during a recent meeting at his employer, ChapmanBDSP's London offices, he is particularly looking forward to 'giving something back to the building services profession and the wider healthcare estates sector', having 'come a long way professionally' since beginning his working life, aged 17, as an apprentice plumbing and heating engineer in his father's Cornwall-based company.