Safety Risk Advisory Group: putting the building safeguards recommendations into action

Julie Wood

Julie Wood is the 162^nd President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, representing the profession in conversations with government, business and society.

A civil and structural engineer and one of 13 Global Fellows at Mott MacDonald, she has led some of the most complex infrastructure projects and programmes.

Her work focuses on improving how infrastructure is considered, planned, designed and delivered through systems thinking, engineering judgement and better decision-making.

Dr Ohis Ilalokhoin

In his role at Cardinal Engineering, Dr Ohis Ilalokhoin is responsible for the engineering aspects of major railway infrastructure projects, both in the UK and overseas. He is currently leading the delivery of asset management programmes for major railway stations and complex buildings in Network Rail’s Southern region.

Ilalokhoin is also involved in research into the risks facing critical transport systems. As part of this work, he has developed novel system-of-systems methods and models for assessing the resilience of national railway networks.
 
A member of the ICE’s trustee board, Ilalokhoin is chair of the institution’s learning society portfolio, with responsibility for its strategic knowledge programmes. He also chairs the institution’s safety risk advisory group.

Julie Bregulla

Julie is chief technical officer at the British Board of Agrément (BBA), which she joined in 2023. She oversees the quality and assurance teams, supporting the BBA in driving industry safety and quality through providing services that help clients by enabling innovation, identifying risk and demonstrating fitness-for-purpose. Julie has previously worked at TEDI-London (the Engineering and Design Institute London) and BRE (the Building Research Establishment). She is also a former ICE Trustee. 

Prof Tim Broyd

Andy Alder

Andy is Jacobs Vice President for Major Projects and Programmes in the UK. He is also Programme Director for Tideway, where he is responsible for delivery of all infrastructure on the project.

Andy joined Tideway from Crossrail where he was Chief Tunnel Engineer during the detailed design phase, managed procurement of a number of the tunnelling contracts, and was Project Manager for construction of all tunnelling work through the West End of London.

Andy has previously been responsible for the design of the LU Tottenham Court Road Station Upgrade, and DLR Extensions to London City Airport and Woolwich. Other projects that Andy has worked on include the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, the Jubilee Line Extension and tunnelling / metro projects In Ireland, Egypt, and Malaysia.

Andy is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an ICE Council Member and an ICE Trustee. He is co-chair of the Productivity Community Advisory Board as well as Chair of the Finance, Assurance and Risk Committee and a member of the Fellowship Panel. Andy is also a Fellow of the Association for Project Management and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Dr Hazel McDonald

Dr Hazel McDonald has been immersed in the management of highway structures for more than three decades, mostly with Transport Scotland.  

After completing her PhD thesis on temperature effects in concrete box-girder bridges at the University of Strathclyde, she worked for Cumbria County Council, Capita Symonds and Mott MacDonald, specialising in bridge design, inspection and maintenance.

She then moved to Transport Scotland, where she has been for 20 years. In her current role, she leads a 17-strong team that manages the upkeep and upgrading of trunk road structures.  

A Fellow of the ICE, McDonald also chairs the UK Bridges Board.

Rachel Pether

David Balmforth

Chris O'Regan

Chris has worked in structural engineering for nearly 40 years, progressing from apprentice technician to Head of Structural Safety at Frankham Consultancy Group. In his current role, he leads teams of inspecting engineers delivering structural risk assessments across existing higher-risk buildings (HRBs).

A Fellow of both the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Chris was awarded Fellowship in recognition of his pioneering work in technical knowledge-sharing and his authorship of Structural Use of Glass in Buildings (2nd Edition, 2014). Chris chairs the ICE/IStructE Joint Committee for the HRB Competency Register for structural engineers, established to provide independent verification for practitioners working on higher-risk structures. He was also a principal contributor to the Engineering Council’s UK-SPEC-HRB framework, which underpins the register's assessment standard.

Over his career, Chris’s design and construction portfolio spans a diverse range of landmark and complex projects, from the refurbishment of a South London art gallery to Wembley Stadium and the rebuilt EastEnders set. He regularly provides high-level technical expertise to key industry bodies, including the Engineering Council, HSE, and BSI. The author of over 60 technical guidance notes, Chris received the IStructE Lewis Kent Award in 2021 for outstanding service to the structural engineering profession.

Richard Bayfield FICE, FCIArb

Richard Bayfield began his career working as a student at the Thames Barrier. He has held a variety of senior roles as a contractor, consultant and client. 

He is currently a vice president at the Institution of Civil Engineers. He is a former chair and honorary member of the Society of Construction Law. Recent roles include client director / advisor where he helps client organisations set up processes, communications, contracts and governance that are purposefully designed to achieve collaborative cultures which reduce the risk of project failure. 

Mark Fulton

Mark Fulton FICE is a chartered civil engineer and programme director with over 25 years’ experience leading and advising £multi-bn infrastructure programmes across nuclear, energy, transport and housing. Since 2017 he has led high-risk project reviews for the National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA), assessing delivery confidence on government major projects. His delivery roles, from HS2 and Chapelcross, to the Northumberland Line, have centred on building consensus among stakeholders, regulators and communities with differing political priorities. Director of Pivotal Management Consulting and an ICE Policy Fellow, he is working with ICE colleagues to establish risk and uncertainty management as a core professional competence.

Emer Murnaghan

Emer Murnaghan is the innovation director at GRAHAM Civil Engineering, having held posts as head of responsible sustainable business and head of business iImprovement at GRAHAM, which she joined in 2011. The GRAHAM Group reached the 1Bn Turnover milestone in 2023, Civil Engineering makes up approx. one third of the value. 

Emer has a long history of supporting and influencing industry through her previous roles with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). In June 2015 she was awarded the OBE for services to civil engineering and further education in Northern Ireland. In November 2018 she was appointed Trustee and a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2018 – 2021). 

In 2019, she was invited to become a WISE Ambassador, to promote gender balance at the highest levels within the UK. She has worked closely with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland and supported the launch of the WISE Hub NI in October 2020. 

In June 2021 she joined the Trustee Board at Engineering Council and is determined to ensure the highest standards of engineering competency are achieved via pathways that are accessible, attainable, valued, and respected. 

Along with, ICE Past President, Ed Mc Cann, and others, Emer was one of the initial founding members for what has developed into GIRI (Get it Right Initiative) an industry led initiative into the root cause and significant cost of error in the construction industry. In 2021 Emer was invited to join the inaugural GIRI SLG (Strategic Leadership Group) whose remit is to embed the GIRI approach across the industry. 

She is passionate about an industry and profession that exists to serve the fundamental needs of society and is keen to play her part in delivering the UN SDGs by 2030. She is eager to see the industry become more diverse and inclusive not only because it is the right thing to do but because there is a strong business imperative to accelerate this transformation. With diverse thinking comes challenge which, given the right culture, will evolve a safer, successful, innovative and sustainable sector. 

Matt Gurden

Matt Gurden is a Chartered Actuary (Fellow) of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). He has an extensive actuarial consulting career, spending the last 15 years working for the Government Actuary’s Department advising the public sector on a wide range of fiscal and financial risks.

He is a former member of the IFoA’s risk management board and chaired the joint ICE/IFoA risk group, which produced a range of risk management publications including Major Infrastructure Projects: Key Front-End Issues and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Short Guide.

As the Deputy Government Actuary, Matt is responsible for engaging with the wider Civil Service to extend the contributions of the Government Actuary’s Department to robust decision-making, effective policy development and transparent reporting.