Gary Spent 22 years in the Royal Air Force as a Physical Training Instructor and loved every minute. He has spent the last 8 years working in the construction industry building up his knowledge of the industry and how best to qualify and develop the people within it.

Qualifications and Professional Memberships include:

BA in Further Adult and Higher Education
Cert Ed
Member of the Institute for Learning MIfL
NVQ Assessor
NVQ Internal Verifier

Educated at Thomas Telford School, Nick gained A Levels in I.T & Business. After leaving Thomas Telford in 2004, he worked as an Estate Agent for 2 years, then a Mortgage Underwriter for various companies until joining CAD UK as the I.T Manager in January 2008.

He began by implementing the computer network between our UK & Republic of Ireland offices, and in addition to creating the website; he also designed, created and launched the CAD UK E-NVQ online system. The system has been very well received by our customers and is now used by 95% of our NVQ candidates.

Nick is responsible for configuring candidate's computers to use the E-NVQ system; both on site and remotely. He also ensures that the E-System is backed up and fully operational at all times. For any technical assistance, speak to Nick.

Centre Manager for CAD in ROI & NI

"I have been involved with the Construction industry since the 1980’s and have been actively involved with Site Safety since 1988 when I became a shop steward on Canary Wharf and a member of the works committee that met once a week to discuss all aspects of site safety. I have worked on most of the Major works in London between 1988 and 2004 my last job in London in 2004 was running a job in London in charge of 32 Steel fixers and accompanying staff, I had 2/24 hr slides operating, and I also worked on the largest Slide in Europe also on Canary Wharf with my own section.

Other Projects in the UK have included Power Stations –Bridges-Office Blocks –Apartment Buildings – New Submarine Pens in Plymouth and various others all of which had a degree of supervision

I am now the Centre Manager for CAD in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland working at level s 2 and 3.  One of my main roles is to help develop and train assessors in the workplace so that they can assess their own workforce.  I readily support any role or measure that improves Health and Safety on site and I believe that the NVQ process is a major step in addressing  this"

Reg joined CAD UK in November 2008 and has worked within the construction & built environment industry all through his working life, eventually becoming a general foreman and site agent for a midlands national company. From there he went on to become Contracts Manager for Building, Civil and Structural Engineering across the U.K. for Matthew Hall.

 Reg was Chief External Verifier for Construction & the Built Environment, as well as lead Verifier for the BTEC Legacy First Certificates and Diplomas, National Certificates & Diplomas, and Higher National Certificates & Diplomas. He also worked as a Project Manager for Edexcel in the Construction Development Division helping to develop and produce all of the above qualifications. He was instrumental in the initial development of all of the Construction NVQ’s from Level 2 up to Level 5 and well as the new Diploma’s in Construction.  He has also given many presentations of all of the above qualifications to Universities, Colleges, Schools and commercial organisations in the UK and abroad.

Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building. F.C.I.O.B.
Member of the Chartered Management Institute. M.C.M.I.
Bachelor of Arts Degree. B.A.
Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Adult Education. Ad. Dip. Ad. Ed.
Lead Assessor to B.S. 5750 Now ISO 9001

Centre Co-Ordinator

Following a long and successful career in Sales and Marketing Liz has joined CAD UK to help keep the administration running smoothly and help spread word of CAD UK's excellent services to the construction industry.

BA Hons English
Cert TESOL

JOHN GROVER

John has worked in the construction inducstry for 47 years. He started his career working for William Moss & Sons as an apprentice carpenter and retired earlier this year working as a Contracts Manager for Kier Southern; where he was responsible for pre-contract negotiations, tendering and adjudication process, and the successful management and completion of many projects. These projects include:

£5 million - Fire precaution work and anti-dash facility at Broadmoor Hospital

£3 million - Animal Centre of the RSPCA

£2 million - Office for the Salvation Army

£4.3million - New Retail units Watford

£3.9million - New Build secure care home, Roehampton

£5  million - DDA Work, Three Rivers DC

£3.9million - Local Authority Camden, flats, whilst in occupation

A Senior Project Manager with 40 plus years experience working in Construction mainly on Pipework and Pipework Associated Installations for the Utilities Industry in both rural and urban situations.

Overseas Utilities experience in Australia, and South America working in Argentina, Chile and Brazil following privatisation of the Utilities Industry in Argentina.

Specific areas of interest. Safety, Representing LOR with HSE NI. Training and Development of Employees. Master Trainer for IIF and NVQ A1 Assessor. Customer Service Liaison and Best practice issues when working within a Public Environment.

Gordon is working with CAD UK on site as a work based assessor, assessing candidates up to NVQ Level 5.

Project Manager (Laing O'Rourke)

A Senior Project Manager with 40 plus years experience working in Civils, Railway and Complex M&A Projects.

Les has been successful in gaining a number of high level qualifications in Construction and is a Member of several professional institutions:

Chartered Member of Institution of Occupational Safety and Health
Chartered Member of the Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Post Graduate Certificate in Managing Health and Safety (Loughborough Univ
Master of Science in Construction Management (Univ of Bath)

Specific areas of interest. Site Safety, Co-ordination of training, mentoring & assessment of engineers, supervisors, site operatives, NVQ A1 Assessor, IIF Trainer

Les is working with CAD UK on site as a work based assessor, assessing candidates up to NVQ Level 5.

Senior Project Manager (MACE Construction)

A Senior Project Manager/Operations Director with 40 plus years experience in the construction industry working mainly on design and Build contracts.  Currently working for MACE Ltd as Senior Project Manager – T2 Project Dublin Airport
Responsible for the Main Terminal Building construction and Fit-out on the new Dublin Airport project.  This includes all Health & safety matters and the day to day design  co-ordination, procurement and construction of the works on this 690 Million Euro project.

Qualification and professional memberships include:

O.N.C. (1971) Ordinary National Certificate - Mechanical Engineering.
H.N.C. (1973) Higher National Certificate - Civil Engineering.
NVQ Level 5 in Construction Management

John is working with CAD UK on site as a work based assessor, assessing candidates up to NVQ Level 5.

Senior Construction Manager (MACE Construction)

A Senior Construction Manager with 20 plus years experience in the construction industry. Currently working for MACE Ltd as a Construction manager Dublin Airport Terminal 2. Responsible for the co-ordination on site of all construction activities, all aspects of fit out, mechanical and electrical installation and shell and core work, in the arrivals section. The arrivals section is one of the major sections of the terminal, some 40,000 square feet .

Qualifications and Professional Memberships include:

B.Sc. Building Engineering and Management
Foundation course - Brain and Behaviour

Member of the Chartered Institute of Building

Ismeal is working with CAD UK on site as a work based assessor, assessing candidates up to NVQ Level 5.