Lifetime Achievement Award for Professor Mosey

On Thursday 15 October, the PPC/TPC Conference took place in Bicester, Oxfordshire.  The annual event is hosted by the ACA (Association of Consultant Architects) and the ACE (Association for Consulting and Engineering).  The event is for all those who are connected with the use of the PPC2000 suite of standard form construction contracts, which were authored by Professor David Mosey and are now published by the ACA / ACE.

The conference was entitled ‘Back to the Future’ and was a celebration of 15 successful years of the PPC contracts, as well as an opportunity to reflect on the future of the construction industry, looking at themes such as sustainability and SMART.

As part of the conference, the ACA conducted its traditional awards ceremony recognising the work of the PPC User Group.  This year, the ACA also presented a special award to Professor David Mosey – the Association of Consultant Architects Medal.  The award was presented by world-famous designer Wayne Hemingway, and was in recognition of Professor Mosey's outstanding contribution to the practice and profession of architecture.  The ACA noted that Professor Mosey, though the creation and facilitation of the first standard form, multi-party, partnering contract has 'made a crucial contribution to the adoption and use of partnering in the procurement process'.  It also acknowledged that he has 'advised on more than 200 partnered projects/programmes…across a range of building and infrastructure'.

Previous recipients of the Award have included construction industry greats such as Sir Michael Latham and Sir John Egan, the founding fathers of modern construction law and collaborative practice, a list to which Professor Mosey expressed his great honour to have been added.