Events

We invite you to celebrate 50 years of Birchwood and thrive amongst the specialist organisations operating across the Birchwood estate, to reflect on the impact of Birchwood, how Engineering and Nuclear expertise has addressed some of the most complex UK and international challenges, and how the APM and Nuclear Institute are and will ensure the industry continues to tackle projects and strategic prioritises with continued vigour. 

The event will provide a summary of the role this estate and businesses within have played in the regional and national agenda. The session will continue to celebrate the synergies between engineering and nuclear discipline, through the sharing of case studies, projects and expertise for both client, specialist and supply chain organisations, concluding with an action and alignments exercise to create outcomes and future focus.  

This is an opportunity to reflect, celebrate, be inspired and contribute to sustained collaboration between engineering and manufacturing. 

Speaker: Gareth Watkins, Programme Director

Gareth will talk about his experience of managing remote and geographically dispersed programme delivery teams, implementing change in operational facilities and delivering multi-discipline construction, manufacturing and installation contracts.

Gareth Watkins is a Programme Director with over 35 years of project delivery experience in the UK and overseas. He commenced his delivery career in the ‘80s working on oil and gas projects in the UK and Middle East. In 2002 he moved sectors and began his nuclear career at Trawsfynydd Nuclear Power Station in North Wales. After several years of delivering intermediate level waste (ILW) recovery and processing projects he moved to Bulgaria to lead the project management team at the Kozloduy Project Management Unit working on donor funded decommissioning projects. Following Kozloduy Gareth worked on nuclear projects across the UK and Eastern Europe including several years at Chernobyl in Ukraine. He has specialised in the recovery of troubled projects, working across delivery partners to develop pragmatic solutions for complex problems. 

Registration

This talk is free for members of the Association for Project Management and also members of the Nuclear Institute. Contact Chair.northwest@nuclearinst.com for free registration as a Nuclear Institute member. 

The event begins at 16:30 for registration and refreshments, with the talk starting at 17:00.