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As from 1st April 2005,
John Keayes will be the new Consultant and Secretary of the
Association, taking over from Bob Welton, who will retire.
All correspondence should now be sent to:
John Keayes B.Sc, C.Eng, MICE
Consultant and Secretary, REAL
September House,
Plantation Way
Storrington
West Sussex. RH20 4JF
Telephone/Fax: 01903 746584
Mobile: 07836 385543
email:
keayes@btinternet.com
John is a
chartered engineer and human resources management consultant with
hands-on experience of change management in senior positions in
industry. He has worked extensively in the private and public sectors
both in the UK and abroad.
Early experience was gained in the West Country in the design and
construction of major roads and the M5 motorway. John eventually
widened that experience by moving into the management of road
maintenance with highway authorities in Somerset and West Sussex.
His public sector career was rounded with 6 years with the Government
of Bermuda where he gained further management and political experience
as Roads Engineer reporting to the Director of Public Works.
Here he managed a large direct labour force and he undertook a range
of major projects including importing annual thin-film slurry
surfacing, using contractors from the United States eastern seaboard.
On his return to the UK John joined Prismo Limited as Contracts
Manager. Prismo was then a Redland owned specialist contractor
and material manufacturer that operated throughout Britain and Western
Europe. He led the development of the road contracting business
including the successful introduction of Ralumac, a brand new
thick-film slurry surfacing technique, to the UK. Ultimately in 1990
he was appointed as Contracts Director at Prismo.
When Colas Ltd was formed in 1992 John began as the Commercial &
Personnel Director during a period when major organisational change
was successfully planned and driven through. He helped plan and
implement a significant downsizing programme that involved wide-scale
redundancies and an associated outplacement support programme.
He became Surface Treatments Director managing the specialist road and
airfield contracting activities at Colas. During this period
John was Chairman of the Slurry Surfacing Contractors Association; a
founder member of the High Friction Surface Association; part of the
Highways Authorities Product Approval Scheme Specialist Group for High
Friction Surfacing and a representative on the Road Surface Dressing
Association.
John started his own consultancy firm September Associates in the
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