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29th CSA

ANNUAL

GENERAL

MEETING

he 29th AGM was held at the Tower Bridge Hotel, St. Kathrine’s Walk, London E1 before the Gala Awards evening. Once
Tagain we welcomed many of our members and we really appreciate the fantastic attendance of those who had travelled
from far afield to be with us and support us during this AGM.

Mark Todd, CSA Chairman, reported that this was his first report as Chairman and that
the Association goes from strength to strength. The last few years have seen a period
of unprecedented growth with increased membership’s applications from both
corporates and individuals. Commissioning Management Training Course – Continues
to grow and the Association is welcoming more and more Commissioning Management
Companies and Consultancies to our ever expanding membership list. We have held
courses at Horsham in February and April with another two courses planned for
September this year. MT extended his thanks to Glen Hawkins who continues to deliver
the course on our behalf. The Grade 7 – The Advanced Commissioning Management
Course is in full development and is tailored to those commissioning managers who
intend to or currently cover multi disciplines within their daily role. The course is due to be completed and ready to deliver
in the first quarter of 2020. Special thanks to Tony Anderson for all the hard work and time he has spent on this.

The GCC Chapter, Middle East – Continues to grow and thank you to Tony Anderson and his team for all their continued
hard work. Tony Anderson is now back in the UK and Lee Smith has been voted in as the new Chairman of the GCC with
Craig Watt as Vice Chairman.

Keith Barker – Chairman of the Marketing Sub-Committee, reported the Marketing Sub Committee
has continued its efforts to promote the Association during the last year, with a fair degree of success.
We put together a series of articles on the What, Why, When and Who of commissioning. These are
being published monthly in MBS magazine and we have already planned for further articles to be
published later this year.

Continuing our efforts to get the CSA more widely accepted, we had a stand at the BSRIA Briefing
and a table at the lunch. The CSA ladies made a sterling effort to distribute goodie bags and it was
quite something to see dozens of people walking around with the CSA logo on bags slung over their
shoulder. We are making plans to attend more of these types of event and to have a greater impact
by being one of the presenters rather than part of the audience. To this end, we are putting together
a package of material that can be edited to suit the theme of any particular forum.

Also this year we have reviewed the social media channels. This has resulted in a revamp to the website and a conscious
decision to concentrate on Linkedin and Twitter. Please ensure that when you share an interesting article or share one of
our articles to use the correct hashtag. #CSAhorsham.

We are also planning a bold new move so as well as being one of the presenters at other organisations gatherings, we want
the CSA to run its own forum to explore all facets of commissioning and its importance to the construction process. Andrew
Castle of Touchwave Media has already carried out some initial research for us and we are formulating a plan to launch
this on the 31st March 2020 and we will be looking to the wider CSA membership to not only support this but to make
active contributions.

The committee has been quite bolstered this year by the presence of our Vice Chairman Roy Tyler and input from Joe Wu
for which we are grateful