Our Speaker at this meeting will be: Bruce McAra FRICS

Bruce is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Fellow of RICS.  He has has spent over 35 years working in the construction industry.

After graduating in 1980 he worked for Laing London following their articled student programme. In 1990 he joined Turner & Townsend, becoming a Partner in 1994 and retired in 2018. In that time he held various leadership roles including MD of Cost Management, CEO of North America and MD of Real Estate in the UK . In 2020 he became a founding Director and MD of Obayashi Properties UK Ltd who actively invest in commercial property in the City of London.

Bruce was appointed to the RICS Management Board as a non-executive Director in 2015, and then was invited to a second term in June 2018, but then his appointment was unexpectedly terminated in November 2019.

The title of the talk Bruce will present to us will be: "RICS; the challenges of acting with integrity and trust"