Alan Crane CBE FCIOB

Alan has spent 40 years in the Construction Industry, including Chief Executive appointments with Bovis International, Travers Morgan Consulting Group and Christiani & Nielsen Group.

He has had responsibility for a wide range of major projects including the development and construction of Canary Wharf in London, and Euro Disney. He has extensive international experience, throughout Europe, Middle and Far East, Asia and Australia.

Alan currently runs his own consultancy firm 3C's, is Industry Advisor to one of the UK's leading International Construction & Engineering Law firms and a number of other major companies, for some of whom he is also a Non Executive Director.

He was a member of the Strategic Forum of the Construction Industry, Chairman of the Institution of Civil Engineers Management Board, member of the Architects Registration Board and of a number of Government Task Forces, and currently Chair of CIOB Learning & Professional Practice Board. He is a regular conference speaker and conference chairman, both in the UK and internationally.

He provides consulting advice on Business Performance Improvement, Partnering, Supply Chain management and Value Management. He is the author of a number of industry and Task Force reports and “How To” guidance documents. He established and chaired the group responsible for development of the UK industry Key Performance Indicators and Benchmark system.

Following the issue of Sir John Egan's Task Force Report ''Rethinking Construction'' in late 1998  he was asked by Government and Industry to establish and Chair the Movement for Innovation (M4i) with the task of motivating industry to radically change the way in which it operates, and to adopt the recommendations and targets of the Egan report .

In April 2002 he became Chairman of Rethinking Construction. With the merger of Rethinking Construction and the Construction Best Practice Programme he became a Director of the combined organisation, Constructing Excellence.