John Findlay BioJohn Findlay set up his own company, JDFWorks Limited, in 2008 to pursue his interests in innovation, knowledge sharing and business management systems. Prior to this he was Innovation Director at Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Services for 5 years. Before that he was a Director and Chief Engineer at Stent for 15 years. During that time he instigated and contributed to the development of the ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Walls, which has become a de-facto national standard.His deep interest in innovation and business process improvement led to involvement with the sector's CRISP (Construction Research and Innovation Strategy Panel) now transformed into the National Platform. R&D involvement was deepened in 1997 with a 2-year partial secondment to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as Sector Programme Manager for the theme of Construction as a Manufacturing Process within the Innovative Manufacturing Initiative.He has been involved in the Steering Groups of many CIRIA reports; the most recent being Whole-Life Infrastructure Asset Management. From the formation of CICE at Loughborough University he was chairman of the Management Board until 2007. He is now on the Strategic Advisory Board for Systems Engineering EngD at Bristol/Bath Universities and is a Visiting Professor at Salford University.Specialties: During 2010 acting as an expert witness in Singapore gave me a very clear picture of the influence that contract forms can have on the ability of the supply side to delight its customers. It is part of the supply chain getting the clients it deserves.