Dr Martin Perks FRICS MICW is a Director of the Lean Construction Institute–UK with a career spanning many infrastructure markets: highways, rail, nuclear, retail, pharma, research science, and airports. Martin understands both public and private sector business management, governance, and risk assessment.
He was until recently a commercial programme director for National Highways Ltd. He has, since 2016, also been a visiting Professor at Birmingham City University focusing on project procurement and commercial management. Martin is recognised as the architect of Regional Delivery Partnerships procurement model built to deliver £9billion of highway enhancement projects. Regional Delivery Partnership is a Target Value Delivery procurement model designed specifically for the UK infrastructure construction market. Using lean and value focused integrated project delivery techniques the model has delivered significant improvements in productivity, predictability, outcome focus, and value-based system thinking.
