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KEN WOODMAN
QUALIFICATIONS
City & Guilds Final Certificate in Carpentry and Joinery Full Technological Certificate
CAREER HISTORY
My secondary modern education was completed in March 1946. Maddocks and Walford Building Contractors employed me as an indentured apprentice in carpentry and joinery, attending the Central College of Technology and was deferred from conscription until my apprenticeship was completed in 1953. Conscription was compulsory and I joined the Royal Air Force as a Carpenter / Joiner for 4 years and was demobbed as an NCO spending 3 years on special reserve. I then became a Sales Representative for Magnet Joinery for 4 years, leaving in 1961 having been offered the position of a Site Agent for Michael Woods Ltd, Building Contractors, who carried out housing contracts for the City of Birmingham and I was responsible to the Managing Director for the efficient working of sites and control of sub-contract labour. In 1964, Percy W Cox, Building Contractors, offered me the opportunity to become a Contracts Supervisor controlling various private housing schemes in the Midlands. 1967 saw the start of a partnership with Antom Builders of Coleshill completing various private, commercial and local council contracts for 5 years. In 1972 my twin brother and I formed a building company ( Bretford Ltd ) and attained a life long wish to work together. Contracts for private architects, the Birmingham Diocese, Parochial Councils, Leicester University, Loughborough College, individual homes and private schemes were carried out with speed and alacrity, having a great emphasis on quality. In November 1985 my brother passed away and having no incentive to carry on the Company without him, in 1986 I applied for and obtained the position of a Dilapidation’s Assessor at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham. I also took the role as a Clerk of Works on new projects at the N.E.C. Promotion to a Building Surveyor came in 1989 and Assistant Building Maintenance Manager in 1990, involving the whole range of building and surveying services. Compulsory retirement came all too quickly on 27th September 1994. Casual employment was offered by the N.E.C in November 1994 as a Quality Control Inspector and to carry out Health & Safety assessments:- COSSH Regulations, Risk Assessments, procedures, employee training and records for PAT testing including the I.C.C and the N.I.A completing updating of records in June 1998. I commenced working for Cavanagh Building Surveyors / Allen Cavanagh Partnership in January 1995 as a Building Surveyor / Clerk of Works, carrying out numerous duties.
