22 March 2011

RIAS honour for Professor Malcolm Horner

photo credit: Mike Wilkinson

Professor Malcolm Horner, a former Deputy Principal of the University of Dundee, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.

The Fellowship is the highest accolade which Scotland's national architecture body bestows on non-architects and on architects outwith Scotland. It is awarded to figures in the arts, business and politics in Scotland who have made an outstanding contribution to Scottish life.

Professor Horner received the Honorary Fellowship of the Incorporation for services to the construction industry.

Professor Horner originally qualified in civil engineering. His early work was with Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd before, in 1977, he joined the University of Dundee, working in the Department of Civil Engineering as a lecturer.

He went on to become Deputy Principal by 2002 and subsequently an emeritus Professor of Engineering Management.

Professor Horner’s research interests include construction project management, data analysis, economic project modelling, whole life costing, sustainability assessment tools and urban regeneration. His work has brought in grants of over £5 million to the University of Dundee and he has personally been responsible for over 100 publications.

Alongside numerous academic appointments, he has served as a Governor of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Director at Dundee Rep, and Chair of Scottish Enterprise Tayside.

He is a former Director of the Scottish Construction Centre, which has a base at the University and a recent past chair of the Management Board of the Institution of Civil Engineers Scotland and the ICE Scotland Regional Committee.

He is currently the Chairman of Whole Life Consultants Ltd (a spin-out company from the University of Dundee), a Director of CXR Biosciences Ltd, a member of the RIAS President’s Select Committee on Procurement and, with the support of the Incorporation and other partner organisations, is embarking upon the development of an alternative sustainability tool for Scotland.

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