Our Judges
John Butler
John Butler, who entered flooring as a carpet-fitter in 1963 and who was trained by Keith Shenton, today the oldest active floorlayer in the UK, formed his first company, Butler & Machin, in 1967. Later, he formed Contract Floor Installations which ran until 1995. Today, he runs John Butler Contracts, which specialises in several areas of flooring including retail areas in airports.
Richard Renouf
Richard Renouf is an independent consultant I'm a consultant member of the CFA, a member of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses and a provisional member of the Expert Witness Institute. He’s also worked as an independent expert witness for furnishings complaints for more than 27 years, writing reports and giving evidence in court claims. He’s also a community first responder, attending 999 calls to save lives in his community – so he knows how to deal with matters of life and death.
Fiona Bowman MBA FCMI CIWFM
As a Facilities Management Consultant with over 25 years’ experience in the Property and Facilities Management world, Fiona has extensive client-side contract flooring experience both of Fit Out, Refurbishment and Construction Projects with Large Corporates, Financial Institutions, Insurance Sector, Education Sector, Healthcare Sector, Local Authorities and Charities. Understanding the complexities and pressures encountered by Flooring Contractors and Manufacturers, delivering within tight timescales with sometimes difficult access issues into complex workspaces, has given her an excellent background to judge the CFA/CFJ Awards for the last 3 years. She continues to operate as an FM Consultant nationally and is also a Non-Exec Director of a Housing Association in the North East. She is an Author and an internationally recognised Speaker and Campaigner against Domestic Abuse, regularly invited to speak at high profile conferences, in Parliament and in the media about the Importance of Employers in the Lives of Employees who may be victims and survivors of Domestic Abuse. She is an Ambassador for Alpha Vesta CIC and EIDA. Twitter: Fiona_Bowman LinkedIN: Fiona Bowman MBA
Graeme Dewar
Following extensive experience working in the public and private sectors for large multi-disciplinary practices, Graeme founded GD Surveyors in 2007 with the aim of providing a tailored, friendly and personalised service to clients. Graeme has developed a specialism in the insurance sector working on both commercial and residential losses of varying values including fire, flood, subsidence and insurance surge situations. His work involves negotiation with insurers, loss adjustors and loss assessors, specification and project management of the reinstatement work. As well as residential his work him taken him into the education, commercial, retail and automotive sectors. In addition to building surveying, Graeme also undertakes Project Management work, gaining experience in the Nigerian market following regular work with a Nigerian Investment company.