{"id":201,"date":"2016-02-18T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-02-18T17:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:13:30","slug":"james-wates-cbe-tells-us-why-professionalism-is-essential-to-the-built-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/james-wates-cbe-tells-us-why-professionalism-is-essential-to-the-built-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Westminster Talks Video: James Wates CBE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Wates CBE joined us earlier in February for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/events\/westminster-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westminster Talks<\/a>, the University&#8217;s series of lectures which invites the best minds to explore topics that fascinate, challenge and intrigue us.<\/p>\n<p>James is a proud Westminster alumnus, graduating in Estate Management in 1983, and is also a Governor of the University. He has gone on to have an immensely successful career, becoming\u00a0Chairman of Wates Construction in 2013.\u00a0He is also Chairman of the Prince&#8217;s Trust Built Environment Leadership Group, Vice Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth&#8217;s Foundation for Disabled People, and a Governor of the University of Westminster. In January 2012, James was awarded a CBE for Services to Construction and the Charitable Sector.<\/p>\n<p>You can now <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Qn79Y5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see\u00a0our recording<\/a> of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westminster.ac.uk\/news-and-events\/events\/james-wates-cbe-why-professionalism-is-as-important-to-the-built-environment-as-it-is-to-medicine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fascinating lecture<\/a>, as James talks about the impact that the built environment can have on our health and well-being, and the long-lasting consequences when things go wrong. The solution lies in a higher degree of professionalism \u2013 but can the built environment possibly become as professional as the medical field?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Wates CBE joined us earlier in February for\u00a0Westminster Talks, the University&#8217;s series of lectures which invites the best minds to explore topics that fascinate, challenge and intrigue us. James is a proud Westminster alumnus, graduating in Estate Management in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}