Brian Moss - A life in words

Brian Peter Moss OBE BSc. C.Eng. HFCIBSE

Brian Moss founded NuAire Ltd after graduating from Nottingham University with an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering. From the inception of NuAire, he promoted innovative design; as a result, the Company won numerous industry and government agency sponsored innovation and design awards, culminating in a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category.

President of the HEVAC Association in 1982/84, he was the driving force behind the introduction of manufacturers’ quality assurance schemes. In 1985 he became a member of the NEDO Building EDC, under the Chairmanship of Sir Monty Finniston, where he was responsible for championing three of their reports on the HEVAC Industry.

Finniston also appointed him Chairman of the Group set up to persuade building component specifiers to use British Standards and associated quality assurance schemes.

He subsequently chaired the NEDO Committee which organised BESCA, the Building Engineering Services Certification Authority, responsible for running the Industry’s quality assurance scheme.

He subsequently championed the adoption of quality assurance schemes throughout our sector, including design, installation and operation, as well as manufacture.

Brian Moss has chaired the Joint Advisory Committee for Engineering Services and been a member of the CIBSE Technology Board, the Editorial Board of the CIBSE Journal, OPUS and the Product Design Review. He has also chaired the Programme Management Committee of the VACR Link Scheme, and chaired the Chartered College of the Construction Industry Council.

He set up and continues to chair PROD, the CIBSE Publications, Research Output & Delivery Committee under whose guidance the Institution’s Guides were brought up-to-date. He championed and then developed the distribution of Guides as a benefit of membership.

Under his leadership, the production and subsequent sales of Institution publications has been transformed. The quality and standing of our technical guidance has never been higher and publication sales continue to set new income records each year (second only to subscription income).

He is a Past President of The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and subsequently was Honorary Treasurer for five years.

With his exemplary emphasis on technical innovation, Brian is a unique influence in our Industry and our Institution. His direct service to our Institution at a senior level spans two decades.

He was awarded an OBE in the 1986 New Years Honours List and an Honorary Fellowship of CIBSE in 1999.