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Denise Chevin, author of several flagship Utility Week reports and the brand’s former intelligence editor, has been awarded an MBE.
The honour, announced in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list earlier this month, is in recognition of Chevin’s contribution to the built environment.
She has been writer and editor in the built environment, including utilities, for 30 years and has edited a number of titles, including Building Magazine from 2004-2010, where she won a number of prestigious PPA awards.
From 2018 to 2021 she was intelligence editor at Utility Week and since then has been contributing editor, taking responsibility for major projects including the recent Energy Reset report, a deep dive into the PR24 process and the inaugural UK Utilities Risk Report.
In recent years Chevin has combined her journalistic career with policy development – including acting as a policy adviser for the Construction Industry Council. In this capacity she worked with the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment to write two influential reports on housing defects and better redress for Homebuyers. These led to the setting up of a New Homes Ombudsman, which passed into law in the Building Safety Bill.
She also worked with Lord Richard Best and other parliamentarians to produce No More Lost Generations, looking at how construction could provide greater opportunities for young people not in employment.
Among other roles, Chevin is the secretary to the Competence Steering Group, a cross-industry group looking to improve competence in the wake of Grenfell.
She said: “I’m absolutely honoured, delighted, and humbled to receive an MBE for Services to the Built Environment. I’ve been lucky to have found a sector that never ceases to interest and amaze me and to have met and worked with some great people.
“It’s been very exciting to explore the energy and water sectors whose direction of travel is so aligned with tackling climate change and I look forward to continue working with utility companies and regulators reporting on such important developments.”
The Queen’s Birthday Honours also included an OBE for Charlotte Morton, chief executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association, for services to the development of the biogas industry, and a British Empire Medal for Stephen McComb, networks leakage technician at Northern Ireland Water, for services to the community of Belfast.
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