About Shane Forth

Over the course my  48-year career as a project controls leader in the oil and gas, nuclear, power, process, infrastructure, steel, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries, I have become an internationally acknowledged authority, formally recognised in 2023 with a global award for his lifetime contribution to project controls. I have consistently taken the lead as an early adopter and implementor of cutting-edge project control techniques. Since 2021, as GO FORTH, I help give people the skills to manage and control projects well and have delivered ECITB and other Project Controls short courses to almost 50 ECITB in scope companies and almost 300 delegates in the UK Engineering and Construction industry.  As  past chair of the BCECA Project Control Managers Committee and a fellow of APM and ACostE,  where I served two terms as Vice-President, my industry leadership, uniting groups and individuals, has reaped benefits for the project controls community such as higher professional recognition and apprenticeship programmes. In 2012 I received the ECITB award for Outstanding Contribution in the Leadership of Training and development. I am considered an exceptional thought leader, known for sharing my knowledge and experience,  speaking at prestigious international conferences. I have developed close relationships with academia as a visiting lecturer, and am consulting editor/author of the Practitioner Handbook of Project Controls.

Honoring Excellence in Project Controls. I was the recipient of the Global Project Controls Lifetime Contribution Award at the Project Controls Expo in November 2023, held at Wembley Stadium.  

This  award recognises my outstanding contribution and dedication to the Project Controls profession throughout my career and my lasting positive impact to the professional community and moving it forward. The award was presented to me by  Professor Adam Boddison OBE, CEO of the Association for Project Management.