The Engineering Council will be replaced this year by a new body, the Engineering and Technology Board (ETB).
The creation of the ETB comes in the wake of a report by the chairman of the Engineering Council, Dr Robert Hawley, which investigated the course that the Council should take "to maximise the value of engineering and technology skills in the 21st Century".

In announcing the ETB, science minister Lord Sainsbury said: "It is part of a process of increasing the competitiveness of industry...and making the best use of (our) talented engineers and technologists".

The Board will be up and running by October 2001. Meanwhile, a shadow board chaired by Dr Hawley will oversee six working groups looking at the board's constitution and governance, communication, membership and registration, education and training, cpd, and business and industry needs.

CIBSE President David Wood strongly supported The Hawley Report. "We need to broaden involvement, not just the 10% who qualify" he said.

"We also need to ensure that multi-disciplinary and general management skills are developed as well as technical skills" he added.

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