The Trinidad and To­ba­go In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects (TTIA) has award­ed sec­re­tary gen­er­al of the Coun­cil of Caribbean En­gi­neer­ing Or­gan­i­sa­tions, Tony Gibbs, with hon­orary mem­ber­ship in recog­ni­tion of his out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion in struc­tur­al and civ­il en­gi­neer­ing.

A state­ment from TTIA said the hon­orary mem­ber­ship was con­ferred on Gibbs with par­tic­u­lar em­pha­sis on in­no­v­a­tive struc­tur­al de­sign work­ing with ar­chi­tects to cre­ate haz­ard re­sis­tant build­ings. Gibbs gave the fea­ture ad­dress at the in­sti­tute's re­cent an­nu­al gen­er­al meet­ing. His ad­dress was ti­tled Struc­ture in the Ser­vice of Ar­chi­tec­ture.

Gibbs has long been an ad­vo­cate of the ben­e­fits of ar­chi­tec­ture on the built en­vi­ron­ment and the use of lo­cal pro­fes­sion­al ex­per­tise in the con­struc­tion sec­tor. His awards and ho­n­ours in­clude the Lewsi Kent Award, giv­en by the In­sti­tu­tion of Struc­tur­al En­gi­neers, and the Sasakawa Award for Dis­as­ter Re­duc­tion giv­en by the Unit­ed Na­tions.

New ex­ec­u­tive

On the same oc­ca­sion, the fol­low­ing ar­chi­tects were elect­ed to the ex­ec­u­tive:

• Jen­nifer Smith, pres­i­dent;

• Al­i­son Gros­berg, vice pres­i­dent;

• Mark Ray­mond, im­me­di­ate past pres­i­dent;

• Michael Lee Poy, sec­re­tary;

• Mar­tyn Joab, trea­sur­er;

• Gary Tur­ton, ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer;

• Mar­lon Charles, ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer.