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Bucknall graduated from Birmingham College of Art & Technology in 1961.
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David Bucknall
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David Bucknall, Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, RICS, was a Partner of Bucknall Austin, later to be merged with Rider Hunt, and Levett and Bailey, to form Rider Levett Bucknall, a leading global Construction and Quantity Surveying Practice with 3,500 employees in 120 offices worldwide.
Career
He was also heavily involved with supporting various opportunities for young people to start careers in the construction industry, his efforts for which were recognised with the award of an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2013. He joined Bucknall Austin in 1961, a company founded some years earlier by his father, Charles Bucknall, in 1947. He was a patron for the RLB"s graduate recruitment scheme, Protégé, of which he chaired the Global Construction and Quantity Surveying Board.
He was awarded honorary Doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton and Birmingham City University.
Notable projects that he mangaed included for the construction of Birmingham"s Symphony Hall, Birmingham International Convention Centre (Interstate Commerce Commission) and Birmingham National Indoor Arena ( National Investigation Agency). He also cost managed the repair and restoration of Windsor Castle following the fire in 1992, and project managed the construction of the new Telecom Tower in Kuala Lumpur.
Bucknall officially retired from RLB in September 2012, although he remained a chairman of the RICS Quantity Surveyors and Construction Professional Group, and the Birmingham Community Foundation. He died unexpectedly during cycling training for an Iron Manitoba Triathlon on 7 June 2015.
