{"id":3132,"date":"2020-04-06T16:16:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2020-04-06T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:16:02","slug":"obituary-for-cpa-technical-consultant-tim-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2020\/04\/obituary-for-cpa-technical-consultant-tim-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary for CPA Technical Consultant Tim Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) is very saddened to announce that friend and colleague Tim Watson passed away on Friday 3<sup>rd<\/sup> April 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Tim, who has been CPA\u2019s Technical Consultant for many years, had been undergoing treatment for cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Kevin Minton, Chief Executive of the CPA said:<strong> \u201c<\/strong>We send our deepest condolences to Tim\u2019s wife Judy and their family. This is an especially hard time for them, as they are necessarily isolated from each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim\u2019s contribution to the safety of construction plant is almost immeasurable. For over 20 years he worked closely with CPA and the Special Interest Groups, and his clear thinking and professionalism has led to many major improvements in engineering and good practice, which will continue to benefit us for many years,\u201d Kevin continued.<\/p>\n<p>Tim also had many other roles through his consultancy, including acting as expert witness and as a Notified Body. A full obituary will be posted on the CPA website in due course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpa.uk.net\/news-events\/\">https:\/\/www.cpa.uk.net\/news-events\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) is very saddened to announce that friend and colleague Tim Watson passed away on Friday <\/p>\n<a class=\"btn-sub-green l-blog-post-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/2020\/04\/obituary-for-cpa-technical-consultant-tim-watson\/\" title=\"Read more\">Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3134,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions\/3134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.constructionplantworld.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}