Martin Barnes (engineer)

Nicholas Martin Limer Barnes[1] (18 January 1939 – 5 February 2022) was a British civil engineer and project manager noted for his role in the development of the New Engineering Contract (NEC), and a founding member and longest-serving president (from 2003 to 2012) of the Association for Project Management (APM).

In the same year, shortly after completing his doctorate, he set up his own project management business, which merged in 1985 with what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He was active from 1972 onwards in the International Project Management Association (IPMA), where he was a Fellow, board member and chairman of its Council of Representatives, and one of the creators of the original Civil Engineering Standard Method of Measurement (CESMM), which was published in 1976.

He himself considered that "this was a very significant step in the establishment of modern project management and my triangle diagram came to be used all over the world".

[10] The APM's posthumous tribute to Barnes observed that he "had always been at the forefront of the development of project management and had worked relentlessly to ensure that it became a fully recognised profession".