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tices, have embraced the concept of a are now are 41 Student Naval Architect future and the Institution has worked unpalatable that we never dwelt on it for professional community, recognising the Awards presented to the most promising hard to achieve international credibility. long. The focus at every stage was, and need and bene? t of community support naval architecture students all around the When the International Maritime Orga- continues to be, to deliver the best-in- and professional standards both for self- world. The vast majority of these awards nization (IMO) recognized RINA as a class of whatever we are doing in order advancement and economic advantage. are sponsored by industry, re? ecting the Non-Governmental Organization with to meet the needs of the profession. It is

Essentially the value of RINA bring- status with which RINA initiatives are Consultative Status in 2002, this was perhaps this focus which has earned us ing together and promoting best practice now viewed. Deciding to remain fo- seen as an endorsement of the decision the engagement and loyalty of naval ar- is in fact as valid today as it was in 1860 cused on naval architecture and not di- to remain independent and focus exclu- chitects across the world. ‘Best-in-class’ - now with the advent of computing it is luting membership by perhaps merging sively on the international community is possibly an ethos shared by our mem- able to deliver it somewhat faster. with other institutions was a decision of naval architects. The buoyancy of bers and why RINA is now regarded as a

Modernizing RINA’s operations to not taken lightly but was, absolutely, RINA has been enabled because naval highly respected professional institution make them lean and ef? cient neces- the right one. The decision enabled the architects believe the Institution is rel- around the world. With members in over sitated a change in the structure to en- communication to remain tight and rel- evant and delivers value. As the Insti- ninety countries, it is widely represented able effective decision making, respon- evant to the audience but, interestingly, tution’s current guardians we identi? ed in industry, universities and colleges, sive to the needs of the profession and it also meant that in order to grow RINA the diverse challenges it faced and took and maritime organisations world-wide, the Institution. Creating a membership had to put resource and effort in build- the decisions we considered necessary RINA appears to be successfully deliver- structure and events program which en- ing, supporting and recognizing the to make the best of each set of circum- ing the remit set out in 1860 to ‘advance courage and promotes the profession to importance of its global membership. stances. We had no way of knowing if the art and science of ship design’ and is youngsters has been a priority and one Establishing a credible multi-national we would be successful but the idea of set to continue to do so assuming a fair that is beginning to reap rewards. There platform became key to securing RINA’s failure ‘on our watch’ was suf? ciently wind and a strong hand on the helm.

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