CONCRETE EXPO

2-4 May 2023

ExCeL | London

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2022 Seminars

Here is the seminar programme for 2022. Seminar programme for London 2023 will be going live next year.

Day 1

11.00am – 12.00pm

The post COVID-19 Recovery and the opportunity for Offsite Construction

We have changed the way we work we must now change the way we build too.
The Post COVID-19 Report looks at the benefits and changes organisations need to make to deliver greater flexibility to work remotely.
In this session we will look at the main findings of the report, what challenges remain and how these can be addressed. How the pandemic has impacted innovation and how we work in the future and what the relevance of Offsite has in construction today.

Chair:
Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

Nigel Fraser is a longstanding contributor to Buildoffsite, currently as an Industry Advisor. He has broad experience as both a construction client and an offsite and low carbon product developer. He also has a significant role in the development of standards relating to offsite construction and sustainability.

Speakers:

Camilla Marcus-Dew, Head of Ventures, Connection Crew

Camilla is now spearheading the growth of Connection Crew CIC’s construction business, but has worked across the social enterprise sector in events, manufacturing, supply chain and retail, building businesses that welcome disabled and homeless people into work that works. Camilla is a certified IEMA Sustainability Practitioner (2021) and On Purpose Fellow (2015) and has won awards for innovation from NatWest, Variety, Campaign, WISE100 spoken internationally, encouraging humans to rethink ‘value’. Camilla also founded brands selling 1m+ units of soap into Boots, PWC and John Lewis and hundreds more organisations, and is now focused on bringing ‘net positive’ offerings to businesses. Prior to SE, Camilla worked across the world in international development and management consulting for global organisations.

Stephen Wightman, UK MMC Lead, Faithful + Gould

Stephen joined Faithful+Gould in 2021 to lead their proposition in advising clients around Modern Methods of Construction and Offsite. Prior to this Stephen spent 23 years in senior roles in a number of Offsite manufacturers and contractors including Caledonian Modular, SIG, Urban Splash and REDS10. He has extensive experience in volumetric, panelised and bathroom pod systems across all major construction markets including single unit housing.

Andrew Rolf, Associate Director, Arup

Andrew has worked and studied in the field of engineering for the past twenty-five years, working specifically on healthcare projects for the last ten years.

Andrew has worked a large range of multi-disciplinary master-planning projects leading teams of Building Engineers and Specialist; working across healthcare development programmes at a range of stages.

Andrew sits on the Arup UKMEA Healthcare executive and leads on Net-Zero-Carbon and Modern Methods of Construction in Healthcare for Arup.

Charlie Dorman, Director, Connection Crew

Charlie leads on business development and marketing strategy at Connection Crew and more recently has been steering its pivot from events into new sectors, including construction. Charlie’s background is in events; Prior to Connection Crew he’d been a successful production manager, stage manager, event producer and record producer too. But since becoming director of Connection Crew in 2009 he has focussed on growing the social enterprise in order to help break the cycle of homelessness and other social disadvantage.

In that time, Connection Crew has grown from a crew of 10 to a crew of up to 200 at its peak in 2019. When COVID-19 happened and all but decimated the events industry, Charlie turned his focus to broadening the scope of Connection Crew’s offer to build in better security and the company is on course to exceed its 2019 peak in 2022.

Robin Beshoori, Senior Account Manager, Connection Crew

Robin looks after the needs of all Connection Crew’s clients and develops new business relationships. Robin has a varied and extensive background in events and set-building; his understanding of the technical side of what we do makes him a real go-to person in the team.

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Volumetric Manufactured Buildings, the Modern Method of Offsite Construction with a forward thinking approach

Volumetric Manufactured Buildings: True or False: Can VMB deliver a net zero future for construction?

The facts about Volumetric Manufactured Buildings and how a confused construction chain could be slowing progression. Consideration of a future vision from the industry association how the route to 2050 could follow a number of different paths.

Speaker:

Richard Hipkiss, Development Director of the Modular and Portable Building Association.

With an engineering background before moving into the construction industry early 2000’s the impact of the fusion of manufacturing and construction comes as no surprise. Richard has been a Director of the MPBA for 3 years, setting up the learning hub to close the knowledge gap across the industry and help develop a solution for possible skills shortages in the future.

The complex lexicon of carbon: From embodied to net zero, a manufacturers perspective on the Volumetric Manufactured Building sector.

Removing the complexity across so called modern methods of construction, diluting myths, and embracing reality. Do consultants requesting embodied carbon figures all want the same information, do they all know what they are asking for? Can a VMB be benchmarked for embodied carbon in the same way as traditional building materials? Is there a better way to compare construction methods?

Speaker:

Andy King, Group Technical Director of Wernick Buildings and Technical Committee Chair within the Modular and Portable Building Association.

Working with a number of key manufacturers for 30+ years gives Andy a unique perspective to discuss what is a modern method of construction and those methods that have been tried, testing and improved. The Wernick Group are committed to reducing their own emissions to net zero by 2040 and have developed buildings for their own us in addition for the changing construction market in multiple sectors.

14.00pm - 15.00pm

How Offsite can deliver against ESG targets

In this session how putting environment, social & governance at the heart of design can deliver a more sustainable approach and dramatically increase the life cycle of buildings. Offsite looks at the whole life cycle of buildings to ensure flexibility and adaption of buildings in use.
Publication Deep Dive: Achieving Sustainable Resilience in New Precast Structures covers Environmental & Governance.

Chair:

Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

Nigel Fraser is a longstanding contributor to Buildoffsite, currently as an Industry Advisor. He has broad experience as both a construction client and an offsite and low carbon product developer. He also has a significant role in the development of standards relating to offsite construction and sustainability.

Speakers:

Dr Chris Atkins, Associate, Mott Macdonald

Chris is a Technical Principal at Mott MacDonald, with over 25 years of experience mostly in degrading concrete. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, A Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion, the chair of the technical committee of the Structural concrete alliance and Vice chair of the concrete bridge development group.

Graeme Jones, Managing Director, C-Probe

Graeme is Managing Director of C-Probe Group Limited. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion and a post-graduate qualified in corrosion science and engineering. He has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry with innovations aimed at the resilience management of structures.

Mark Griffin, Offsite Integration Manager &

Natalie Wilkinson, Head of Responsibility - NG Bailey

Mark has 18 years M+E construction experience since starting as a Mechanical craft apprentice for NG Bailey and progressed to Project Manager. He spent many years on heavily regulated projects such as Rail and also has extensive experience of the on-site delivery of DfMA solution, such as Birmingham New St Statio. Mark moved to the Offsite division 4 years ago where he now hold the position of Offsite Integration manager. He is motivated and passionate about improving project efficiencies through applied innovation and developing best practice offsite solutions.

Natalie has 15 years consultancy and in house experience in managing the ESG impacts associated with business activity. Natalie has worked across a range of sectors providing advice and assurance with regards to environmental performance improvements, social impact and ESG strategy. Natalie has been driving ESG within NG Bailey for over 5 years and has most recently been involved in setting the corporate strategy and driving the creation of a carbon calculator to quantify the carbon impacts associated with Offsite manufacture. Natalie is a passionate advocate for sustainable construction and the benefits that Offsite Manufacture can deliver as the industry transforms to meet its Net Zero future.

Mark Graham, Business Development Director, Premier Modular

Mark has a wealth of knowledge and experience having worked in the offsite industry for over 26 years. Soon to take on an exciting new role as Business Development Director for Net Zero Buildings (NZB) part of the Premier Modular Group, Mark will play an integral part in Premier’s commitment to becoming Net Zero by 2035.

The acquisition of NZB, has opened the groups eyes to ESG and sustainability, leading to Premier Modular becoming the first company in Europe to achieve an independent ESG Accredited via SGS. NZB will look to focus our clients on the holistic benefits of ESG particularly life cycle costs not just capital cost.

Day 2

11.00am – 12.00pm

What assurances deliver confidence in Offsite?

Hear from Manufacturers and Lenders how BOPAS certification is de-risking their offsite investment decisions, giving confidence to lenders and supporting better business.

Chair:

Karl Miller, Utilities Sector Lead, LRQA

Karl Miller has been involved in the utilities sector for over 40 years spending his initial working years as a Gas Service Engineer with British Gas, moving on to project roles developing the competitive gas industry in the UK and then working for blue chip contracting organisations providing multi utility distribution services to clients.

He joined Lloyds Register, now LRQA, in 2012 initially as the Lead Gas Assessor and now manages the Utilities team across its range of deliverables, from its UK based Utility schemes to worldwide Asset Management, and now Construction Sector Certifications BOPAS and BIM ISO19650.

Karl holds a Batchelor of Engineering (honours) degree in Building Services Engineering, is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow and former regional Chairman of the Institution of Gas Engineers and Management (IGEM) and a member of the Institute of Asset Management.

Speakers:

Yohan De Silva, Senior Assessor (Utilities) & Inspections Services, LRQA

Senior Utilities Assessor at Lloyd's Register and Director of First Steps Care. Over 16 years’ experience in Operational Health and Safety (BSc Hon, Member of the Engineering Council, IOSH, IEMA, IGEM. Worked in a number of senior roles within the UK utility including an independent gas transporter (iGT).

Deborah Smyth, Managing Director, Tempo Housing

Deborah has been in the land and property business for around 20 years and has experience in the modular industry for 6 years . celebrating not only being a partner in the Innovate UK funded Modular Build consortium but their founder Deborah Smyth being recognised as a Gold Stevie® Winner as Most Innovative Woman of the Year – Manufacturing at the international Stevie® Awards for Women in Business. Deborah founded Tempo Housing Modular UK and leads with social purpose – enabling housing innovation for inclusive growth. She believes modular construction provides purpose-built housing matched to community needs - high quality, standardised net zero carbon, economic and environmentally friendly homes with a DFMA and fabric first approach. Deborah is recognised as a pioneering woman from the Modular Housing industry. In 2020 Innovate UK awarded £3 million to a partnership including her modular company for a project to trial innovative methods of housebuilding in Bristol.

Ken Davie, Director, Krozen Design & Consultancy Ltd

Ken is an architect with over 40 years’ wide-ranging experience of different construction methods and forms of contract. In 2014 he joined the Innovation Cell of a major contractor with the remit to research and evaluate the benefits of Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DfMA), Offsite Manufacturing and Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). He helped develop the Offsite training material and runs workshops and webinars for the Supply Chain School aimed at increasing people’s knowledge and understanding of MMC. Topics include DfMA for Architects and Offsite Fundamentals, with case studies about different construction methods and products.

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Project IGNITE - a new digital platform to help housing providers tender and manufacturers execute MMC builds more productively together

Housing associations are increasingly turning to Modern Methods of Construction to help deliver high volumes of homes in the UK. But these more productive manufacturing processes rely on an efficient and effective supply chain. Project IGNITE is a consortium between housing providers, systems developers and experts in modular homes. Together they have created an integrated digital platform that allows MMC suppliers to fairly tender for new contracts. With the inclusion of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) functionality, the platform also provides MMC suppliers with the tools to deliver homes more efficiently and effectively, while giving housing providers visibility of the manufacturing and construction process and detailed project status in real-time

Speaker:

Mark Gregory, CEO, LYNQ

Developer and systems integrator of manufacturing execution system (MES) software and supply chain platforms. Mark has over 25 years’ senior level (C-suite) manufacturing experience in Industrial Equipment and Medical Device industries within publicly listed companies.

With a passion for outstanding design and product quality, Mark now leads LYNQ’s initiative to design and develop an AI powered supply chain platform for Modern Methods of Construction.

Steve Nesbitt, Chief Technologist, MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre / Lead Partner of the Construction Innovation Hub

Steve has over 33 years of engineering experience within aerospace, automotive and construction, ranging from continuous improvement through research and development, from manufacturing and process engineering to leading product development functions in numerous manufacturing based organisations. Most recently, he has been leading the Platform Design Programme within the Construction Innovation Hub and is the Chief Engineer responsible for the Construction and Infrastructure sector at MTC.

14.00pm - 15.00pm

Delivering Essential Infrastructure – Challenges and Opportunities for offsite construction

A £600 billion investment in infrastructure is planned. Delivering this programme will require unprecedented collaboration and supply side inventiveness. What will it take to deliver HS2 and other major projects? How can offsite contribute at scale? Outline of forward plan workflows and what is required over the next 5 years.

Chair:

Dr David Hancock, Construction Director, Infrastructure Projects Authority

Dr David Hancock leads the Government Construction Team and chairs the Government Construction Board for the Cabinet Office and the Infrastructure and Projects Authority. Prior to that he was Head of Risk for Transport for London. Renowned internationally as a leading thinker and practitioner in the field of risk, he is the author of the bestselling book “Tame, Messy and Wicked Risk Leadership” in which he developed the concept of Risk Leadership. He has worked with the public, private and voluntary sectors and has been the Director of risk and assurance for two London Mayors and Executive Director of Halcrow (now CH2M) responsible for setting up their consultancy group. He was Head of Risk for the Terminal 5 Project at Heathrow and champions the case for rethinking project management as a social interaction rather than delivery solely through the application of process and policy. He has a Degree and PhD in engineering from Nottingham and an MBA from Bath Universities.

He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development and Fellow of the Association of Project Management.

Speakers:

James Reid, Head of Financial Lines, Vista

Former Solicitor-Advocate specialising in insurance and re-insurance with a Master’s degree in Construction Law. After private practice in London, James developed insurance products and solutions for Marsh & McLennan in London and was subsequently Innovation Director for Willis.

Fergus Haradence, Deputy Director Construction, BEIS

Fergus Harradence is the Deputy Director for Infrastructure & Construction in the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. His responsibilities include sponsoring the Construction Leadership Council and working with the industry to maximise its contribution to economic growth across the UK.

Patrick Morrison, Healthcare Sector Director, NG Bailey

Patrick has 34 years’ experience in the building services industry and has been dedicated to the healthcare sector at NG Bailey for the past 20 years. During this period he has established healthcare as a primary sector for NG Bailey who now regularly deliver a wide range of projects from whole new acute hospitals down to smaller refurbishment schemes. Patrick is a passionate advocate of offsite manufacture and in his role he helps clients and construction partners realise the benefits of modern methods of construction through the integration of offsite manufactured M&E solutions.

Day 3

11.00am – 12.00pm

Is standardisation the future of Construction?

The UK needs more affordable places for people to live and work that are safe, healthy and energy efficient.
The Industrial Strategy Challenge: UK Construction. This challenge will invest £170 million - matched by £250 million from industry - to modernise construction processes and techniques, such as using digital design and standardised, modular components for offsite manufacture.
This session aims to look at standardisation for delivering faster infrastructure projects at scale. How application of Artificial Intelligence [AI] and Robotics across the offsite industry is driving greater efficiencies, mitigate risk, reduce onsite accidents, and manage labour shortages.

Speakers:

Dirk Vennix, CEO, Ciria

Dirk Vennix is a sector leader with substantial experience in managing major membership organisations. Dirk joined CIRIA as Chief Executive in 2016 having previously launched the Confederation of Timber Industries which promoted offsite construction to Government and Parliament.

For more than 25 years Dirk has successfully delivered stakeholder engagement campaigns in the not-for-profit and private sectors. He previously worked for Centrica plc and Liverpool John Moores University. Dirk started his career as a journalist and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (FCIPR). Dirk gained an MBA with distinction at the University of Bradford in 2000.

Sam Stacey, Challenge Director - Transforming Construction, Innovate UK

Sam Stacey is a construction industry leader and writer on construction innovation. Since 2018 he has been Challenge Director for Construction at UKRI, implementing the Sector Deal for Construction as part of the UK’s 2017 Industrial Strategy. He has an MBA from Henley Business School and degrees in Civil Engineering, Architecture and Philosophy from Imperial College and Cambridge University.

Angel Georgiev, Account Manager, Bentley

Angel Georgiev has a degree in Civil Engineer and has experience as a Project Manager on environmental projects delivered with EU funding. The complexity of the project delivery and funding mechanisms, together with the environmental impact, sparked his interest in digitalisation and improving digital maturity. As part of Bentley`s Discrete industries team working with engineers and architects, constructors, and owner-operators to accelerate project delivery and improve asset performance for the infrastructure that sustains our economy and our environment. Angel takes particular interest in empowering better collaboration trough digitalisation by improving stakeholder engagement and deriving actionable insights from existing data.

Lucy Sales, Industrialised Construction Director - Transport, BAM UK&I

Lucy Sales is an advocate of evolution and progress in the construction sector, passionate about bringing together innovation, technology and new ways of working to excel value and achieve better financial, environmental, social and human outcomes. After being in different roles over the last two decades in the construction industry in different companies and countries across the world, she is now at BAM leading and driving the industrialised construction strategy for infrastructure. She holds a MEng in Civil Engineering and an MBA, and she is a Chartered Civil Engineer for the ICE where she gets actively involved and enjoys mentoring young engineers towards reflecting and thinking differently for the future of construction.

Graeme Brady, Offsite Integration Manager, NG Bailey

Graeme has over 20 years’ experience in the Offsite Manufacturing industry, working on some prestigious project such as Birmingham New Street and Heathrow T5. Latterly he has been developing a Kit of Parts approach to projects such as ‘The Forge’ which will be the world’s first Platform Design for Manufacture and Assembly Net Carbon Zero Commercial Office. Along with others, he believes that this approach to construction will reduce the design time, generate more efficient manufacturing and installation processes, while delivering a high quality finish required.

12:00pm - 12:45pm

Project IGNITE - a new digital platform to help housing providers tender and manufacturers execute MMC builds more productively together

Housing associations are increasingly turning to Modern Methods of Construction to help deliver high volumes of homes in the UK. But these more productive manufacturing processes rely on an efficient and effective supply chain. Project IGNITE is a consortium between housing providers, systems developers and experts in modular homes. Together they have created an integrated digital platform that allows MMC suppliers to fairly tender for new contracts. With the inclusion of the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) functionality, the platform also provides MMC suppliers with the tools to deliver homes more efficiently and effectively, while giving housing providers visibility of the manufacturing and construction process and detailed project status in real-time

Speaker:

Mark Gregory, CEO, LYNQ

Developer and systems integrator of manufacturing execution system (MES) software and supply chain platforms. Mark has over 25 years’ senior level (C-suite) manufacturing experience in Industrial Equipment and Medical Device industries within publicly listed companies.

With a passion for outstanding design and product quality, Mark now leads LYNQ’s initiative to design and develop an AI powered supply chain platform for Modern Methods of Construction.

Lewis Jones, General Manager, PRISM

Lewis Jones has been General Manager of offsite manufacturing facility, PRISM, for five years. He manages the delivery of prefabricated building services for a range of public and private sector schemes up and down the country, along with a workforce of more than 50.

He is passionate about the role offsite can play in improving the construction industry, particularly in sectors such as commercial, education and healthcare.

Steve Nesbitt, Chief Technologist, MTC - Manufacturing Technology Centre / Lead Partner of the Construction Innovation Hub

Steve has over 33 years of engineering experience within aerospace, automotive and construction, ranging from continuous improvement through research and development, from manufacturing and process engineering to leading product development functions in numerous manufacturing based organisations. Most recently, he has been leading the Platform Design Programme within the Construction Innovation Hub and is the Chief Engineer responsible for the Construction and Infrastructure sector at MTC.

14.00pm - 15.00pm

The Future of Offsite

To round up the Offsite show the final question is about confidence in the offsite supply-chain when it comes to future market share growth and whether the current upwards trajectory can be maintained. In order to continue to grow there needs to be a belief that businesses will survive no matter what obstacles they encounter. What is the Future for Offsite? With targets in place for public spending and infrastructure development will the construction industry adapt at pace to meet future needs?

Speakers:

Camilla Marcus-Dew, Head of Ventures, Connection Crew

Camilla is now spearheading the growth of Connection Crew CIC’s construction business, but has worked across the social enterprise sector in events, manufacturing, supply chain and retail, building businesses that welcome disabled and homeless people into work that works. Camilla is a certified IEMA Sustainability Practitioner (2021) and On Purpose Fellow (2015) and has won awards for innovation from NatWest, Variety, Campaign, WISE100 spoken internationally, encouraging humans to rethink ‘value’. Camilla also founded brands selling 1m+ units of soap into Boots, PWC and John Lewis and hundreds more organisations, and is now focused on bringing ‘net positive’ offerings to businesses. Prior to SE, Camilla worked across the world in international development and management consulting for global organisations.

Daniel Sadler, Offsite Manufacturing Director, Wates Group

Starting within the construction industry on leaving school 24 years ago, first training as an Apprentice Electrician then steadily rising the ranks through engineering , operational and senior leadership roles, Dan joined Wates Group as Operations Director MEP in 2019.

In November 2020, Wates Group appointed Dan as Offsite Manufacturing Director to lead the expansion and development of its award-winning offsite manufacturing business in Coventry – Prism.

Dan is passionate about offsite manufacturing and other modern methods of construction and is focused on expanding Prism’s offering by developing new innovations that can support the greater use of offsite on projects across the country.

Dirk Vennix, CEO, Ciria

Dirk Vennix is a sector leader with substantial experience in managing major membership organisations. Dirk joined CIRIA as Chief Executive in 2016 having previously launched the Confederation of Timber Industries which promoted offsite construction to Government and Parliament.

For more than 25 years Dirk has successfully delivered stakeholder engagement campaigns in the not-for-profit and private sectors. He previously worked for Centrica plc and Liverpool John Moores University. Dirk started his career as a journalist and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (FCIPR). Dirk gained an MBA with distinction at the University of Bradford in 2000.

Natalie Meunier, National Business Development Director, Premier Modular

Natalie has 15 years consultancy and in house experience in managing the ESG impacts associated with business activity. Natalie has worked across a range of sectors providing advice and assurance with regards to environmental performance improvements, social impact and ESG strategy. Natalie has been driving ESG within NG Bailey for over 5 years and has most recently been involved in setting the corporate strategy and driving the creation of a carbon calculator to quantify the carbon impacts associated with Offsite manufacture. Natalie is a passionate advocate for sustainable construction and the benefits that Offsite Manufacture can deliver as the industry transforms to meet its Net Zero future.

Annette Pass, Head of Innovation, National Highways

Annette was appointed Head of Innovation in 2017. She has 20 years' experience at Highways England in research management, international co-ordination and Lean, where she has driven a continuous improvement culture within Highways England and its suppliers. A passionate advocate of change and improvement in the construction industry, she has a strong record in leading and delivering improvements in asset management, engineering and technical assurance.

Rocío Martín-Durán, PhD Researcher, University of Portsmouth

A self-described data-enthusiastic, Rocio Martin-Duran is a PhD researcher at the university of Portsmouth who is committed to embracing innovation and change to improve and create a good impact on the AECO industry. With and extensive background in Building Engineering and BIM, she has spent the last years exploring the adoption of DfMA and OSM. She has contributed to numerous research papers. Also, she is part of in Women in BIM organisation, where she aims to encourage women to enter BIM and digital related roles. Driven by her data passion she is currently investigating the potential of using cutting-edge technology, particularly Big Data and IoT to support a most efficient construction method in an off-site manufacturing context.

In addition to her involvement in research, Rocio maintains her role as BIM Coordinator. Her understanding and commitment in both industry and academia, has allowed her to be recognized as a valuable asset demystifying the industry–academia barrier myth.

Co-located with

UKCW London

GDL

Concrete Expo

Civils Expo

Associations & Media Partners

buildoffsite

Ciria

BEis