Upcoming Events

UK Construction Week

03 - 05 October 2023 , NEC Birmingham, North Avenue, Marston Green, Birmingham, B40 1NT

BOS are proud to partner with UKCW this October at Birmingham NEC. Co-located with Timber Expo, Grand Designs Live and Green Living Live.

UKCW is a catalyst for change in the sector as we gather the top speakers to panel our many seminar theatres to discuss and debates the issues affecting construction, and we believe this is where real change can happen.

Register your free place to UK Construction Week.

BOS offer plenty of opportunities for members and non-members to participate in panel discussions, seminars, workshops and sponsorship opportunities.

Each of the three days has a focus theme – view the full programme at the Buildoffsite Theatre & Innovation Hub.

3rd October

Seminar: Offsite construction – concept design and delivery [launch of BOS publication guidance]

Debate: Modular Newsreel – fact or fiction, setting the record straight

Innovation Hub Challenge: Carbon reduction – improving productivity, harnessing innovation

4th October 

Seminar: Constructing for tomorrow: the race to digitise construction.

Can digitalisation eliminate project delays, labour shortages, ease compliance regulations, improve worker productivity, enhance transparency & reporting, forecast rising cost of materials and real-time impacts?

Debate: Where does digital take us? What are the opportunities?

Innovation Hub Challenge: Who are the digital disruptors for construction tomorrow? Digital, AI, robotics, and digital [Dragon’s Den for Offsite]

5th October

Seminar Session: What makes a house a home? What do we need?

Debate: What can MMC Offer where traditional fails? [Property assurance, quality, and defects]

Innovation Hub Challenge: What is the next big idea in delivering new homes using modular?

 

What’s new in offsite? A Hertfordshire Building Control webinar

18 July 2023 , Webinar

Join Hertfordshire Building Control for their upcoming webinar including special guests from Buildoffsite. This exciting event will feature informative presentations by two prominent offsite construction companies, Tempo Housing and Donaldson Timber, who will enlighten us on the cutting-edge offsite technology being employed in the industry. They will delve into the current offsite technology that is revolutionising the construction sector, and shed light on emerging innovations entering the market.

Book your free place

Attendees will have the opportunity to learn directly from industry leaders about the practical applications, benefits, and future potential of offsite construction. From modular building techniques to prefabricated components, these experts will showcase how offsite technology is reshaping the way we build.

Whether you are a building professional seeking to stay ahead of the curve, an architect interested in incorporating offsite methods into your projects, or simply curious about the future of construction, this CPD-certified event promises to be an invaluable source of knowledge.

Speakers

  • Trevor Clements, Hertfordshire Building Control
  • Ken Davie, Buildoffsite
  • John O’Brien, Tempohousing UK
  • David Johnson, Volumetric Building Companies

When
18 July 2023
16:00 – 17:00

Aliaxis factory visit

11 July 2023 , Aliaxis, Swaffield Park, Hyssop Close, Cannock, WS11 7FU

Join us for a factory visit to discover how Aliaxis provides communities around the world with sustainable innovative solutions for building, infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural applications.

Book your place

Aliaxis has put a great deal of thought into the development of vertical and horizontal modular services components.  They range from basic pipework sub-assemblies and pre-mounted back panels, to utility cupboards and complex storey height 3D combinations of pipework and ducts stackable up to 16 storeys with safety features built in.

The event will include a presentation by Aliaxis about the products, covering the health and safety advantages and how use of the assemblies can reduce construction periods and site labour requirements.  This will be followed by a factory tour and an opportunity to ask the Aliaxis team questions.

Limited places available, so please register as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss this fascinating learning opportunity.

Why attend?

  • Offsite fabrication is being used more and more across the entire construction section and it is not all about MMC Category 1, volumetric modular. This event will showcase a range of products that can be incorporated into projects based on other prefabricated and traditional structural solutions.
  • The event will be an excellent networking opportunity for members to hear some of the latest trends in the Offsite sector.
  • Earn valuable CPD

Who should attend?
Clients, developers, consultants and all sizes of contractors with an interest in expanding their knowledge and understanding of offsite beyond purely modular construction.

Minimising carbon emissions using (precast) concrete

04 July 2023 , Webinar

Join this webinar featuring practical examples of good practice seeking to minimise carbon emissions from the use of (precast) concrete.

Background
The manufacture and use of cement in mortar and concrete accounts for around 8% of carbon emissions worldwide, so anything that can be done to reduce the roughly 600 kilograms of carbon dioxide released for every tonne of cement produced must be done to help the overall drive towards Net Zero.

Around 30 billion tonnes of concrete are used every year, which represents a 3-fold increase on a per capita basis in last 40 years. It is a versatile and long-lasting construction material but has a colossal carbon footprint.

Reducing the cement content and using alternative materials such as slag and fly ash reduces the environmental impact of concrete, but the carbon emissions are still significant. As coal is phased out supplies of fly ash will diminish, and there is an inherent risk in moving away from a tried and tested formula.

The webinar, hosted by Buildoffsite and CIRIA’s Driving Net Zero Carbon and Managing Construction Risk Communities of Practice (CoP), will showcase examples of good practice seeking to minimise carbon emissions from the use of (precast) concrete in all its forms whilst also considering the construction risks.

Book your place

Driving Net Zero Carbon CoP brings together sustainability practitioners from across multiple sectors and disciplines within infrastructure to help the Government drive the pathways to NZC 2050. For more information and to get involved, please contact Dr Andy Moores.

Managing Construction Risk CoP brings together practitioners from the construction and insurance sectors to help improve the management of risk and financial performance. For more information and to get involved, please contact Dirk Vennix.

Sponsorship opportunities
For information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Susan Richards.

Why attend

  • Discover how the use of (precast) concrete could significantly minimise carbon emissions and construction risks
  • Hear examples of good practice
  • Understand the perspectives of key stakeholders
  • Earn valuable CPD

Who should attend

  • Construction practitioners
  • Environment, sustainability and carbon leads within the infrastructure sector (transport, housing, development, energy, etc)
  • Policy makers and regulators leading on net zero carbon
  • Research community – to disseminate findings and understand needs to enhance research impact

BOPAS Forum and Beattie Passive House Tour

24 May 2023 , Beattie Passive Build Systems Limited, Unit 1, Carrow Works, Norwich, NR1 2DD

Join us in person for the next BOPAS Forum which will comprise of topical presentations, BOPAS certification awards, and group discussions around themes that are relevant to you and the MMC sector. The Forum will conclude with a factory tour of Beattie Passive.

Please register online and email us any special dietary requirements by 10:00 on Tuesday 16 May to secure your place.

Supported by

The Offsite Show in partnership with Buildoffsite

02 - 04 May 2023 , ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, Royal Docks, London, E16 1XL

In partnership with Buildoffsite, The Offsite Show will return to ExCeL London on 2-4 May 2023 and will unite all suppliers and buyers in the built environment for offsite and pre-manufactured solutions.

The Offsite Show will be co-located with UK Construction Week, Multi-award winning, UK’s largest built environment exhibition allowing you free access to nine other key sections including Concrete Expo, Build, Infrastructure, Offsite and Grand Designs Live. The second show this year will be at UK Construction Week, Birmingham NEC in October 2023.

Buildoffsite will be providing a platform for industry leaders and specialists to showcase the work they are delivering in Offsite showcasing the latest developments in the offsite world.

As a valued member of the Offsite Community, you will have the opportunity to sponsor the innovation hub or the main stage and have your branding visible on all event collateral and have a presence at the Offsite Show and UK Construction Week. The benefit to your organisation is presence at both shows hosted in the Buildoffsite arena. The underpinning theme for Buildoffsite in 2023 is “sustainability” at the core of concept design and delivery.

View synopsis and presentations from the event:

Site visit to new prison development, HMP Millsike

26 April 2023 , HMP Millsike, York
HMP Millsike │ Ministry of Justice

This visit is now fully booked. Please contact Susan Richards to be added to the wait list.

Join us for a visit to the construction site of Britain’s newest ‘smart’ prison, HMP Millsike, designed to house over 1,400 inmates which is being built by Kier opposite the existing HMP Full Sutton.

Background

The Ministry of Justice is benefitting from improvements implemented by the construction partners in the New Prisons Programme with HMP Millsike, the third establishment, now being built beside HMP Full Sutton in East Yorkshire.

Building work started last Autumn on the cutting-edge jail which will open in 2025. Designed with security and rehabilitation in mind, the new Category C prison will be equipped with the latest smart technology.

It will also be the first new prison to operate as zero-carbon in the future, with an all-electric design, solar panels, heat pumps and more efficient lighting systems to reduce energy demand significantly.

One of the initiatives Kier is undertaking is the tagging and tracking of pre-cast components, to reduce carbon emissions, improve quality, and simplify valuations. This has the potential to deliver benefits across the entire construction sector and it is one of topics Kier will speak about when Buildoffsite visits the construction site in April.

If your company is seeking to find every means possible to reduce its carbon footprint this is an ideal opportunity to learn about how a Tier One contractor is tackling the Net Zero challenge. Every little counts!

Limited places available, so please register as soon as possible to ensure you don’t miss this fascinating learning opportunity.

This visit is part of a rolling programme of Buildoffsite and CIRIA events, webinars and publications focussed on net zero carbon for different construction methods and materials.

Why attend

  • Go behind the scenes of the construction of a pre-manufactured concrete structure in progress.
  • Hear how the site team is applying the lessons learned from a recently completed similar project to manage pre-cast and MEP modules from design to installation.

Who should attend

  • Buildoffsite members seeking to become part of the supply chain for the Ministry of Justice new prisons programme.
  • Places are limited – please register online by 10:00 on 12 April 2023.

What is the path to sustainable infrastructure?

19 April 2023 , London

Join us in person for our annual lecture and networking reception. This special event will explore the opportunity for sustainable infrastructure and the challenges we must overcome to reach net zero carbon targets.

This event is free to attend for all Buildoffsite and CIRIA members (limited to two places per company). Please complete and return the booking form to Charlotte Draper by 10:00 on 18 April 2023.

Background
We are in the midst of a climate and nature emergency. More and more cities are being affected by natural threats associated with the climate crisis such as flooding, heat stress and water scarcity, and these disasters are expected to intensify with no city immune.

Cities must look beyond economic development to the health of their natural environment and the quality of life of their inhabitants. They are beginning to prioritise their environment, social, and government (ESG) targets.

It is time for systemic change in climate change adaptation and resilience. Therein lies the opportunity to create a sustainable, infrastructure-led recovery that will transform economies and leave the environment in a better condition for future generations.

Join us at our annual lecture to hear thought-leaders discuss the need for resilience in infrastructure and cities, and the construction industry’s response to delivering resilience across new and aging infrastructure.

Sponsorship opportunities
For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Susan Richards.

Why attend

  • Understand the challenges and opportunities to make societies inclusive, safe, climate resilient and sustainable
  • Explore how we can achieve a deep and fast transition when many governments have record debt and the technology needed is still in development
  • Discover how civil engineering is contributing to solving problems for the built environment
  • Learn ways to reduce impact through design and low carbon materials
  • Network with fellow industry professionals
  • Earn valuable CPD

Buildoffsite members’ meeting

14 March 2023 , Online

Join us at the virtual Buildoffsite members’ meeting which will feature industry presentations and updates.

This member-exclusive event is free to attend for all Buildoffsite and CIRIA members. Please register online by 10:00 on 13 March 2023.

Post-event materials

The speakers’ presentations are available here.

Linear infrastructure overbuild seminar

21 February 2023 , Transport for London, Victoria Station House, 8th Floor, 191 Victoria Street, SW1E 5NE

Join this in-person event hosted by Transport for London to launch Buildoffsite’s recent ‘Linear infrastructure overbuild guide’ and learn how using offsite solutions can contribute to this form of development.

Background
Cities have an ever-increasing need for additional, good quality housing as they continue to grow. Greenfield sites are often almost non-existent within existing city boundaries, which means their brownfield and demolition sites are the norm for redevelopment projects.

In this context, where demolition or remedial costs can be significant, the possibility to embrace innovative infrastructure overbuild approaches becomes an exciting, new alternative – one which becomes even more attractive where the infrastructure corridor land is in quasi-public ownership.

Buildoffsite’s recently published Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide presents the broad solution to a truly golden opportunity for Housing-led Urban Regeneration. More specifically, it creates an ideal platform (literally) for designers, manufacturers and developers to demonstrate the benefits of DfMA, where traditional construction methods are unlikely to be feasible.

The guide sets out to demonstrate how using offsite solutions can contribute to this form of development. Inspired by WSP’s Out of Thin Air reports, it aims to do three things:

  • Make more potential sites viable, creating homes and offsite project opportunities.
  • Enable stakeholders to consider how to unlock more of this potential.
  • Help more developers and suppliers to be involved with infrastructure overbuild.

Hear first-hand from the guide’s editors and lead authors to explore the challenges, opportunities and benefits of offsite to overbuild, and gain insight and inspiration from other overbuild projects.

Buildoffsite is the voice of the offsite construction industry. For more information about membership, please contact Dirk Vennix.

Sponsorship opportunities
For information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Susan Richards.

Why attend

  • Discover the linear infrastructure overbuild opportunity for cities and how offsite approaches are beneficial.
  • Understand the key commercial aspects to be considered when setting up an overbuild project and how some major projects have been managed.
  • Gain insight into the practicalities of creating sites above railways.
  • Be inspired by case studies of overbuild project from around the world.
  • Earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend

Planners, landowners, architects, designers, manufacturers and developers.

Net zero carbon in construction

06 December 2022

11am-12.30pm

Join this webinar, hosted by Buildoffsite and CIRIA’s Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice, to discover how the construction industry is transitioning to net zero carbon.

The built environment generates 30% of total greenhouse gas emissions and construction uses 32% of the world’s natural resources. As the biggest contributor to climate change, the construction industry has the greatest opportunity and responsibility to reduce emissions.

This webinar will explore how the sector is innovating to achieve net zero carbon and how offsite can deliver ESG targets and improve the sustainability of the built environment. Attendees will hear first-hand from the authors of Buildoffsite’s new guidance ‘Achieving sustainable resilience in new precast concrete structures’, learn from a practical case study on net zero construction and discover tools to measure carbon emissions in the supply chain.

Buildoffsite is the voice of the offsite construction industry. For more information about membership, please contact Dirk Vennix.

Achieving Net Zero Carbon (NZC) in the construction sector is a significant challenge and one which requires collectively exploring the issues and collaborating to find solutions. To facilitate this, CIRIA has launched a new Community of Practice: Driving Net Zero Carbon which brings together sustainability practitioners from across multiple sectors and disciplines within infrastructure to help the Government drive the pathways to NZC 2050. For more information and to get involved, please contact Andy Moores.

Agenda

11:00 – Welcome and introduction

Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

Dr Kat Ibbotson, Director, Strategic Advisory, WSP and Chair, CIRIA Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice

11:05 – Achieving sustainable resilience in new precast concrete structures

Dr Chris Atkins, Technical Principal, Materials and Corrosion Technology, Mott MacDonald

Graeme Jones, Managing Director, C-Probe Systems

11:20 – Improving the sustainability of the built environment with ESG

Mark Graham, Business Development Director, Premier Modular (invited)

11:35 – A practical case study on net zero construction: The Forge

Mark Griffin, Offsite Integration Manager, NG Bailey (invited)

11:50 – How meeting the Green Revolution targets for the UK enables Offsite to deliver and offer long-term assurances around MMC

George Ghobrial, Senior Sales Development Executive, Sustainability Tool, Supply Chain Sustainability School (invited)

12:05 – Interactive discussion and Q&A

12:25 – Closing remarks 

 

To register please complete and return the booking form to Susan Richards

 

Pipes & Sewers – Bringing it all together

29 November 2022

The end of this years Networks November month brings everyone together in a face-to-face session that will:

  • Shares the outputs from the sessions to date
  • Outline what is the “New” thinking that has emerged
  • ‘What’s in the mirror’ – reflect back on how we view the underground
  • Explore who to benchmark against
  • Produce a ‘fit for purpose’ scorecard
  • Set out what needs to happen, now, during AMP8 and over the next 10-15 years

The critical outputs will be presented back to Government, regulators and outline future innovations required.

VENUE

NCVO, Society Building, 8 All Saints Street,

London, N1 9RL United Kingdom

Register here

Timber construction (for reduced carbon)

23 November 2022

Join this webinar, hosted by Buildoffsite and CIRIA’s Communities of Practice, exploring the use of timber construction to drive net zero carbon in the residential sector whilst managing construction risk.

Background

If there is a single construction material with the potential to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of the UK construction sector it has to be timber. Approximately 85% of homes in Scotland are timber frame construction and though the percentage in England and Wales is much lower, the numbers are growing year on year.This event will consider different construction methods and approaches to the use of wood in various types of development including:

  • Timber frame construction (John Smith, Donaldson Timber)
  • Mass engineered timber (David Miller, David Miller Architects)
  • Maximising use of local resources (Gary Newman, Woodknowledge Wales)

Construction and regulatory risks will also be covered.

Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice
Launched in 2020, CIRIA’s Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice (CoP) brings together practitioners from the construction and insurance sectors with the objective of improving the management of risk and financial performance. For more information and to get involved, please contact Dirk Vennix.

Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice
Achieving Net Zero Carbon (NZC) in the construction sector is a significant challenge and one which requires collectively exploring the issues and collaborating to find solutions. To facilitate this, CIRIA has launched a new Community of Practice: Driving Net Zero Carbon which brings together sustainability practitioners from across multiple sectors and disciplines within infrastructure to help the Government drive the pathways to NZC 2050. For more information and to get involved, please contact Andy Moores.

Why attend

  • Learn more about various timber construction methods and types of materials.
  • Understand how use of timber will help achieve net zero carbon targets.
  • Find out about the risks and regulatory issues related to timber construction.
  • Earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend

  • Insurance sector practitioners: risk engineers, underwriters and brokers
  • Construction sector practitioners: insurance buyers, quality assurance managers, project managers as well as financial and legal experts working for asset owners and operators, T1/T2 contractors, designers and suppliers
  • Procurement specialists working for publicly funded bodies
  • Lenders
  • Developers
  • Housing associations and social housing providers
  • Regulators
  • Research community
  • Trade associations

When
Wednesday 23 November 2022
10:30 – 12:30

Programme
10:30 Welcome and introduction
Dirk Vennix, Chief Executive, CIRIA
Dr Kat Ibbotson, Director, Strategic Advisory, WSP and
Chair, CIRIA Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice (Invited)

10:40 Introduction to topic and residential sector perspective
John Smith, Technical Director, Donaldson Timber

11:00 Engineered timber in the UK and abroad
David Miller, Director, David Miller Architects

11:20 Homegrown homes
Gary Newman, CEO, Woodknowledge Wales

11:40 Insurance risks

Ryan Jones, Senior Risk Consultant, QBE Europe Operations

12:00 Interactive discussion and Q&A

12:25 Closing remarks

To register please complete and return the booking form to Susan Richards.

Buildoffsite visits to HS2 precast factory

16 November 2022

Construction of the Chiltern tunnel, and nearby Colne Valley Viaduct, is being led by HS2’s main works contractor, Align JV – a joint venture made up of three companies: Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine, and Volker Fitzpatrick. Work is underway with the help two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) spending more than 3 years underground, digging and slotting 112,000 wall segments into place to create the 10 mile long Chiltern tunnel.

The segments are being produced at a temporary pre-cast factory next to the TBM launch pads at what will be the south portal of the tunnels. This will avoid putting extra HGVs on local roads and ensure a steady supply of segments for the TBMs. Once construction is complete, the pre-cast factory and the rest of the south portal site, will be cleared, with the chalk excavated from the tunnels used to landscape the site and create high quality chalk grassland and other wildlife habitats.

Buildoffsite members will be able to visit the Chiltern tunnel precast factory site in the Colne Valley on Wednesday 12th October and Wednesday 16th November.

For logistical reasons the numbers are restricted to 5 members (one per company) per visit. Places will be allocated to transport hub members first and others will be registered on a  first come, first served basis.

Agenda:

09:30 – Arrive at car park and check in at visitor centre

09:30-10:00 – Welcome and project presentation at visitor centre

10:00-10:15 – PPE up at visitor centre

10:15-11:30 – Walk to and visit tunnel precast factory

11.30-12.00 – Return to visitor centre car park

Register here for:

Wednesday 14th September – Fully booked

Wednesday 12th October – Fully booked

Wednesday 16th November

A video explaining the work can be found here.

Networks November – Bringing together the new voices

04 November 2022

10am-3pm

The session will focus on:

  • What do newbies think should be the sector vision
  • Perceptions versus reality of working in water sector
  • EDI – are we driving engagement outside the sector and encouraging a more diverse, equal workforce
  • Mentors/Mentees
  • Having a voice that is listened to

New to the sector (within your first years) – join us, engage, express your views and express what you think needs to change

The session will be led by Dr Sarah Cotterill Assistant Professor, School of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin and winner of the Emerging Talent award.

VENUE

CIRIA, Griffin court, 15 Long Ln, Barbican, London

London, EC1A 9PN United Kingdom

Register here

Offsite construction risk management

04 October 2022

Join this webinar to learn how to approach offsite construction risk.

Background
Working in conjunction with Buildoffsite, the voice of the offsite construction industry, CIRIA will host a webinar covering the opportunities and challenges around managing offsite construction. We will hear from Buildoffsite members and will also get the perspectives from clients, suppliers, accreditors, and brokers.

Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice
Launched in 2020, CIRIA’s Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice (CoP) brings together practitioners from the construction and insurance sectors with the objective of improving the management of risk and financial performance.

Through a series of network events and integrated resources the CoP will help deliver more focused collaboration and enhance knowledge transfer in risk management. The events examined within the CoP network include:

  • Evaluating industry guidance on water damage risk management
  • Offsite construction risk management
  • Timber frame construction

For more information about Managing Construction Risk CoP, please contact Dirk Vennix.

Why attend

  • Improve your understanding of how all risk policies are being developed and where clear guidelines have yet to emerge attendees can help share good practice.
  • Enhance knowledge and understanding of how the offsite construction sector operates to control risk.
  • Find out what CIRIA’s Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice will deliver for members and how this will support practitioners with their CPD programmes.

Who should attend

  • Insurance sector practitioners: risk engineers, underwriters and brokers
  • Construction sector practitioners: insurance buyers, quality assurance managers, project managers as well as financial and legal experts working for asset owners and operators, T1/T2 contractors, designers and suppliers
  • Procurement specialists working for publicly funded bodies
  • Lenders
  • Developers
  • Research community
  • Trade associations

When
Tuesday 4 October 2022
10:30 – 12:30

Programme
10:30 Welcome and introduction
Dirk Vennix, Chief Executive, CIRIA

10:35 Sector perspective on developing offsite construction and managing risk
Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Research & Standards, Buildoffsite

10:50 Stakeholder perspectives

Client perspective: Veronica Flint-Williams, Contract and Risk Manager, Environment Agency
Contractor perspective: Nick Mead, Technical Director, Laing O’Rourke

11:05 Good practice in manging offsite construction – accreditor perspective. The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) presents evidence that developers can demonstrate to lenders that their developments will be designed, manufactured and constructed by BOPAS organisations in accordance with an accredited design system.
Terry Mundy, Consultant, LRQA

11:25 Good practice in manging offsite construction
Broker perspective: Andy Kane, Portfolio Manager Construction and Environmental QBE (invited)

11:45 Interactive discussion and Q&A

12:25 Closing remarks

Fees

  • Community of Practice members* (Environment Agency) – Free to attend
  • Buildoffsite members ** – Free to attend
  • CIRIA members*** – Free to attend
  • Non-members*** – £45 + VAT

*   Please complete and return the booking form to Susan Richards to register.
** Please register here.
***Please register via the CIRIA website

Buildoffsite Member Meeting & Factory Tour with NG Bailey

27 September 2022

                                                                                       

NG Bailey is one of the largest leading independent engineering and services businesses in the UK.

Its offsite manufacturing facility is a pioneer of factory-assembled modular building services solutions, providing pre-tested and insulated M&E systems that can be rapidly connected and commissioned.

Member Networking Dinner

Date: 27 September

Time: 5.30pm

Venue: Aagrah Midpoint Bradford | Buffet & Banqueting Suite

The Aagrah Building, Midpoint, Pudsey, BD3 7AY, UK

Google Maps

Register here

Buildoffsite Member Meeting & Factory Tour with NG Bailey

Date: 28 September

Time: 10.00-13.30

Venue: NG Bailey, Offsite Manufacture, Bradford

Address: Unit A, Kingsmark Freeway, Oakenshaw, Bradford, BD12 7HW

Directions: Google Maps

NG Bailey Hosts & Presenters: Mark Griffin, Joe Walsh, Grahame Brady

Buildoffsite Attendees: Keith Blanshard, Dirk Vennix, Fareita Udoh

Agenda

10.00: Buildoffsite Registration & Networking

10.30: Buildoffsite Introduction – Dirk Vennix CEO Ciria

10.40: NG Bailey Introduction to Carbon Calculator & Materiality Decisions at Planning & Design Phase

11.00: Supplier Showcase: Innovation, Logistics & Sustainability

11.30: Factory Floor Visit

12.15: Lunch & Networking

12.45: NG Bailey Forward Work Plans

13.00: Q&A followed by Networking

Presentations from the day can be found here.

Preserving embodied CO2 with resilience management systems

16 June 2022

09:15 – 10:30

This webinar will highlight a collaborative venture to develop and manufacture a standardised modular component aiming to preserve structures for whole life with control and data-driven performance.

Following 10 years of collaboration with Sheffield Hallam University, C-Probe further collaborated with The MTC to develop an alkali-activated cementitious (AACM) restoration smart product with the capacity to provide electrochemical protection to steel for the control and prevention of corrosion during the whole life of a structure.The collaboration has resulted in a lean manufacturing process of this product, which demonstrates value stream mapping and efficient use of equipment and labour.

The end result, LoCemincorporates industrial wastes into its production, which helps yield up to 90% less CO2e than CEM1. This is a vital contribution to net zero and decarbonisation of the built environment, with its ultimate objective being the long-term resilience and control of corrosion within concrete infrastructures.

Join this webinar to hear first-hand from the developers about the background to the concept, its journey from prototype to manufacturing capability, its success in restoring structures, and how this further developed into a product used for modular implementation into new build structures.

The speakers will present the:

  •  Development of a pilot plant to manufacture 250,000 components per year as a precursor to analysing market demand before scaling.

This webinar will demonstrate the process and benefits of the collaboration from planning stages to the long-term resilience benefits of the end product for asset owners who seek to futureproof their structures from disrepair.

Why attend 

From attending this webinar you will:

  • Understand innovations that are emerging to address the decarbonisation of the built environment using resilience management for structures, mitigating climate change risks.
  • Gain knowledge around a topic that is relevant across the construction industry as it approaches Net Zero and move towards the adoption of modern methods of construction.
  • Discover ways to build better structures as a legacy for next generational use and maintenance.
  • Increase your awareness surrounding the process of cathodic protection and the impact corrosion has on the integrity and safety of existing structures.
  • Earn valuable CPD

Who should attend 

  • Asset owners, engineers, architects, precasters, contractors.
  • Designers, project managers, buyers.
  • Professionals who wish to adopt technology to address climate change and provide sustainable resilience to their built assets.

Programme

09.15  Welcome and introduction from the Chair – Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

09.20 Learning from experience: protecting existing structures

Retrofitting sustainable resilience systems to existing structural assets.

  • How structures suffer due to corrosion
  • Methods to retrofit protection solutions
  • Development of low carbon materials to repair and protect structures
  • Long-term data driven performance options
  • New factory developments

Graeme Jones, Managing Director, C-Probe Systems Limited

09.35  The manufacturing perspective: from concept to reality

Developing a lean and scalable manufacturing line for C-Probe’s modular anode unit (MAU).

  • Introduction to MTC and their services – MMC’s and modular build work
  • Design and process failure mode and effects analysis (FMEAs)
  • Value stream mapping to identify labour and equipment efficiencies
  • Scaling from 250k MAUs to planning a 5million MAU factory

Mark Sutherberry, Business Development Manager, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

09.50 The opportunity: protecting new structures from day one

Providing structural resilience for new build assets

  • What is an MAU?
  • The whole life technical and carbon benefits
  • The economic benefits and ROI for new build

Graeme Jones, Managing Director, C-Probe Systems Limited

10.05  Interactive discussion and Q&A

Fees
Buildoffsite members: Free to attend* – Register here
*Non-members £45 + VAT

Booking
*Please sign in or create an account to register online for this event.
If you are experiencing issues registering online, please complete and return the booking form to James Nguyen.
Alternatively please email enquiries@ciria.org

BOPAS Plus Launch and ModPods International site visit

26 May 2022

Timings – 10.00 – 15.00

Location – ModPods International Ltd, Hall 3, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, CV8 2RN

At the last BOPAS Forum, held in September 2021, the basis for a step change in the further development of the BOPAS scheme was outlined.

From its inception BOPAS has sought to maintain relevance and added value through being progressively updated to incorporate scheme controls to mitigate generic risks to the offsite sector, as these were identified.

In response to Government led initiatives, aimed at driving digitisation and a more collaborative culture within the construction sector, BOPAS plus has been developed to introduce greater focus on the preparedness of the offsite sector to positively address the digitisation challenge.

The ‘BOPAS Plus’ scheme has been subject to a validation process involving four BOPAS accredited manufacturers all at different positions within the digitisation and offsite spectrum.

The BOPAS partners are now pleased to present the validated scheme and to describe to you how the enhanced scheme will integrate with the current scheme and associated schedule.

Programme

10.00 – 10.30 Registration and networking
10.30 – 10.40 Welcome and Introduction – Karl Miller, Construction Sector Manager, LRQA
10.40 – 11.00 The Role of Offsite in productivity growth within Construction – Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub
11.00 – 11.15 Homes England – Offsite strategy – Eleanor Bowden Senior Strategy Specialist
11.15 – 11.45 BOPAS PLUS Development and overview – Terry Mundy, Consultant, LRQA
11.45 – 12.00 Award of BOPAS + certificates and feedback from Pilot participants
12.00 – 12.30 Panel discussion and Q&A on BOPAS +
12.30 – 12.40 Buildoffsite – Facilitating offsite solutions – Dirk Vennix, CEO, CIRIA
12.40 – 12.50 Collaboration in the Offsite sector – Gaynor Tennant, Co Founder and Chair of the Offsite Alliance
12.50 – 13.00 Opportunity for Final Q&A
13.00 – 13.45 Lunch and networking
13.45 – 15.00 Tour of ModPods Int. factory

Register here

Supported by

New Offsite Show at London’s ExCeL 3-5 May 2022

03 - 05 May 2022 , ExCeL London, E16 1XL

The new Offsite Show will be organised by Industry Expo, a Media 10 Group company, in partnership with Buildoffsite and will be co-located with UK Construction Week (UKCW), 4 dedicated UK Construction Week Summits and Grand Designs Live.

Whilst being an independent and vertical event, specifically for the offsite market, it will benefit from the added interest from the expected 38,000 visitors to UKCW; which will include not only others with an interest in offsite, but new potential contacts in all fields of construction.

The underpinning theme of the event will be about the opportunities created from utilising offsite solutions, and provide a showcase for a new and ever expanding market which is a vital component within the “Roadmap to Recovery”.

The Offsite Show will be the only UK event that brings together the client and supply chain for all aspects of the rapidly expanding offsite construction sector.

The Offsite Show is for all sectors and will provide a business to business networking opportunity for those funders, clients, designers, constructors and suppliers who wish to improve the quality, performance in use, asset value and value of construction – both building and civil engineering.

Register your interest

MMC’s impact from design to whole lifecycle

23 March 2022

Join us at our 2nd annual virtual conference dedicated to the offsite sector and the opportunities for Modern Methods of Construction (MMC). With awareness of MMC continuing to grow, this conference will focus on MMC’s impact from design to whole lifecycle and how we can overcome the challenges and barriers to wider adoption and implementation.

Background
MMC represents the fastest growing area of construction, and has been hailed as a viable way to address the UK’s housing crisis and provide sustainable construction solutions in other sectors such as infrastructure.

However, despite its numerous benefits, barriers persist ranging from lack of industry standardisation, upfront investment and access to funding, availability of materials, to lack of stakeholder engagement including architects and designers.

This conference will shine the spotlight on:

• how MMC is helping to achieve net zero targets on projects
• MMC’s contribution to rethinking ‘value’ and whole life cycle including design and maintenance
• the role of MMC in delivering transport and logistical solutions
• financial incentives for innovating through MMC.

In association with:

Sponsorship opportunities
For more information about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Susan Richards.

Why attend

  • Discover how MMC construction helps achieve net zero carbon targets and decarbonises the built environment.
  • Hear how MMC makes it easier to design, construct, maintain, repair and repurpose assets across the whole lifecycle.
  • Understand the challenges for transport and logistics, and how MMC’s approach to digitisation and data is offering solutions.
  • Learn about access to funding challenges for MMC projects and how recognised industry assurance schemes are mitigating the risks.
  • Earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend
Manufacturers, architects and designers, clients, consultants, contractors, academics and students, material suppliers, local authorities, procurement managers, environmental and sustainability managers, regulators, research organisations, and government bodies.

When
Wednesday 23 March 2022
09:00 – 13:30 GMT

Programme

Click here to view the programme and speaker line up.

Fees
Buildoffsite members: Free to attend
CIRIA members: £50 + VAT
Non-members: £100 + VAT

Booking

Buildoffsite members can register here.
Non members please sign in or create an account to register online for this event.
If you are experiencing issues registering online, please complete and return the booking form to James Nguyen.
Alternatively please email enquiries@ciria.org

Joining instructions will be sent 10 days before the event. The link to attend the webinar is strictly personal and should not be shared.

Terms and Conditions
Click here for details of our terms and conditions that will apply.
Personal data is gathered in accordance with CIRIA’s privacy policy.

Further information
For further information on CIRIA membership and other services, please contact:
Email: enquiries@ciria.org
Web: www.ciria.org

R&D in the offsite sector – Financial reward for innovation

09 February 2022

10am-11am

The offsite industry offers many opportunities to innovate, addressing numerous challenges in projects daily. Your business needs to remain agile & adapt to achieve a solution. So many qualifying projects are ignored as day-to-day business when these could be an R&D tax credits claim.

To benefit from R&D tax incentives, you must:

  • Be a limited company in the UK that is subject to Corporation Tax.
  • Have carried out qualifying research and development activities.
  • Have spent money [eg staffing costs, subcontracted R&D, externally providing workers] on these projects;

To find out more about R&D in the offsite sector – register to attend.

Buildoffsite Member Meeting

02 February 2022

Agenda

10.00  Introduction from meeting Chair – Dirk Vennix, Buildoffsite

10.05  Buildoffsite Update

  • Updates on the research and the working groups – Nigel Fraser, Fareita Udoh, Buildoffsite
  • WIMES update – Roger Marlow, The Pump Centre, Arcadis

10.15   Transforming Construction programme – Sam Stacey, ISCF Challenge Director for Transforming Construction, UKRI

The Transforming Construction Programme, born out of the Construction Sector Deal, brought together industry and government to increase the construction industry’s benefit to society. By September this year investments of £170m and £250m will have been made by government and industry, respectively. The Programme has defined the value and platform approaches to construction, demonstrated numerous solutions and driven a fundamental change in procurement policy. Sam Stacey, the Programme Director, will present these outputs, and discuss the legacy of opportunities and threats for the industry stakeholders.

10.30  Update on government’s MMC projects – David Hancock, CIRIA Chairman and Director Construction at IPA within Cabinet Office

Dr David Hancock will provide an update of the latest plans for government MMC build projects including prisons, universities and schools. He will outline how MMC is helping aid the Government’s drive for standardisation, harmonisation and digitisation.

David will also touch on the impact of the pipeline programme and Construction Playbook.

10.45   Infrastructure overbuild – an update – Bill Price, Strategic Growth Director, WSP

Developers and transport stakeholders have continued to be interested in exploiting air-rights and overbuild opportunities in London and beyond. Bill Price of WSP will provide an update on UK activity in this sector as well as potential overseas projects.

11.00  Q&A

11.15   Update from Offsite community

  • BOPAS Update – Terry Mundy, LRQA
  • Industry developments – Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite
  • Offsite Construction Show update

11.30-12.00 Buildoffsite Member Update

New members:

  • Stuart Kerr, Danfoss
  • Nigel Rake, Roger Bullivant
  • Stephen Wightman, Faithful Gould

Existing Members:

  • NG Bailey – Graeme Brady

12.15 Looking ahead

  • What Buildoffsite have got coming up in Q1/Q2

12.30 closing remarks Dirk Venix, acting Buildoffsite Business Manager

Presentations can be accessed here.

Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery Supplier Workshop

25 January 2022

10am-1pm

As part of the development of our new guidance, Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery, we will be hosting our second interactive workshop following our first on 7th December 2021 for all supply chain members to input their views, knowledge and experiences of offsite projects.

Project Background

The Government’s Industrial Strategy – Construction Sector deal sees the four goals of Construction 2025 being met by focusing on three strategic areas: digital techniques, offsite manufacturing and whole life asset performance. Offsite construction is further supported by the Government’s commitment to offsite construction for capital build projects from 2019 (Treasury budget document November 2017) and in the policies presented in the Construction Playbook (December 2020).

It is proposed that a good practice guide is produced to support initial concept planning for offsite construction, which could then be developed into a scheme design enabling clients to be better informed to specify and procure offsite on their projects. The guide will show what is possible when an offsite solution is sought and will enable the presumption in favour of offsite construction to be fully explored.

This new guide is primarily aimed at clients and those procuring new buildings & infrastructure to be better informed on the offsite options available in the sector and to make an initial assessment of the optimum use of offsite & MMC. It is anticipated it will also be used by planners and consultants, whilst also benefitting suppliers of products and services by giving them an opportunity to showcase offsite capability and identify where more standardised products could be developed. Where a client has a pipeline of work with similar requirements over an extended time frame they should consider developing a procurement strategy that involves the identification of product families and standardised product portfolios.

CIRIA & Buildoffsite’s guide will be complementary to other industry initiatives and outputs. The construction sector appears to be at a tipping point with respect to wider use of MMC and in particular, offsite solutions. To ensure that clients and suppliers realise the potential benefits, guidance is required to exploit lessons learnt by prior projects and to highlight areas where innovation is happening.

The project brief can be viewed here.

Who should attend?

  • Architects
  • Contractors
  • Manufacturers
  • Suppliers
  • Quantity Surveyors
  • Cost Consultants

Further details will follow in due course, but to register your interest please click here.

Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery Client Workshop

15 December 2021

As part of the development of our new guidance, Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery, we will be hosting an interactive workshop for all clients to input their views, knowledge and experiences of offsite projects.

Project Background

The Government’s Industrial Strategy – Construction Sector deal sees the four goals of Construction 2025 being met by focusing on three strategic areas: digital techniques, offsite manufacturing and whole life asset performance. Offsite construction is further supported by the Government’s commitment to offsite construction for capital build projects from 2019 (Treasury budget document November 2017) and in the policies presented in the Construction Playbook (December 2020).

It is proposed that a good practice guide is produced to support initial concept planning for offsite construction, which could then be developed into a scheme design enabling clients to be better informed to specify and procure offsite on their projects. The guide will show what is possible when an offsite solution is sought and will enable the presumption in favour of offsite construction to be fully explored.

This new guide is primarily aimed at clients and those procuring new buildings & infrastructure to be better informed on the offsite options available in the sector and to make an initial assessment of the optimum use of offsite & MMC. It is anticipated it will also be used by planners and consultants, whilst also benefitting suppliers of products and services by giving them an opportunity to showcase offsite capability and identify where more standardised products could be developed. Where a client has a pipeline of work with similar requirements over an extended time frame they should consider developing a procurement strategy that involves the identification of product families and standardised product portfolios.

CIRIA & Buildoffsite’s guide will be complementary to other industry initiatives and outputs. The construction sector appears to be at a tipping point with respect to wider use of MMC and in particular, offsite solutions. To ensure that clients and suppliers realise the potential benefits, guidance is required to exploit lessons learnt by prior projects and to highlight areas where innovation is happening.

The project brief can be viewed here.

Who should attend?

  • Public Sector Clients
  • Private Sector Clients
  • Government

Further details will follow in due course, but to register your interest please click here.

The Construction Playbook: Impacts and Adoption

14 December 2021

Published in December 2020, The Construction Playbook aimed to enable faster and greener infrastructure delivery through better approaches and stronger relationships between private sector clients and the supply chain. Twelve months on, has it begun to deliver on its objectives?

Background

Following the publication of The Construction Playbook in December 2020, this webinar will explore the impact it has had on our industry and whether it has started to deliver on its intended objectives to deliver a more efficient, safer, modern construction industry for now and the future.

Earlier this year, Buildoffsite published a report, An Offsite Sector Response to the Government’s Construction Playbook, highlighting how offsite suppliers can benefit from this whilst also challenging the sector to evolve.

Hear first-hand from that report’s author, Nigel Fraser, and gain insight from those who developed the Playbook as well as the supply chain and services tasked with delivering the objectives. We will understand what changes have happened in the first 12 months and what the needs to happen for wider adoption to drive better results for clients and the supply chain.

Sponsored by:

In association with:

Why attend

  • Understand how The Construction Playbook impacts your business and why it matters.
  • Benefit from increased collaboration to drive improvement and innovation in the built environment.
  • Learn how increased adoption of the Construction Playbook will boost productivity.
  • Hear first-hand from clients, contractors and manufacturers as they share the practical challenges and opportunities that they experienced following the publication of the Playbook.
  • Discover how you can put the Playbook into practice to build back greener.
  • Earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend

  • Contracting authorities
  • Government
  • Procurement spcialists
  • Consultants
  • Clients
  • Contractors
  • Manufacturers
  • Suppliers including the supply chain
  • Academics

Programme

14.00  Welcome and Introduction – Dr David Hancock, Chair, CIRIA Executive Board and Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, Cabinet Office

14:05  Dr David Hancock, Chair, CIRIA Executive Board and Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, Cabinet Office

14:20  A client’s view: facilitating the Playbook – Lorraine Butler, Delivery Director – Digital by Default, National Highways

14:35  A contractor’s view: delivering the Playbook  – Senior representative, Costain (invited)

14:50  The manufacturers’ view: adopting the Playbook – Graeme Brady, Engineering Manager, NG Bailey;

Graeme Jones, Managing Director, C-Probe

15:10  Interactive discussion and Q&A – Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

15:30 Closing remarks

Fees

CIRIA and Buildoffsite Members – Free to attend and will receive an invitation via email. If you’re a member and haven’t received your invitation please contact sara.kotsani@buildoffsite.com

Non-Members: £35 + VAT

Please sign in or create an account to register online for this event. If you are experiencing issues registering online, please complete and return the booking form to James Nguyen.

Joining instructions will be sent 10 days before the event. The link to attend the webinar is strictly personal and should not be shared.

 

Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery Supplier Workshop

07 December 2021

As part of the development of our new guidance, Offsite Construction: Concept Design & Delivery, we will be hosting an interactive workshop for all supply chain members to input their views, knowledge and experiences of offsite projects.

Project Background

The Government’s Industrial Strategy – Construction Sector deal sees the four goals of Construction 2025 being met by focusing on three strategic areas: digital techniques, offsite manufacturing and whole life asset performance. Offsite construction is further supported by the Government’s commitment to offsite construction for capital build projects from 2019 (Treasury budget document November 2017) and in the policies presented in the Construction Playbook (December 2020).

It is proposed that a good practice guide is produced to support initial concept planning for offsite construction, which could then be developed into a scheme design enabling clients to be better informed to specify and procure offsite on their projects. The guide will show what is possible when an offsite solution is sought and will enable the presumption in favour of offsite construction to be fully explored.

This new guide is primarily aimed at clients and those procuring new buildings & infrastructure to be better informed on the offsite options available in the sector and to make an initial assessment of the optimum use of offsite & MMC. It is anticipated it will also be used by planners and consultants, whilst also benefitting suppliers of products and services by giving them an opportunity to showcase offsite capability and identify where more standardised products could be developed. Where a client has a pipeline of work with similar requirements over an extended time frame they should consider developing a procurement strategy that involves the identification of product families and standardised product portfolios.

CIRIA & Buildoffsite’s guide will be complementary to other industry initiatives and outputs. The construction sector appears to be at a tipping point with respect to wider use of MMC and in particular, offsite solutions. To ensure that clients and suppliers realise the potential benefits, guidance is required to exploit lessons learnt by prior projects and to highlight areas where innovation is happening.

The project brief can be viewed here.

Who should attend?

  • Architects
  • Contractors
  • Manufacturers
  • Suppliers
  • Quantity Surveyors
  • Cost Consultants

Further details will follow in due course, but to register your interest please click here.

The future of construction – delivering on COP26 outcomes

01 December 2021 , CIRIA Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane London, EC1A 9PN

Join in person for CIRIA’s annual lecture and networking reception to round off our 60th anniversary celebrations. Influential speakers will share key outcomes from COP26 and how the construction and built environment sector needs to respond.

Background

The UK is hosting the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November. Gain insight into the outcomes from COP26 including the construction workshop exploring:

• the global challenges of delivering net zero in construction and the built environment
• the combined power of industry and Government in delivering net zero
• how the future of the construction sector will pivot to meet the challenge

CIRIA’s new Executive Chairman, Dr David Hancock, will share his views on the construction industry, the government’s agenda, CIRIA’s achievements over the past 60 years and how it is positioning itself for the future. David will discuss how the industry needs to evolve referencing the following Government initiatives which he is actively supporting:

• Climate change action
• Building safety
• Digital transformation
• Modern methods of construction (MMC)

Programme

17:30 Registration and networking
18:00 Welcome and introduction
Dirk Vennix, Chief Executive, CIRIA
18:05 The future of construction: key outcomes from COP26
Lee Rowley MP, Construction Minister, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
18:30 The future of construction: new ways of working Dr David Hancock, Chair, CIRIA Executive Board and
Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority, Cabinet Office
18:55 Closing remarks
19:00 Networking drinks

When

Wednesday 1 December 2021
17:30 – 20:00

Where

CIRIA
Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane
London, EC1A 9PN

Fees

This member-exclusive event is *free to attend for all CIRIA members and our specialist interest groups including:

• Buildoffsite

• Driving Net Zero Carbon Community of Practice

• Managing Construction Risk Community of Practice

• LACL

• BRMF

*Places are limited: a maximum of three registrations per company will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Booking

Please register here – if you encounter any issues with your registration please contact sara.kotsani@buildoffsite.com
Joining instructions will be sent 10 days before the event.

Terms and Conditions

Click here for details of our terms and conditions that will apply.
Personal data is gathered in accordance with CIRIA’s privacy policy.

Further information

For further information on CIRIA membership and other services, please contact:
Email: enquiries@ciria.org
Web: www.ciria.org

Using Offsite to Deliver Town Regeneration

23 November 2021 , Online Webinar

10.30am-11.30am

Buildoffsite has sought to promote, support and increase the adoption of offsite & pre-manufactured solutions for the built environment. We invite you to join this event to learn more about Buildoffsite, how to engage with Buildoffsite, as well as:

  • Understand how Offsite can help delivery assurances for quality asset delivery, faster and more efficient Town Regeneration;
  • comply with HM Treasury’s The Construction Playbook, which targets 25% construction projects to be delivered using MMC, Carbon Net Zero Targets and;
  • ensuring minimal disruption through MMC/offsite methodology.

The event will include a 30 minute presentation, followed by a Q+A session.

Register here

R&D in the offsite sector – Access2Funding

02 November 2021

Propel your business into the future

10am-11am

The offsite industry offers many opportunities to innovate, addressing numerous challenges in projects daily.  Your business needs to remain agile & adapt to achieve a solution. So many qualifying projects are ignored as day-to-day business when these could be an R&D tax credits claim.

To benefit from R&D tax incentives, you must:

  • Be a limited company in the UK that is subject to Corporation Tax.
  • Have carried out qualifying research and development activities.
  • Have spent money [eg staffing costs, subcontracted R&D, externally providing workers] on these projects;

To find out more about R&D in the offsite sector – and to see if you could be eligible; complete this short survey for your business.

 

Register here

Modern Methods of Construction: Time to Invest?

29 September 2021

Thank you for joining us at this joint webinar alongside the Investment Property Forum, where we heard from a range of speakers talking about the offsite sector, BOPAS, the Government perspective and how and why investment funds should consider investing in offsite manufacturers.

Presentations from the day can be found here.

Launch: RIBA Plan of Work DfMA Overlay

15 September 2021

15th September, 10.00-12.15, zoom webinar

This 2-hour virtual conference will launch the new Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work. By attending you’ll understand what are the key tasks that architects and construction professionals need to do through the construction project process.

Register here

What is the conference about?

This conference will launch the new DfMA Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work. The overlay helps architects and construction professionals understand what they need to do differently in each of the 8 stages of the project lifecycle if they are to successfully adopt Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and a Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) approach.

The DfMA Overlay is accompanied by a DfMA report that sets out the latest in thinking on MMC and DfMA for architects and construction professionals. The Overlay organises the core tasks that the profession needs to do differently through the process of briefing, designing, constructing and operating building projects if we are to effectively accelerate the uptake of MMC in line with current industry thinking and client requirements.

What will we cover?

You will be able to listen to and participate in debates with expert speakers and contributors to the overlay on key topics that have arisen during its production. There will also be a chance to hear about recent examples of best practice in DfMA.

Speakers from Akerlof, Bryden Wood, Cast, Hawkins/Brown, HTA, Kier, L&Q, Ministry of Housing and Communities, Modularise, Stride Treglowan and UK Research & Innovation, include:

  • Mark Farmer, Cast
  • Jamie Johnston, Bryden Wood
  • Nigel Ostime, Hawkins/Brown
  • Connie Longmate, MHCLG

What will I achieve?

By the end of this conference, you should be able to:

  • Identify the key client drivers for using DfMA
  • Appreciate why DfMA is an essential topic for architects
  • Understand the core tasks that are different when adopting a DfMA processes
  • Learn about the latest thinking in DfMA and how will impact the profession

What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?

This session is suitable for anyone who has an interest in DfMA, MMC and the use of offsite construction techniques.

Register here

BOPAS Accredited Manufacturer Forum and Frameclad site visit

14 September 2021

Supported by:

Date – 14th September 2021

Timings – 10.30 – 15.00

Location – The Copthorne Hotel, Waterfront Level Street, Brierley Hill, Dudley, DY5 1UR

As a BOPAS client, we are delighted to invite you to the first BOPAS Forum to update you with our plans and to hear your views.

*Please note this invitation is only for organisations that are BOPAS accredited.

Context:

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme was launched in 2013 to serve the interests of the Offsite industry and support its access to the mortgage market. Since the launch, the scheme has evolved with the sector being regularly updated to counter negative trends and problem areas as they arose. As the offsite sector matures and moves progressively towards digitisation and automation, there is a recognition that BOPAS should both evaluate and acknowledge the extent to which organisations have developed beyond the baseline accreditation.

The Forum will provide an opportunity to both present proposals to develop BOPAS to support and embrace digitisation and automation, but most importantly it will be an opportunity for the accredited offsite sector to provide feedback on the current scheme and its development.

Within the last year BLP, a BOPAS partner, has withdrawn from the warranty provision and has recently re-entered the market and the forum will provide an opportunity to gain an insight into BLP’s strategy and service portfolio. We are delighted to announce that the Forum will conclude with a site visit to the Frameclad factory. This will provide an insight into the manufacturing process of light gauge steel frame offsite panel systems and we hope that many of you will take advantage of the opportunity to visit the plant.

Programme:

10.30 – 11.00 Registration and networking

11.00 – 11.05 Welcome and Introduction

11.05 – 11.20 Overview of the MMC market and future view – Mark Farmer, CEO Cast Consultancy and MMC Champion

11.20 – 11.30 BLP Strategy and service portfolio – Jeff Maxted, Director BLP

11.30 – 12.00 Proposed development of BOPAS – Bernie Woods, Schemes Lead Lloyd’s Register

12.00 – 13.00 Feedback and discussion – Chaired by – Bernie Woods/ Jeff Maxted

13.00 – 13.30 Lunch/ continued discussion/networking

13.30 – 13.45 BOPAS accreditation award ceremony

13.45 – 14.00 Travel to Frameclad factory

14.00 – 15.00 Tour of Frameclad

 

Register here

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 10

08 September 2021

10am-3pm

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

·    Draft proposal DfMA Guide Finalisation

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

·    Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx

·    The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES

·    There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02

·    It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details.

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 9

28 July 2021

10am-3pm

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

·    Draft proposal DfMA Guide Finalisation

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

·    Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx

·    The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES

·    There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02

·    It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details.

Buildoffsite Client Group Meeting

23 July 2021

11AM – 12PM

A chance to hear updates from our chair, Doug Waters, including;

  • Updates on the proposed activity road map
  • Next Steps
  • Related activity from the sector
  • Support required

If you are a client procuring or delivering offsite/MMC and would like to find out more and/or attend please e-mail Doug Waters

NB: This meeting will take place on MS Teams

Construction Playbook: an Offsite Response

20 July 2021

1pm-2pm

This is a virtual training session – please register for free below and you will receive further instructions on how to join.

The Construction Playbook, published at the end of 2020, outlines how most public sector construction procurement is going to be carried out in the coming years. It contains a lot of guidance, with focus upon safety, MMC, and whole life cost and carbon optimisation. It also stresses the needs for healthy competition and resilience in supplier organisations.

Buildoffsite produced a response to the Playbook, and in this lunchtime webinar Nigel Fraser will discuss how offsite suppliers can benefit from the Playbook whilst also challenging the sector to evolve to make the most of the opportunities for both suppliers and clients.

By attending this webinar you will:

  • Learn how the policies set out in the Playbook should generate more opportunities for offsite & MMC
  • Understand how your organisation and the wider offsite sector can respond to the challenges set out in the Playbook
  • Think about what changes you may need to implement in your organisation to maximise the opportunities the Playbook presents

This webinar is aimed at anyone working in the Offsite sector who wants to understand what the Construction Playbook means for them.

Register here

 

Buildoffsite Member’s Meeting

08 July 2021

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & Introductions – Joe Dyde, Buildoffsite

10:05 Challenges & barriers to adoption & implementation of offsite and MMC report 2021 – Fareita Udoh, Buildoffsite

10.15 What are the opportunities for MMC delivery? – Paul McGivern, Homes England

10:30 Thermal Insulated Modular System– James Watson, Uniblock

10:40 Buildoffsite Client & Working Group Update – Doug Waters, Buildoffsite

10:55 NHS New Hospitals Programme (NHP): Opportunity to engage – Vanessa Bold, NHS

11:10 Using infratech to ensure resilience to new structures – Graeme Jones, C-Probe

11:25 BSI and Standards Development Clare Price, BSI

11:50 Summary & Close – Joe Dyde, Buildoffsite

MMC – Overcoming the Barriers to Greater Adoption

07 July 2021

10:00 – 11:00

Modern methods of construction (MMCs) have the potential to revolutionise house building and reaching the target of 300,000 homes per year. They bring high-quality design, innovative building methods and, perhaps most significantly, have significant sustainability benefits.

But while a good start has been made, the uptake in MMC use in housebuilding has not been as substantial as many would have liked.

Joined by an expert panel, including the Government’s MMC Champion and representatives of the MMC and development sector, we will explore how the government, housebuilding sector and MMC community can work together better to overcome the barriers to greater adoption, and what more is needed from Government to get the MMC revolution going?

Panel:

  • Mark Farmer (Founding Director & CEO, Cast)
  • Keith Blanshard (Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite)
  • Jonathan Layzell (Executive Director – Development, Stonewater)
  • Dave Sheridan (Executive Chairman, Ilke Homes)
  • Chair: Sarah Wardle (Associate Director, BECG)

Register here

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 8

23 June 2021

10am-3pm

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

·    Draft proposal DfMA Guide Finalisation

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

·    Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx

·    The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES

·    There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02

·    It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details.

Tackling the retrofit challenge through Smart Construction

22 June 2021

14:15-16:30

To meet our challenging carbon targets we must accelerate the speed that we are tackling the energy efficiency of the 27 million homes that need to be retrofitted by 2045. Smart Construction provides new materials, new technologies and new processes that can all help.

Whether you are housing association or residential social landlord with significant housing stock to retrofit, or a contractor or a product supplier in need of innovative solutions to help you tackle the residential retrofit challenge, this conference staged by the Smart Construction Network will provide a valuable insight into the research and development work that the network’s 15 Centres of Excellence are undertaking to bring new technologies, materials and processes to market.

By attending this conference you will:

  • Learn why residential retrofitting is so important to our net zero ambitions.
  • Understand the key retrofitting tasks we need to focus on to achieve EPC A housing stock.
  • Discover how digital technologies can help.
  • Hear how new technologies and products are currently being tested across the UK.
  • Discover some of the innovative business models that are being trialled to deliver retrofit at scale.

Register here

Conference programme:

14:15: Introduction and scene setting – Ian Heptonstall (10 mins)

14:25: Keynote address

The challenge – why residential retrofitting is so important to our net zero ambitions (20 mins) William Swan, Director of Energy House Laboratories – Salford University

  • The size of the challenge.
  • The key tasks to successfully retrofit to EPC A.
  • The lessons learnt from pilot projects and research.
  • The demand and supply side challenges.

14:45: Q&A panel 1: What are we learning from the research and pilot projects (30 mins)

  1. Oxford Brookes – Rajat Gupta
  2. SHAP – Rosemary Coyne
  3. University of Salford – Bill Swan
  4. Active Building Centre – Joe Atkinson

10 min break

15:25: Q&A Panel 2: New Materials, Digital controls and improved processes. (30 mins)

  1. University of Huddersfield – Patricia Tzortzopoulos
  2. National Composites Centre – Neil Appleton
  3. Mitsubishi – Martin Fahey or Max Halliwell
  4. STBA – Peter Draper

15:55: Q&A Panel 3: Business models for delivering retrofit at scale. (30 mins)

  1. University of Cambridge – Jennifer Schooling
  2. Retrofit Works – Russell Smith
  3. Energiesprong – Emily Barham
  4. Wates – Ben Williams

16:25: Summary (5 mins)

16:30: Close

Transport & Infrastructure Sector Working Group Meeting

17 June 2021

10:00 – 11:30

Join our inaugural Transport & Infrastructure Sector Working Group Meeting to hear the outputs from our recent Client Group Meeting, and begin to develop a work plan.

Agenda

Welcome & Introductions

  • Client Group Outputs/Overview
  • Round the table discussion – what are the supply chain seeing as opportunities and/or frustrations with this sector?
  • Introduction to Terms of Reference
  • Agree on next steps/begin to develop a work plan

The meeting will take place on Teams.

Register here

CIRIA Annual Debate – Construction’s Race to Net-Zero: Fact or Fiction?

09 June 2021

Wednesday 9th June, 14:00 – 16:00

Join CIRIA’s Annual Debate to hear leading experts discuss how construction is rising to the challenge of net-zero carbon.

Background
The UK will host the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November when 195 nations are expected to report back on The Paris Agreement which required signatories to commit to limiting global warming to below 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels.

Not only are nations accountable, but so are industry leaders. Construction accounts for 30% of carbon emissions in the UK. How will the sector play its part and reduce its emissions by 68% below 1990 levels in the next decade to meet the UK’s ambitious new climate target?

In this Annual Debate, leading industry experts will discuss how the built environment sector is rising to the challenge and how cities across the UK are seizing opportunities to achieve net-zero.

Why attend
• Hear how policy is driving and effecting change
• Debate whether the construction industry needs to undertake more extreme
measures to reduce emissions
• Discover how the construction ecosystem is collaborating to reduce its
carbon footprint
• Explore whether the industry will be able to achieve net-zero carbon and
business goals
• Earn valuable CPD

Who should attend
• Sustainability, environmental and carbon professionals
• Research and development specialists
• Strategy and innovation specialists
• Consultants
• Clients
• Contractors
• Academics
• Government and city officials
• Product suppliers and manufacturers

Fees
CIRIA members Free to attend
Non-members & Buildoffsite members £35 + VAT

Booking

Please sign in or create an account to register online for this event.

If you are experiencing issues registering online, please complete and return the booking form to Sarah Macpherson.

Alternatively please contact us on 020 7549 3300 or email enquiries@ciria.org.

Joining instructions will be sent 10 days before the event. The link to attend the webinar is strictly personal and should not be shared.

Terms and Conditions
Click here for details of our terms and conditions that will apply.
Personal data is gathered in accordance with CIRIA’s privacy policy.

Utilities Sector Working Group Meeting

08 June 2021

11:30 – 12:30

Join our inaugural Utilities Sector Working Group Meeting to hear the outputs from our recent Client Group Meeting, and begin to develop a work plan.

Further details and agenda to follow.

The meeting will take place on Teams.

Register here

Client Group Meeting

27 May 2021

11am-1pm

Our Client Group outlines challenges to the sector and drives a proactive and productive conversation to enable improved understanding and address barriers, working towards developing the knowledge and tools necessary for the evolution of the ‘intelligent client’. The Client Group also accepts the challenges presented by the sector working groups in bridging understanding, addressing knowledge gaps, and finding ways to meet the needs of both client and supplier.

With representation from across transport, utilities, commercial, Government and social infrastructure, the Client Group seeks to promote and enable:

  • Understand and develop the benefits of Offsite construction for Client organisations
  • 2-Way Collaboration with other Buildoffsite members to understand:
  • Sharing and collaborating with the Sector Working Groups
  • Innovations and new techniques, share lessons learned and case studies
  • Aid the continued growth of offsite and increase its appeal to Client organisations
  • Support the UK Construction 2025 targets
  • Align and support the Government’s Construction Playbook (2020)

If you are interested in finding out more about this group, or are a Client that would like attend, please email Doug Waters.

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 7

25 May 2021

10am-3pm

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

·    Draft proposal DfMA Guide Finalisation

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

·    Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx

·    The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES

·    There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02

·    It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details. 

Net Zero Carbon Homes – Does offsite construction provide a solution?

25 May 2021

Attending this conference will help you to better understand how offsite construction can help society meet the challenge of Net Zero Carbon homes. If we take the opportunity to design energy and resource efficiency into the production of offsite homes and then manufacture and assemble them to higher standards, we have the potential to build homes at scale with minimal whole-life carbon impacts and contribute to the challenge of retrofit.

Are you a contractor or supplier looking for innovative solutions? Drawing on experience from the UK and French markets, this conference will provide valuable insight into new offsite technologies, materials, and processes for the delivery of low-carbon housing and retrofit. Live English / French translation will be provided through our virtual conference language channels.

By attending this conference, you will:

  • Understand what contributes most carbon through the process of manufacture, construction, use and end of life of a residential unit.
  • Learn about different kinds of low carbon offsite construction materials and systems from industry leaders.
  • Appreciate how we can accelerate the uptake of offsite solutions in the residential market.
  • Hear how design and procurement functions can influence reduced carbon and increased use of offsite.
  • Help foster collaboration across borders and between the construction stages.

Buildoffsite will be presenting at this event and attendance is free, to book your place please click on the link below.

Register here

How and why is tech driving the growth of MMC?

20 May 2021

The rise of digitalisation and new innovations in construction technology, such as modern methods of construction and offsite delivery methods are disrupting the sector and creating a new paradigm for the industry.

How are these approaches helping to build more productively/profitably, to higher standards and sustainably and what are the challenges?

Panellists include:

Jaimie Johnston, Bryden Wood
Felipe Manzatucci, Skanska
Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite
Steve Cooper, Oracle Construction and Engineering

Buildoffsite will be presenting at this event and attendance is free, to book your place please click on the link below.

Register here

CIH Offsite Logistics Workshop

11 May 2021

                                                                                 

Thank you to those who participated in this workshop and for your input in the designing and implementation of an efficient offsite construction logistics framework that actively contributes to the reduction of whole-life costs, delivery time as well as greenhouse gas emissions and health and safety hazards.

Some very good insights and feedback was gathered yesterday which allow Construction Innovation Hub’s team to consolidate the outcomes of the breakout rooms, and cross reference with their main findings, with the aim of narrowing down the area of research as part of next steps.

Presentations can be found below:

Main room

Breakout room 1

Breakour room 2

Breakout room 3

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 6

21 April 2021

10am-3pm

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

·    Draft proposal DfMA Guide Finalisation

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

·    Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx

·    The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES

·    There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02

·    It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details. 

Buildoffsite Member Meeting – Collaborating for Impact

08 April 2021

Our first member meeting of 2021 was part of the formal launch of the Buildoffsite Manifesto. The manifesto sets out the key pledges that Buildoffsite will deliver to support members, and the wider offsite industry to enable greater project delivery and continue to break down the barriers facing the sector. To deliver on these pledges, working with the membership, we also introduced our new working group structure and our events calendar for the coming months to ensure our network can collaborate for impact.

We then heard from the Buildoffsite team and members on recent & upcoming activity and projects being delivered.

To access presentations from the day please click here.

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 5

16 March 2021

10am-11am

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

  • Draft proposal DfMA Guide

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

  • Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx
  • The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES
  • There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02
  • It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details. 

The new age of construction: technology as an enabler – CIRIA virtual conference

10 March 2021

Join CIRIA for this virtual conference where a stellar line-up of speakers will share insight and knowledge on how advancements in technology, tools and thinking are streamlining processes, enhancing existing practice and boosting productivity.

Delegates will also have the opportunity to discuss what changes the industry needs to make, and what technology and innovations it should adopt and develop to modernise the ecosystem.

Sponsored by Autodesk and BAM Nuttall, this conference promises to be a lively event so be sure to book your place.

Why attend

  • understand the trends and policy impacting the construction industry
  • learn how technology and processes are reshaping the sector
  • be inspired by case studies demonstrating how various technologies and approaches deliver better value and support whole-life performance
  • debate what technology and innovations industry should focus on next
  • discover relevant CIRIA guidance aimed at driving digital transformation
  • earn valuable CPD.

Who should attend

  • Clients, Consultants, Contractors, Civil engineers, Digital experts, Property managers, Infrastructure asset managers and Building and facilities managers

Speakers include:

  • Sam Stacey, Challenge Director – Transforming Construction, Innovate UK
  • Mark Greatorex-Davies, Geotechnical Engineer, Royal HaskoningDHV
  • Dr Graham Webb, Principal Engineer, WSP
  • Leo McKibbins, Technical Director and Chris Power, Engineering Geologist, Mott MacDonald
  • Dave Cousins CEng MICE, Principal Engineer, James Fisher Testing Services
  • Amrit Ghose, National Framework Director, Waterman Group
  • Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, University of Cambridge
  • Stephen Boyle, Strategic Programme Manager, Zero Waste Scotland
  • Lara Young, Group Carbon Manager, Costain
  • Paul Wilkinson, Technology Group Chair, UK BIM Alliance: Managing Director, PWcom Ltd and Editor, ExtranetEvolution.com
  • Philip Proctor, Head of Research, Highways England
  • Ivor Barbrook, Head of Digital Construction, BAM Nuttall
  • Marek Suchocki, EMEA Sales Development Executive, Autodesk

When

10 March 2021

9.30 – 16.45

Fees

£65 + VAT for CIRIA members

£65+ VAT Buildoffsite members

£100+VAT UK BIM Alliance members

£130 +VAT for Non members

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 4

24 February 2021

10am-11am

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

  • Non-Walk-in Kiosk Solution
  • Walk-in Kiosk Solution

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

  • Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx
  • The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES
  • There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02
  • It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details.

Chemical Dosing Offsite & WIMES 8.02 – Webinar 3

27 January 2021

10am-11am

11.15 to 12.30 Lunch Break

13.15 to 15.00 close

  • Integrally bunded tank solution
  • Double skinned tank solution

BIM4Water Product Data Templates (PDTs) for Chemical Dosing Equipment

  • Water industry PDTs are generated and managed by the BIM4Water Standard Libraries Group (SLG) and hosted on the British Water website https://www.britishwater.co.uk/bim-pdts.aspx
  • The Pump Centre (WIMES) and the BIM4Water SLG have been working together since 2016 to generate PDTs for all new and updated WIMES
  • There is therefore the intention to generate PDTs for selected dosing equipment components in parallel with the review of WMES 8.02
  • It is hoped that the Pump Centre (WIMES), the BIM4Water SLG and chemical dosing system suppliers can work together to agree the format and content of these PDTs

Audience: Suppliers, manufacturers and Water Company Asset Managers & Data Architects

Register your interest here and Fareita Udoh will be in touch with details. 

 

Buildoffsite MMC Conference #BuildingForImpact

26 January 2021

10.30am-2.30pm

Join us for our inaugural virtual conference focused on the offsite sector and the opportunities for Modern Methods of Construction. With awareness of MMC continuing to grow, and as the sector navigates the current pandemic, this conference will focus on the benefits that MMC brings to projects across multiple sectors.

Background

Buildoffsite’s inaugural virtual conference brings together emerging policy, strategy and practical approaches to meeting the challenges faced by Government, industry and supply chain. Focusing on MMC and offsite’s increasingly leading role in delivering vital infrastructure, housing and transport projects, the #buildingforimpact programme offers insight into the Client strategy, alongside opportunities to hear about the new ways industry is working to address old challenges.

BEIS will review The Construction Playbook, with insight into the focus on getting projects right from the start and how key policy changes will enable offsite. A briefing on the recently launched Smart Construction Network will outline how it enables easy engagement with experts in MMC for a range of businesses across industry. Systems engineering methodology will be shared to enable cross-industry improvements in the design and construction process. Additionally, a true showcase on how MMC is delivering permanent, positive transformation across sectors, and how we can steal the march on delivering Net Zero, and potentially negative, carbon targets. And last but most definitely not least, an opportunity to be among the first to hear the outcomes of a recent industry wide survey on offsite and the challenges and barriers to increased adoption.

Agenda

10:30 Welcome & Introduction to the mornings session

MMC at the centre of policy and strategy – planning for impact

Professor Tim Broyd, Head of Industry Foresight – Buildoffsite & Director of Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, UCL

10:35 Keynote: #BuildingForImpact & MMC’s role 

Sam Stacey, Challenge Director – Transforming Construction, Innovate UK

10:55 Aggregating & standardising for MMC adoption

Fergus Harradence, Deputy Director for Construction – Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

  • MMC through The Construction Playbook lens

11:15 Tapping into the Smart Construction Network

Shelagh Grant, Chief Executive – The Housing Forum

  • Government, clients, major contractors, and their professional advisers are all working together to build a more modern, productive, and sustainable construction sector. To do this we all need to change, but to do that we need help. The Smart Construction Network supports the construction industry to make full use of digital technologies and industrialised manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, minimise whole life cost, improve sustainability and maximise user benefits.

11:25 Panel Session: MMC at the centre of policy and strategy – planning for impact

Chaired by Professor Tim Broyd, a chance to pose questions to this morning’s speakers and understand more about how Government driven initiatives and strategy are benefiting the sector.

11:50 Break

12:20 Welcome Back & Introduction to the afternoon’s session

How MMC can deliver Carbon Net Zero, innovative methodologies and practical approaches to meeting future challenges

Professor Tim Broyd, Head of Industry Foresight – Buildoffsite & Director of Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, UCL

12:25 Designing to Deliver

Nigel Fraser, Industry Advisor – Buildoffsite

Chris Millard, Technical Director, Europe Hub R&D Lead – Laing O’Rourke

Tomas Garcia, Head of Civil Structures – High Speed Two (HS2)

Vince Fenson, Managing Director – Polypipe Offsite

Professor Jennifer Whyte, Director of the Centre for Systems Engineering & Innovation – Imperial College London

By taking a different approach to designing for MMC which focusses upon clear definition, verification and integration; significant improvements could be made in the design and construction process. This session will look at this methodology, and where it has been implemented successfully, with a view to enabling cross-industry improvements. This session will include a Q&A with the panel, chaired by Nigel Fraser.

13:05 Decarbonisation through quality

Lara Young, Group Carbon Manager – Costain

Gemma Smith, Managing Director – Homes by Strata

  • The construction industry is the biggest contributor to the UK’s carbon emissions. Government and industry strategy states that within the next five years both construction-related emissions and project delivery times must be halved. How can changes in offsite delivery meet and exceed these ambitious targets across residential, infrastructure and commercial projects?

13:40 Challenges for MMC and setting the scene for wider adoption

David Button, Senior Account Director – BECG

  • Following an industry wide survey in late 2020, hear the outcomes of this which will highlight the main challenges and barriers to increased adoption of MMC and begin to look at how the sector can find solutions to these.

13:50 Panel Session: MMC at the centre of policy and strategy – planning for impact

Chaired by Fareita Udoh, Buildoffsite an opportunity to pose questions to this afternoon’s speakers, and understand how carbon and other challenges facing the sector are being overcome with the use of MMC.

14:20 Closing Summary & Insights from the Day

Professor Tim Broyd, Head of Industry Foresight – Buildoffsite & Director of Institute for Digital Innovation in the Built Environment, UCL

Fees
Buildoffsite members:  Register here for free
CIRIA members:  £65 + VAT – Click here for further details on how to book or register
Non-members:  £90 + VAT – Click here for further details on how to book or register

If you are a Buildoffsite member experiencing issues registering for this event online please contact us on sara.kotsani@buildoffsite.com. CIRIA members and non-members please contact 020 7549 3300 or email enquiries@ciria.org.

This event will be held on Zoom, joining instructions will be sent 10 days before the event.

This event is CPD accredited.

Read our latest blogs on this event:

#BuildingForImpact – Government Initiatives supporting MMC Growth

#BuildingForImpact

Smart Construction: The technologies, processes, and materials changing construction

21 January 2021

10am-12pm

Government, clients, major contractors, and their professional advisers are all working together to build a more modern, productive, and sustainable construction sector.

To do this we all need to change, but to do that we need help. The Smart Construction Network  supports the construction industry to make full use of digital technologies and industrialised manufacturing techniques to improve productivity, minimise whole life cost, improve sustainability and maximise user benefits.

By attending this online conference, you will:

  • Find out how new materials can revolutionise our buildings
  • Understand how new digital technologies are driving improved construction processes
  • Learn how changing the way we build will help tackle climate change
  • Discover how modern methods of construction are being used on sites across the UK
  • Hear how the Smart Construction Network can provide practical support to construction companies to accelerate change
  • Connect with our leading experts who can support you in up-skilling your business to gain the benefits of Smart Construction.

Speakers and panellists will be drawn from members of the Smart Construction Network including; the Universities of Cambridge, Huddersfield, Reading, Salford, and Oxford Brookes together with Innovate UK, National Composite Centre, The Manufacturing Technology Centre, Construction Scotland Innovation Centre, the Supply Chain School and Build Offsite.

If you have any questions please contact Imogen

Find out more and register here

How can we help develop and mentor designers in offsite construction?

14 January 2021

Buildoffsite is organising a series of webinars focusing on aspects of our latest report “Accelerating the Evolution of Design Management in Construction  – The COVID-19 effect” which was published in December.

The second of these will be held on the 14th January from 2pm to 3pm. It will take the form of several short panel member presentations followed by a Q&A session to respond to questions from the audience. The session will be introduced and facilitated by Nigel Fraser of Buildoffsite, the lead author of the report.

The theme of the second webinar will be “How can we help develop and mentor designers in offsite construction”?

We invite offsite supply chain members, designers and clients to participate in the session.

The panel will include 2 architects, from large and mid sized firms, a Buildoffsite Industry Advisor and Professor at Oxford Brookes University as well as a low carbon & sustainable products supplier which should provide a diverse range of views. This will primarily provide information client perspectives with an initial response from an offsite supplier to get the ball rolling.

The panel members will be:

  • David Miller – David Miller Architects
  • Nick Hacking – Sheppard Robson
  • Prof. Nick Whitehouse MBE – Oxford Brookes University
  • Graeme Jones – MD, C-Probe Group

This should be a good opportunity to help the sector respond to the needs of designers and to learn from each other.

We look forward to your contribution to the discussion.

An additional session is being arranged as part of the Buildoffsite MMC Conference on the 26th of January. That will involve a discussion around the use of Systems Engineering methods, as suggested in the report.

Register here

How are we going to give designers the products and information they need?

16 December 2020

16th December

10am-11am

Buildoffsite is organising a series of webinars focusing on aspects of our latest report “Accelerating the Evolution of Design Management in Construction  – The COVID-19 effect” which has been published this week.

The first of these will be held on the 16th of December from 10:00 to 11:00. It will take the form of several short panel member (Powerpoint) presentations of 7 minutes each followed by a Q&A session to respond to questions from the audience. The session will be introduced and facilitated by Nigel Fraser of Buildoffsite, the lead author of the report.

We invite offsite supply chain members, designers and clients to participate in the session.

The panel will include 2 architects, from large and mid sized firms, a BIM manager from a multi-disciplinary engineering design company and a major supplier of cladding systems, which should provide a diverse range of views. This will primarily provide information client perspectives with an initial response from an offsite supplier to get the ball rolling.

The panel members will be:

Nick Hacking, Sheppard Robson
David Miller, David Miller Architects
Peter Townsend, WSP
David Wallach, Euroclad

This should be a good opportunity to help the sector respond to the needs of designers and to learn from each other.

We look forward to your contribution to the discussion.

Register here

WIMES 8.02 review – supply chain feedback; showcase of current designs and feedback on proposed amendments to WIMES 8.02.

14 December 2020

Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm

Closing: 2pm -3.30pm

Who should attend: Representatives of water companies responsible for specifying chemical dosing equipment and representatives of companies with an established track-record of supplying chemical dosing equipment to the water industry, built off-site using MMC/DfMa.

Agenda: To provide dosing equipment suppliers with an opportunity to

a) showcase their current designs and

b) discuss the proposed amendments to WIMES 8.02 identified during Webinar 1.

Outcome: A list of proposed amendments to WIMES 8.02, endorsed by both the water companies and their supply chain, which can be incorporated into a draft version of the specification for future discussion/review.

DfMA Guide for Chemical Dosing Equipment for the Water Industry and Supply Chain

The WIMES 8.02 review will be used to assist in the preparation of a ‘DfMA Guide for Chemical Dosing Equipment for the Water Industry and Supply Chain’, published jointly by the Pump Centre/Arcadis and Buildoffsite.

Register here

Offsite Manufacture Conference & Exhibition

02 December 2020

Transforming the Industry – Discovering the Opportunities for Offsite Manufacturing and Delivery…

Buildoffsite have been invited to partner & will be exhibiting at the Offsite Manufacture Exhibition & Conference bringing together leaders from the property, development, infrastructure and construction industries to drive forward the modular and offsite manufacturing agenda.

The House of Lords report on ‘Off-Site Manufacturing For Construction: Building for Change’ highlights the importance to Government and the wider UK growth strategy of offsite manufacturing and this event will provide a platform to speak to representatives from across the development and construction industries on the key challenges and opportunities, with some of the most influential businesses and institutions in the sector in attendance.

Our members are entitled to 10% discount on purchasing delegate tickets & partner packages by using code Buildoffsite10

This event will now be held online.

The Offsite Show Launch Webinar

01 December 2020

The new Offsite Show will be organised in partnership with Buildoffsite and will be co-located with UK Construction Week, 4 dedicated UK Construction Week Summits and self & custom build show Grand Designs Live. It will create the most important sector meeting since the pandemic began with access to over 38,000 visitors; which will not only include core offsite companies and end users, but new potential contacts in all fields of construction.

At this free webinar, the organisers will showcase the plans of the new show.

Presenters:

Paul Shelley and Eddie Milton, Sales Director, Offsite Show

Joe Dyde, Business Manager at Buildoffsite

Nathan Garnett, Event Director of UK Construction Week

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BOPAS Briefing

25 November 2020

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

This breakfast briefing will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building.

Agenda to follow

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Water Industry Mechanical and Electrical Specifications 8.02 Review [WIMES] 8.02 What changes are required to cater for chemical dosing equipment built offsite using MMC/DfMa during AMP 7?

03 November 2020

Time: 10.30am to 12.30pm

Closing: 2pm -3.30pm

Who should attend: Representatives of water companies responsible for specifying chemical dosing equipment.

Agenda: Discuss the changes to WIMES 8.02 needed to cater for chemical dosing equipment built off-site using MMC/DfMa during AMP 7. The focus will be on Phosphate removal, alkalinity control and septicity control schemes for wastewater treatment and plumbosolvency reduction schemes for water treatment

Outcome: A list of proposed amendments to WIMES 8.02, which will be further discussed/refined with dosing equipment suppliers in Webinar 2.

If you’re interested in joining please email Fareita Udoh.

COVID-19 Focus for Clients & Cost Consultants

28 October 2020

10am-10.45am

In this webinar we shall consider aspects of demand and how the offsite sector may respond to this:

  • What types of projects are coming to market?
  • What types of spaces are required?
  • How quickly are they needed?
  • How much pressure is there on reducing costs right now?

Infrastructure, homes and work environments will be discussed.  Ways in which the offsite sector may respond to this will be debated in the context of the Restart, Reset & Reinvent timeframes.

Part of Buildoffsite’s series of 4 webinars to follow through on its response to the CLC’s roadmap for recovery from the current pandemic. These will be focused upon different stakeholders’ perspectives, but we welcome all members and supporters to join in. They will take the form of a panel discussion followed by an open Q&A session. Our objective is to add substance to how the offsite sector may help the construction sector recover and thrive in the post-COVID-19 world. Expect the discussions to be challenging and thought-provoking, yet constructive for businesses taking part.

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BOPAS Briefing

23 October 2020

10am-11.30am

Join Buildoffsite, BLP & Lloyd’s Register and find out more about the latest news and updates on BOPAS.

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

This breakfast briefing will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building.

Agenda will include:

  •  An intro to why BOPAS was created
  • Drivers and challenges
  • How BOPAS is responding
  • Growth in the sector
  • Brief overview of the LR and BLP processes
  • New offerings such as BIM assessment, LCC, Embodied carbon
  • Examples of what the sector is producing
  • Virtual certificate presentation

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COVID-19 Focus for Project Managers & Contractors

21 October 2020

10am-10.45am

Project managers and contractors have immediate and costly challenges to resolve.

  • How can delays be recovered and can offsite help here?
  • How will the combined impact of Brexit and COVID-19 social distancing impact the workforce in 2021?
  • What do they need the offsite sector to deliver for them?
  • How can they help the offsite sector do what they need to be done?

Part of Buildoffsite’s series of 4 webinars to follow through on its response to the CLC’s roadmap for recovery from the current pandemic. These will be focused upon different stakeholders’ perspectives, but we welcome all members and supporters to join in. They will take the form of a panel discussion followed by an open Q&A session. Our objective is to add substance to how the offsite sector may help the construction sector recover and thrive in the post-COVID-19 world. Expect the discussions to be challenging and thought-provoking, yet constructive for businesses taking part.

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COVID-19 Focus for Architects & Engineers 

07 October 2020

10am-10.45am

Here we will look at what designers need from the offsite community in order to be able to exploit the benefits of offsite effectively whilst not onerously restricting the ability to design stimulating buildings that designers would be proud of. Similarly, we shall ask the question:

What can designers do to embrace more offsite construction? 

This will be considered in the context of the Restart, Reset & Reinvent timeframes.

Part of Buildoffsite’s series of 4 webinars to follow through on its response to the CLC’s roadmap for recovery from the current pandemic. These will be focused upon different stakeholders’ perspectives, but we welcome all members and supporters to join in. They will take the form of a panel discussion followed by an open Q&A session. Our objective is to add substance to how the offsite sector may help the construction sector recover and thrive in the post-COVID-19 world. Expect the discussions to be challenging and thought-provoking, yet constructive for businesses taking part.

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Digital Construction on a Shoestring

23 September 2020

10.30am – 11.30am

Join this session to understand the potential for improving your operations with low cost and off the shelf digital technologies such as sensors and cameras.

We will show how simple technologies can be combined to provide practical digital solutions to specific industry challenges, giving examples of successful pilot solutions developed for manufacturing businesses. The session will include videos of working demonstrators and industrial pilots and the workshop delivery team from Cambridge University’s Institute for Manufacturing will outline a simple building block approach to delivering practical digital solutions for small manufacturing companies.

The virtual workshop will help companies specify a low cost digital solution to help improve performance in a chosen priority area.

Companies taking part may choose to engage further with IfM to develop pilot solutions.

Why attend?

  • Build awareness of low cost digital solutions for manufacturing
  • Reflect on business priorities
  • Identify potential digital solutions to help address these priorities
  • Outline a priority digital solution for your individual business

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Follow up webinar: Designing out waste Adopting Offsite to become Carbon Neutral

01 September 2020

Following on from our first webinar in June Buildoffsite will be looking at how offsite over the years has always been geared towards becoming carbon neutral; and how design is crucial to delivering carbon neutral developments in infrastructure. 

Tim Broyd, Buildoffsite and Lara Young, Costain will be running this engaging webinar with real examples of design and delivery in the UK and worldwide.

Agenda will include the following items:

  • Design for reuse and recovery
  • Design for offsite construction
  • Design for material optimisation
  • Waste efficient procurement
  • Design for deconstruction and flexibility

The webinar will have two sessions with a detailed Q&A session at the end with Tim and Lara on the panel.

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Catalyst for change – collaborating for recovery

23 July 2020

Keith Waller, Programme Director for the Construction Innovation Hub, will discuss the role of the Hub in transforming the UK construction sector, and how through collaboration the sector will be able to deliver greater impact within the ‘new normal’.

Background

Sector recovery represents a critical opportunity to reset the direction of travel for construction. Instead of seeking a way back to business as usual, industry must strive towards new and better ways of doing things. This perspective is deep-seated for the Construction Innovation Hub, who have accelerated key areas of their industry transformation programme in recent weeks to support the sector’s move towards a more productive and resilient future.Programme Director of the Construction Innovation Hub, Keith Waller alongside Tim Broyd and Jamie Parr of Buildoffsite will share insights on the steps to a robust industry recovery and the opportunities for the offsite sector. Delegates will also have the opportunity to hear the Government perspective from the Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).As industry collaboration is more vital than ever, Keith will highlight how the Hub drives cross-sector dialogue with its network of key stakeholders and will outline the Hub’s range of innovative initiatives, across the four core themes of its programme: Value, Manufacturing, Assurance and Digital.

Why attend

  • Gain insight into the Hub and its role in sector recovery
  • Understand how you/your organisation can get involved with the Hub
  • Hear first-hand how Government will continue to support the recovery and reinvention of the construction sector
  • Learn how the increased adoption of offsite will speed the growth of projects within the sector
  • Understand how academia and research will assist the reinvention of the industry through innovation and collaboration
  • Identify opportunities for future collaborative activity
  • Participate in a Q&A session

Who should attend

Those working within all aspects of the construction sector including clients, designers, specifiers, contractors and manufacturers.

When

Thursday 23 July 2020
11:00 – 12:30

Programme

We recommend you join the webinar ten minutes before the scheduled start time.

11:00 Welcome and introduction – Professor Tim Broyd, Head of Industry Foresight at Buildoffsite, Professor of Built Environment Foresight, UCL

11:05 How BEIS will support the industry to reset, restart and reinvent – Stuart Young, Stakeholder Engagement/Management, Hackitt Review, Housing and Regeneration Construction Unit, Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

11:15 Construction Innovation Hub – collaborating for recovery – Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub

11:35 How the offsite sector can continue to deliver projects successfully in the ‘new normal’ – Jamie Parr, Projects and Research Lead, Buildoffsite

11:50 The role of academia and research to support the sector – Professor Tim Broyd

12:00 Interactive discussion and Q&A

12:20 Closing remarks

Members:

Please register via this link.

Non-Members:

Registration fee – £35 + VAT

Please sign in or create an account to register for this event.
Joining instructions will be sent ten days before the webinar.
The link to attend the webinar is strictly personal and should not be shared.

If you are experiencing issues registering for this event online please contact us on
020 7549 3300  or email enquiries@ciria.org.

Terms and Conditions Click here for details of our terms and conditions that will apply. This webinar is delivered in association with CIRIA. By registering for this webinar, you consent to your personal data being gathered and shared between CIRIA and Buildoffsite in accordance with CIRIA’s privacy policy.

 

Making overbuild economics work, panel discussion

16 July 2020

Part of the series of webinars on The Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide

10.30am – 11.30am

This Buildoffsite Transport Hub invites you to join its webinar on understanding of the cost drivers for overbuild projects. It will cover both theoretical and real examples and suggest how infrastructure overbuild could contribute to the post Covid-19 recovery.

Three short presentations will be followed by our customary Q&A session with the presenters.

  • Bill Price, WSP, will present on learning related to the creation of sites, including the the foundations, containment and deck aspects.
  • Bernard Williams, IFPI, will focus upon how development density makes an impact and the advantages of using offsite solutions, using the latest version of the Comparator tool.
  • Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite, will summarise the combined picture and consider how transport network owners, along with local and central government could make more sites economically viable.

WSP have demonstrated how 250,000 residential units could be developed in London alone. Join this webinar to get a feel for the costs involved in building over infrastructure and how development scale has an impact.

 

Construction Quality Planning Workshop by CIH

07 - 08 July 2020

*Please note this is a member only event*

CIH will deliver two workshops for Buildoffsite members, focused on the offsite sector that will provide a much deeper dive into CQP, its development and potential applications. More information can be found below:

What will the session offer?

The implementation of CQP would mark an industry-wide shift to a focus on quality assurance and defect prevention.  This interactive session will introduce the concept of Construction Quality Planning and provide you with an understanding of the CQP process, roles and responsibilities and approval times, ahead of the industry-wide publication.

Agenda

Please note these sessions are being delivered digitally. We have split the workshop in to two sessions and ask for attendance to both sessions. Joining instructions and further details will be sent by CIH.

Session One – 07 July

10am-12pm

  • Introductions & session objectives
  • Overview of the Construction Innovation Hub
  • Quality landscape
  • The 5 phases of Construction Quality Planning
  • Roles & responsibilities
  • Discussion, questions and feedback

Session 2 – 08 July

9am-12pm

  • The pillars of zero defects
  • Interactive workshop on applications of CQP
  • Feedback and Questions

For more information and The Construction Quality Planning Guide please click here.

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How to approach risk if new to the rail sector

02 July 2020

Part of the series of webinars on The Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide

10.30am – 11.30am

Building above operational infrastructure can be challenging in a number of ways. One is the obvious requirement to carry out projects safely. Another is to do so without impacting the rail operations. Risk management is central to achieving both of these requirements, as well as being a cornerstone of good project management.  In the context of the rail sector, the network and train operators have well-developed processes in place to address this.

Patrick Hayes of Meinhardt will lead us through this topic on the 2nd of July with a focus on overbuild considerations. Mark Lahiff, will provide some insight on how risk was managed on the Royal Mint Gardens project and the panel discussion will also include representatives from Network Rail & WSP.

It should be an invaluable introduction for companies interested in getting involved with projects in the rail sector.

 

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Can offsite be the route to carbon zero construction projects?

25 June 2020

The construction industry is the biggest contributor to the high level of emissions the UK emits. Buildoffsite looked at how the construction industry is affecting climate change, and how turning to offsite construction could be a step towards a more environmentally-friendly sector.

Government and industry strategy states that within the next five years both construction-related emissions and project delivery times must be halved. This is an ambitious target and Buildoffsite aims to demonstrate how changes in offsite delivery can meet and exceed set targets.

Lara Young, the Group Carbon Manager for Costain, led the first of the series on how offsite can help curb UK Carbon emissions across all construction projects; from simplistic changes to everyday practices. This provided insight into how alternative materials can have a much bigger impact on reducing emissions and meeting UK Government targets.

About Lara

As Costain’s Group carbon manager, Lara’s role encompasses challenging existing business models and processes to guarantee carbon management through to ensuing climate change mitigation and sustainability are designed and integrated into infrastructure at all lifecycle stages – from conception and design, to delivery, operation, and disposal. The biology graduate, who later went on to complete a MBA, joined Costain in 2015 having identified the infrastructure market as one in which she could make the biggest positive impact.

Lara is proud to work for a company that shares the same passion as her for reducing the impact on our planet and society that will shape the future infrastructure landscape. She shares the view that incorporating carbon management and focusing on reducing an asset’s carbon footprint across its whole lifecycle is crucial to tackling the climate change emergency.

Webinar Recording

Q&A transcript

Delivering an overbuild project with some innovation

18 June 2020

Part of the series of webinars on The Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide

4pm-5pm

Just doing things the way we always have is unlikely to maximise the opportunities that this sector offers. The offsite construction community tends to be quite innovative. This webinar provided both an overview of some of their recent innovations relevant to this context. It also included four short briefings on specific aspects that help:

  • Reduce the number of expensive infrastructure processions
  • Ensure that the structure has a very long, low maintenance service life
  • Offer enhanced fire protection
  • Manage accelerated project delivery

Presentations will included:

– Overcoming overbuild project management challenges – Daniel Richards, Mace

– Innovations for overbuild – overview,  Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite

– A new approach to project management, Ali Mafi, Lean Thinking

– Fire-proof SIPS, Joanne Booth, Lucideon

– Products for low carbon whole life resilience, Graeme Jones, C-Probe Group

This will be followed by a panel Q&A session for the audience to participate.

 

Video Recording

Q&A transcript

Methodology for Quantifying the Benefits of Offsite Construction

05 June 2020

Join us at this free launch Webinar for CIRIA’s new good practice guide C792 Methodology for quantifying the benefits of offsite construction produced in association with the Laing O’Rourke Centre, University of Cambridge. The guide serves as a call to action to transform the way the construction industry assesses project performance, opening the door to evidence-based comparisons and data driven decisions to establish best-practice in the industry.


Background

At present there is no industry standard methodology for assessing the benefits of off-site techniques against traditional construction practices. Most assessments are made through the client’s tender process on a case by case basis. This guide proposes a methodology to enable easy comparison between construction approaches, making it possible to keep consistent records across projects and identify all the possible benefits available.

Why attend

• Discover the key outcomes of this guide presented by the research team
• Explore how you/your company might make use of this framework
• Hear perspectives from experts including Professor Lord Robert Mair, University of Cambridge and Construction Innovation Hub’s Keith Waller
• Learn how the methodology is being applied in different sectors
• Participate in a Q&A session with academics and key industry players

Who should attend 

Those working within offsite construction including clients, designers, specifiers, contractors and others to quantify for themselves the benefits of off-site construction techniques when compared to typical construction approaches.

When

Friday 5th June 2020
11:00 – 12:30

We recommend you join the webinar ten minutes before the scheduled start time.

Agenda

11:00 Welcome and introduction – Matt Cooper, Associate, Business and Operations Consultant, ARUP

11:05 Welcome and brief overview of CIRIA – Kieran Tully, Associate Director, CIRIA

11:10 Welcome and brief overview of the Laing O’Rourke Centre – Professor Campbell Middleton, Professor of Construction Engineering and Director, Laing O’Rourke Centre at the University of Cambridge

11:15 Presentation of the guide ‘Methodology for Quantifying the Benefits of Offsite Construction’ – Tercia Jansen van Vuuren, Research Associate, Laing O’Rourke Centre at the University of Cambridge

11:45 Perspective and case study from the transport sector – Joanne Geddes, Lead Engineering Capability Manager, Network Rail, Secondee to the Department for Transport, Transport Research Innovation Board Working Group

12:10 Q&A with panel of speakers including:

Professor Lord Robert Mair, Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of Research, University of Cambridge

Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub

12:30 Closing remarks

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To get the most out of this webinar, we highly recommend you download the free publication via CIRIA’s website. Simply login/create an account, add the download into your basket, checkout as normal and you will receive a download link shortly after. 

Terms and Conditions
Please note this is a jointly organised event with the Laing O’Rourke Centre, University of Cambridge.

By registering for this event your details will be shared with the Laing O’Rourke Centre, University of Cambridge for the purpose of this event and any communications regarding the event.

Personal data is gathered in accordance with Buildoffsite’s privacy policy and the University of Cambridge’s privacy policy.
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Commercial approaches to infrastructure overbuild

04 June 2020

Part of the series of webinars on The Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide

The session started with a summary of the key commercial aspects to be considered when setting up an overbuild project and how some major projects have been approached. This was be presented by Patrick Hayes of Meinhardt. Bill Price of WSP summarised an alternative approach taken in Paris.  We looked at the TfL and Network Rail house building targets and explained how they respond to approaches for projects. This was followed by an open Q&A session with the panel facilitated by Nigel Fraser of Buildoffsite.

Q&A

Designing for overbuild, creating sites & efficient building

21 May 2020

2pm – 3pm

In the second of our series of webinars on Buildoffsite’s recently published Linear Infrastructure Overbuild Guide, developed from earlier research which identified the potential to build a quarter of a million homes above railway lines in London, we covered 2 topics followed by an interactive Q&A session:

  • Engineering the deck: Peter McMahon from WSP discussed the design and construction issues involved in providing a structural deck as the platform for overbuild development of a site.
  • Overbuild delivery systems: Nick Hacking from Sheppard Robson presented how we may effectively realise building development above the rail land, with consideration of the typically constrained urban conditions, efficient means to integrate structural ‘box’ and the exploitation of offsite construction methods as key to unlock the sites.

This was followed by an interactive Q&A session with the presenters chaired by Nigel Fraser.

What did participants get out of this?

  • Gain insight onto the practicalities of creating sites above railways.
  • Understand how different approaches to design can have a significant impact on viability.
  • Get a feel for how to approach putting buildings on decks over cuttings and stations.
  • See how offsite approaches are beneficial.

Video Recording

Q&A transcript

POSTPONED – Tour & Meeting at the Active Building Centre

12 May 2020 , Active Building Centre, Active Classroom, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Swansea SA1 8EN

Due to current COVId-19 situation this event is postponed until further notice. In the meantime we’re currently developing our webinar programme and will be revealing more information on topics covered etc.

POSTPONED – Member to Member Meeting

25 March 2020 , Arup, 8-13 Fitzroy St, Bloomsbury, London, W1T 4BQ

Please note that due to the emerging and escalating Covid-19 Coronavirus situation, we have unfortunately decided to postpone this event until we have a clearer idea of the situation in the UK.

POSTPONED – Water Hub meeting

23 March 2020 , Welsh Water, Spooner Cl, Marshfield, Newport NP10 8FZ

Please note that due to the emerging and escalating Covid-19 Coronavirus situation, we have unfortunately decided to postpone this event until we have a clearer idea of the situation in the UK.

Workshop to progress the Common Design of the Water Industry Chemical Dosing System

Agenda

09.30 – 10.00: Registrations and Refreshments

10.00 – 10.15: Introductions in the room

10.15 – 10.30: Introduction to the objective

10.30 – 11.00: Participant feedback Client – Consultant – Supply Chain

11.00-11.15: Break

11.15-12.15: Develop rules for Standard Design

12.15-13.00: Lunch

13.00-14.00: Review Standard P&ID

14.00-14.30: Next steps

14.30: Close

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Directions

 

Buildoffsite Residential Hub Meeting

25 February 2020 , JCB VIP Visitor Centre, JCB WHQ, Rocester, Staffordshire, ST14 5LS

Unlocking the potential for housing Associations to deliver MMC

“Homes England has created real impetus into accelerating housing delivery in UK via offsite manufacture; Housing Associations are keen to take up the challenge; Manufacturers are keen to grown their output. So what are the key hurdles and how are they best overcome?”

Following their recent work for Homes for the North and The Housing Forum’s “MMC for Affordable Housing Developers”, BuildOffsite invited HA’s, developers and manufacturers to discuss how they make their first moves to unlock the enormous potential in this sector of the market – and how we can analyse and measure what ‘quality’ really means in the specific context of social housing.

Presentations

Buildoffsite Wellingborough Prison Factory Tour hosted by Bison and Kier

13 February 2020 , Bison Precast Tetron Point William Nadin Way Swadlincote DE11 0BB

                                                          

Buildoffsite Wellingborough Prison Factory Tour hosted by Bison and Kier, Thursday 13th February 2020

Overview

Kier is currently delivering a new build resettlement prison at Wellingborough after being awarded the £253m contract by the MoJ. The team is adopting a Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) or ‘kit-of-parts’ approach, incorporating repeatable, standardised components and assemblies across the 13 buildings on site.

The project makes extensive use of precast concrete components, bringing together three separate precast suppliers, including Forterra’s specialist precast division, Bison.

As part of the Bison factory tour, guests will be able to see some of the components being manufactured and gain insight into the collaborative approach being adopted by the project team.

Places are limited – so please register to attend early.

Due to the sensitivity of the project, no photography will be permitted.

PPE will be required so please bring the following:

·        Boots

·        Hard hat

·        Hi vis vest / jacket

·        High vis trousers

·        Safety glasses

·        Gloves

If you do not have suitable PPE please contact info@buildoffsite.com to arrange.

Design & Digital Hub meeting followed by tour & drinks

16 January 2020 , Ideal Standard, 76-78 Clerkewell Rd, Farringdon, London, EC1M 5QA

Time: 3.30pm – 5.30pm with drinks and tour provided

  • Neil Bills, Ideal Standard – Design Credentials within bathroom/washroom sectors
  • Ben Robinson, Hawkins Brown – Overview of digital design tools developed by Hawkins Brown’s computation team
  • Daniel Leech, TDS – Hong Kong International Airport: an exemplar in how investing in the digital asset creates value and certainty across the supply chain

Register here

 

Rail Hub Meeting

09 December 2019 , CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN

Agenda

10:00-10:15  Introductions
10:15-11:15  The Overbuild Guide – overview from Bill Price (WSP), Nigel Fraser (Buildoffsite) & chapter authors
11:15-11:30  Break
11:30-12:30  Overbuild next steps discussion – how do we facilitate the identification of project opportunities; an ideas generation and evaluation session
12:30-13:00  Break
13:00-13:30  Possible evolution of the Rail Hub into a wider Transport Hub
13:30-14:30  Proposed activity plan for 2020
14:30-15:00  AOB

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Design Hub meeting

06 December 2019 , John Henry Brookes Building, Room JHB128 (executive suite), Headington Rd, Oxford, OX3 0BP

Following Oxford Brookes University’s inclusion of offsite in the diploma course for the first time, Buildoffsite’s next DesignOffsite Group meeting will include discussions with the head Matt Gaskin on how to support their recent initiative, an offsite building visit etc.

Agenda

11.00 -12.30 – Buildoffsite Design Hub meeting

  1. Promoting the Design Hub to increase membership by architectural practices of Buildoffsite (for discussion)
  2. Report on progress with organisational re-structuring of Buildoffsite into Design/Procurement/Manufacture/Assembly hubs (NM, SK)
  3. Report on progress with improving the website (SK)
  4. Update on CITB-funded training programme for designers (NO)
  5. Client engagement programme (refer to previous minutes*)
  6. Engagement with manufacturers (for discussion)
  7. Activities for 2020 (for discussion)

12.30 – Lunch meeting with OB staff/tutors

Discussion around the course and what all members see as lacking in the education and their general need

14.30 – Optional building visit (TBC)

Parking on site is very limited so the nearest car park is Thornhill Park & Ride.

Offsite Construction Show – Day 2

21 November 2019 , ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

Supported by BEIS, the Department for Business  Energy and Industrial Strategy

Seminars – 21 November

Seminar 1 – 10.45 – 11.15

CLC delivering radical change

Speakers:

Host – Tim Carey, Buildoffsite

Jade Lewis, CLC and Saint-Gobain & Fergus Harradence, Director, BEIS

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and the Construction Sector

A revolution in the making?

Set up in 2013 as a collaboration between Government and Industry the CLC is working to develop solutions to deliver the challenging industry improvement targets set out in the joint landmark report: Construction 2025 the industrial strategy for construction.

As a result of the 2018 Sector Deal with the construction industry Government has made £170 million available to support collaborative activities that will deliver substantial improvements in productivity, by increasing the use of digital technologies, expanding the understanding and adoption of offsite methods alongside increased investment in training, improving contractual and payment practices, and other urgent priorities.

For the first time in a generation Government has committed significant funds to support the industry find solutions and deliver real improvements to an industry that is critical to the future performance of UK plc, but which for too long has been held back by the debilitating impact of perennial low levels of productivity and low profitably.

The Sector Deal has created real opportunities for businesses of all size to come together and create imaginative solutions to rethink the construction process and deliver construction projects faster, cheaper, better performing, and environmentally superior as well as offering much lower levels of lifetime carbon.

Fergus will give an overview of the Sector Deal, ‘Transforming Construction’ activity and opportunities it offers the industry.

Jade will give an overview of the CLC and the work of the ’Innovation in buildings Workstream’ in removing barriers to the use of Offsite manufacturing in the residential sector.

Tim Carey

Tim is National Product Director for Willmott Dixon, with a portfolio covering design, innovation, quality, offsite and digital construction. He leads their 18-strong National Product Team, who’s focus is to identify and promote innovative methods and products that constructively challenge Willmott Dixon’s existing approaches and improve the quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of its end product.

A Fellow of the CIOB and a Chartered Environmentalist, Tim studied at the University of Greenwich, before being subsequently awarded both an MBA and a RICS Post-Graduate Diploma from the University of Reading.

Tim is Chair of the Governing Forum of Buildoffsite, a Digital Ambassador for CADCOE, a workstream lead for the Construction Leadership Council, and an official Prince of the Nkwen tribe in Cameroon.

Jade Lewis

Jade has 23 years of experience working in various roles in the construction product sector spanning technical sales, operations, quality management, R&D, project leadership. For the last eight years, she has been working in Advocacy for Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland. As Director of Advocacy, she aims to build collaboration with the industry and government organisations to help to inform the policymaking process. Saint-Gobain’s aim in engaging with policymakers is to help drive improvement in the performance of buildings to enhance the wellbeing of the occupants and minimise the long term impact of our built environment on the planet. Jade is also active in the Construction Leadership Council’s Innovation in Buildings workstream where she supports Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland’s CEO, Mike Chaldecott who leads this work to help to drive the uptake of smart construction in the house building industry.”

Fergus Harradence

The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is the Department responsible for industrial policy, and the productivity and international competitiveness of the UK economy, including the construction sector. Fergus Harradence is the Deputy Director for Construction, responsible for leading work within the Department in this area. Since joining the Civil Service In 2000, he has worked In a number of Departments In a range of economic policy roles, including trade policy, export promotion, Innovation and corporate tax. His current responsibilities Include BEIS’ policies to help Improve the performance of the construction sector, the Department’s contribution to the Government’s house building ambitions, and its relationship with the Construction Leadership Council.


Seminar 2 – 11.45 – 12.45

A productivity revolution through smart manufacturing

Speakers:

Host: Graham Cleland, Berkeley homes

James Smith, Majenta

Colin Dixon, Berkeley Homes

Fabien Crochetet, coBuilder

All presentations

Towards a digitally enabled Construction Industry

Currently the construction sector bears little resemblance to the manufacturing sector. Significant differences exist in terms of culture, operating philosophy, productivity, return on investment, talent development and so on.

When ‘offsite’ is used as a prefix to either “manufacturing” or “construction” people will often assume the resulting terms to mean much the same thing. In reality they mean different things. It is important to understand the demarcation between of offsite manufacturing and offsite construction. The key is that an offsite manufacturing approach facilitates predictability and repeatability and supports digitisation with an emphasis on Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA) as opposed to visualisation alone.

By applying the right sort of thinking we can anticipate a flexible manufacturing system methodology which can support the notion of mass-customised product (i.e. non-template/platform solutions) with what in the jargon is known as capacity for high conversion velocity. In simple terms that means the elapsed time to convert raw materials to a fully-fitted module.  These sorts of outcomes provide the rationale for making the significant investment in capital equipment and developing the necessary talent that will provide the foundation for a transformative industrialised logic for construction. This talent must understand how to create, manipulate, transform, share and capture digital information and data as a pre-requisite to realize step-change in productivity and scalability.

With input from industry experts this Seminar will explore the journey that the construction sector needs to make if it is going to match the productivity, performance and value that is now both common-place within leading manufacturing sectors and also expected by their clients and customers.

Graham Cleland

Graham Cleland is Managing Director of Berkeley Modular, a newly-formed business which will produce a volumetric modular housing solution for the Berkeley Group.

Founded in December 2016, Berkeley Modular will enable the Berkeley Group to use technologically advanced off-site manufacturing methods to produce a range of modular housing products designed to the same high specification and excellent build standards that customers demand from the Berkeley Group.

Prior to embarking on the work at Berkeley Modular, Graham amassed a wealth of experience in the construction and engineering sector in a career that spans more than three decades. Graham’s knowledge of the off-site sector has put him ahead of the curve as the industry moves towards a more technologically-driven method of construction

Prior to working at Berkeley, Graham worked as General Manager of the off-site business of NG Bailey for four years, preceded by a four-year stint with Unite Group plc as Sales and Commercial Director of Unite’s off-site manufacturing business.

James Smith

James Smith is Technical Director at Majenta Solutions, drawing on nearly 15 years of industry experience, during which time he has worked for a variety of companies ranging from SMEs to large organisations helping to improve processes and deliver software projects. With this experience, James is driving the ongoing growth of Majentas digital services division, bringing on new clients and partnerships. He is passionate about achieving further efficiencies in Automotive, Manufacturing and Construction and motivates his team constantly to strive to achieve greater digital adoption across all Industries.

Royston Young

Royston is a founding director of Design Automation Systems Ltd (DAS) with over 20 years experience of working with proprietary Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) platforms and developing platforms for both Autodesk and their own .NET platform for construction. They have worked with main contractors on large construction projects such as Heathrow Terminal 5 where they reduced the 26 man-year wall detailing process to only 8 hours. DAS also work with manufacturers in offsite sectors such as pipeline design, conservatory roof design, pre-cast concrete products, modular foundation systems and modular M&E services. DAS are currently using their expertise and KBE platform with Berkeley Modular to help streamline data workflows to create a highly flexible and efficient factory to produce offsite modules.

Fabien Crochetet

Fabien has 15 years of sales management experience within the information technology and construction industry along with a strong grasp on the UK regional market. He has worked across the value chain within the construction industry actors ranging from Owners,  financial institutions, main contractors up to the manufacturers. Before Cobuilder, he was Sales Manager in “LetsBuild“, a digital construction software company. For more than 11 years Fabien has worked for the computer technology corporation Oracle  where he was Application Sales Manager and Channel Manager within the Construction & Engineering Global Business Unit.


Seminar 3 – 13.15 – 14.15

Improving the delivery of UK infrastructure

Speakers:

Host: Nigel McKay, Buildoffsite

Alasdair Reisner, CECA

Steve Davy, Highways England 

Delivering UK Infrastructure – Opportunities for Offsite

An integrated contemporary infrastructure is vital to support and nurture a modern economy. Spending money on infrastructure is very much about investing in the future.

Currently the UK is looking at a combined public sector/private sector spend of around £600 billion over the next decade or so. An incredible amount of money which to a very considerable extent will directly or indirectly involve the delivery of construction projects of various forms.

This level of spend and the associated need to ensure the efficient design and delivery of infrastructure projects will bring unprecedented opportunities for the offsite industry to win the argument for offsite solutions to be recognised as the delivery method of choice for an increasing share of major projects.

This Seminar will explore both the scale of this demand and also examine how leading clients are addressing the challenge of delivering their infrastructure projects. Clients will also be setting out their views on what the offsite industry needs to do to provide better value solutions, to ensure confidence in product, performance and capacity and to win work.

Nigel McKay

Industry Advisor, Buildoffsite

Nigel McKay has had a long career working for some of the most prestigious blue chip companies in the UK and has led the procurement teams at four of those companies across UK, Europe and the Middle East.

His most recent employment before embarking on a career to manage his own consultancy was that of the Procurement Director for Construction for HS2 which he was in post from January to July 15.

Since leaving HS2 and creating his own company, Nigel has secured work for a number of companies such as BRE, Kier, Carillion, Balfour Beatty, Achilles, Quintain, Lend Lease, Cundall, Translink, ASGC, Tarmac and Thales.

Alasdair Reisner

Alasdair is the Chief Executive of the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA). CECA is the representative body for the UK’s civil engineering contractors, who build and maintain the nation’s critical infrastructure networks in the key sectors of transport, energy, water, waste, and communications. CECA represents over 300 contractors of all sizes, covering approximately 80% of the civil engineering market in Great Britain. CECA members employ close to 200,000 people, deliver work worth around £15 billion every year, and build or maintain infrastructure that provides the basis for economic sustainability and quality of life in communities across the country.

Steve Davy

Steve is the Head of Technical Standards at Highways England.  He has worked in the highways industry for all his career with many varied roles in design, construction maintenance and operations.  He has worked for local authorities, consultants and for central Government.

Since moving in to his current role about 5 years ago he has led to biggest ever revision and modernisation of the UK Design and Construction Standards for highways.  This has led to a change in focus from technically based construction to software and technology application to automate and assist designers, constructors and maintainers of highways


Seminar 4 – 14.30 – 15.30

Speakers:

Host: Tim Carey, Willmott Dixon

Keith Waller, Construction Innovation Hub – Programme Director

David Clark, The McAvoy Group & James Cowell, Elliott

Construction Innovation Hub: delivering better outcomes for business and society        

The Construction Innovation Hub has been set up with support from Government and industry to support the requirements necessary to address the skills, standards, capacity and innovation needs to forge a forward looking, sustainable and profitable industry.

The Hub wants to challenge the way that the industry currently designs, delivers and maintains projects. The ambition is to focus on making substantive change happen in support of substantially better outcomes. Big picture stuff rather than incremental improvements.

This Seminar will include a presentation by Keith Waller the Hub’s Programme Director and also provide advice on the opportunities for the offsite construction supply side to come forward with their proposals for collaboration to support of the Hub’s ambitions.

Showing what can be achieved through collaboration the Seminar will include a presentation by Elliotts and McAvoy on the SEISMIC project which was funded to develop standardised offsite solutions for school building to deliver significant cost and other benefits.

Keith Waller

Keith is the Construction Innovation Hub’s Programme Director.  A Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Keith has been involved in construction and infrastructure projects for over 30 years, leading many major projects in both the UK and overseas.

In 2010, Keith was seconded into government with Infrastructure UK (the predecessor to the Infrastructure and Projects Authority). He has served on several boards and cross-Whitehall groups, including the Infrastructure Client Group, the Offshore Wind Programme Board, Infrastructure Working Group of the Green Construction Board and the Government Construction Board. He has also advised a number of foreign governments on strategic infrastructure planning and delivery.

A keen advocate of driving innovative and productive solutions, his work in government led to the publication of the UK’s first National Infrastructure Plan, the development of the Infrastructure Cost Review and the IPA’s Transforming Infrastructure Performance programme, published in 2017.

David Clark

David is Manufacturing Director at The McAvoy Group, one of the leading offsite construction specialists in the UK and Ireland.

David has overall responsibility for offsite manufacturing across The McAvoy Group. His role includes management of the expansion of production capacity to meet the business’s strategic growth plans. He is passionate about driving productivity improvements across the manufacturing process, embedding both automation and digital solutions where possible.

James Cowell

James is Technical Director of Elliott UK (part of the Algeco Group). Algeco is Europe and Asia Pacific’s leading business services company specialising in modular space.

James holds over 25 years’ experience in the research, development and design of buildings using Modern Methods of Construction. He is responsible for all technical activities within Elliott including delivery of project specific design, new product development and continuous development of products.


Workshops – 21 November

Workshop 1 – 9.50 – 10.30

Speaker:

Stephen Crowther, Nationwide

Host:

Lee Walker, CDS Group

Nationwide – offsite legendary delivery

Nationwide were targeted with the reduction of cost and time of their 300 branch re fit programme.

There was experience of offsite construction and lean in their property team the project lead put together a challenge to reduce the fit out period by 50% and cost by 15%.

They engaged an offsite fit out contractor (CDS Group) to work collaboratively with them to develop a robust repeatable solution.

They delivered on this target by engineering their standard finishes and creating a 2D panelised solution which was implemented at their new Meadowhall store.

The store was completed in 50% of the time, 15% below budget and without defects achieving ‘legendary’ delivery status

The solution is currently being implemented across the 250 branch rollout programme.

Stephen Crowther

I am a commercially aware; customer focused senior property leader with an in-depth knowledge of delivering projects from client facing to contracting. Always achieving a high standard on contracts in the retail, commercial and mixed use sectors.

I have an absolute passion for process and delivery. I help create unique spaces for customers and for their teams.  I am an proactive agitator, influencing the teams around me. My experience is a blend of property, delivery strategy & design, helping to create industry leading spaces

The less-corporate description of me is: compassionate, dedicated, loyal, and innovative, thinking outside of the box. Change is invertible, so embrace it. I look at things differently, prepared to break with tradition especially when it comes to challenging the norm within our industry.  I work best in a high paced pressured environments, always looking for a flawless delivery.

Lee Walker

With 30 years’ experience as a construction and manufacturing professional and 15 years spent at Managing Director / CEO level, Lee brings a wealth of experience to his role as CEO of CDS Group www.cdsgroup.uk.com.

Passionate about the modernisation of the construction industry, Lee is an advocate of ‘lean construction’ and  ‘build offsite’ techniques, Lee has developed and delivered two dimensional prewired and piped offsite solutions with the target of reducing time on site based on a cost neutral solution.


Workshop 2 – 10.45-11.45

Ensuring new skills for Architects

Speakers:

Host: Karen Shanks, Buildoffsite

Nigel Ostime, Hawkins Brown

Dr Shahab Resalati, Oxford Brookes University

Graeme O’Doherty, AMCM

Anthony Pearce, Apply Structure

Teaching offsite in schools of architecture – Time for Change

The workshop will focus on the subject of developing course content on design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) and for modern methods of construction (MMC) and introducing this content into the architectural curriculum.

It is critical for improved productivity and for the economic sustainability of the construction sector that designers understand and embrace these processes and technologies and implement them into the projects of the immediate future. It is also critical that the best designers are involved, to maintain and set ever more challenging benchmarks to improve the quality and sustainability of our built environment.

The session will start with a panel discussion and then open to the floor for a wide-ranging Q&A with the aim of promoting this approach in all schools of architecture. Oxford Brookes are leading the way in this with a one-year Diploma module. It is hoped that other schools will follow suit.

The need for a more modern approach to training is, of course, equally applicable to CPD

The Workshop will consider a number of questions including:

  • Why is there a need to do things differently?
  • In the absence of a fresh approach is the profession at risk of getting left behind?
  • What course content is needed and how can this be refreshed?
  • In a fast moving world how can training and development best be delivered?
  • How can we best meet the professional and career needs of those wishing to join the profession?

Workshop 3 – 12.00-13.00

Benefits from Building over and alongside transport hubs

Speakers:

Host: Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite

Bill Price, WSP

Robbie Erbmann, TFL

Ivan Dowman, Network Rail

Building above London’s Transport Infrastructure

Opportunities for Offsite Thinking

The investment in London’s surface level transport system in the 19th and 20th Centuries has created incredible opportunities for development and improvement to help address London’s 21st Century challenges.

Right across the capital there are substantial sites where by making the most of modern engineering and construction practices it is possible to unlock the possibility of delivering the sustainable homes and facilities that London needs without impacting on the performance of transport services or adding to the pressures on land availability.

Construction over or adjacent to transport corridors and stations already happens to a limited extent but there is so much more that can be done. As an industry we are not lacking in the technical knowledge to mitigate construction risk – we know how to do this. Rather the challenge is to rethink the construction and asset protection processes. In this way we can develop construction methodologies for transfer decks and overbuild which meet sustainability and quality requirements and do not give rise to needless inconvenience and extended local disruption.

This workshop will give an overview of the supporting work that is underway within Buildoffsite and will also showcase the launch of The 2019 Overbuild Guide.

Unlocking developments over and alongside transport hubs will create substantial opportunities for offsite thinking to come up with the solutions needed to deliver the commercial, environmental and societal benefits that such developments can offer.


Workshop 4 – 13.30-14.30

A university’s plans for development – hear about the business opportunities

Title: Meet the Client – University of Greenwich Powerhouse EDGE

Research, Innovation and Enterprise Platform

Speaker:  Robert Hartley, Head of Estate Strategy and Programme, Central Estates and Facilities Management, University of Greenwich

Overview: Expansion of the University of Greenwich requires the sensitive redevelopment of an existing building of great architectural and historical importance. The project aims to bring together external and internal delivery partners in a unique and innovative ecosystem. The ambition will be to create a sustainable building to experience, test, develop and create a living laboratory in continuous evolution.

The client will outline the project and the indicative value and timeline and describe what the University will be looking for in selecting delivery partners.


20 November and 21 November

Seminar Theatre 2 

Digital Grows UP

Speaker: Chris Gatehouse, Regional Account Manager

11.45am – 12.15pm

Now a proven project planning and delivery tool

Not so long ago, and rather late in the day, the UK construction industry woke up to BIM as a brilliant but often stand-alone aid to project design, optioneering and simulation. However, the benefits of data rich models extend far beyond the design office to the factory and the field. Communication of content enabled, constructible model data is the facilitator for this type of working and the delivery method can be through a number of different technologies.

At OSCS 2019 leading exponents Trimble will be demonstrating the practical ways in which digital tools are now making a real difference to everyday projects.

These sessions will provide an unmatched opportunity for businesses large and small to find out how they too can benefit.

The Offsite Construction Show 2019

20 - 21 November 2019 , ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

Buildoffsite is proud to support the original offsite show of the year

Registrations are now open!

The 4th Offsite Construction Show received overwhelming support from the offsite industry attracting almost 5,000 attendees who represented every part of the UK’s building, construction, design and engineering community, combining to make the UK’s national Offsite exhibition a resounding success.

OSCS2019 now in its 5th year will continue to build on this winning formula and will be a great opportunity for networking and learning more about the latest industry trends. With growing support from the government and recent investments going to modern methods of construction there will definitely be more to talk about – do not miss out!

Buildoffsite will be leading a schedule of workshops and seminars looking at key challenges and themes in the sector.

All our members are entitled to 10% discount on exhibition packages. If interested please contact the OSCS team.

Testimonials from OSCS 2018

We have been glad to exhibit again, at the offsite construction show. It’s been a very successful event for us, as we have had a lot of inquires and we look forward to doing it again next year” – David Wallach

It’s been a fantastic show this year, we have met lots of architects and developers and we look forward to being involved next year” – Daniel Leech

Offsite Construction Show – Day 1

20 November 2019 , ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL

                                           

Supported by BEIS, the Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy

Seminar 1 – 10.45am – 11.15am

An expert view on the UK economy and prospects for construction 

Speakers:

Host – Joe Dyde, Buildoffsite

Tom Hall, Barbour-abi

2020 Vision: Prospects for the UK Construction Industry

The UK construction industry matters. Accounting for almost 3 million jobs and with an annual value topping £110 billion it is not much smaller that the high profile financial services sector.

Construction along with most other sectors is highly vulnerable to what happens in the rest of the economy, to shifting levels of confidence, and the pattern of international flows of capital.

So what is happening at this critical time? How might developments impact on your business and on those you work with and for? Tom Hall, Chief economist at Barbour–abi will offer an overview of the key developments that are expected to impact on the economy and what this might mean for the construction sector and for you.

Joe Dyde

Joe has been the Business Manager for Buildoffsite since 2018, overseeing and driving its continued growth in regards to industry membership and influence within the sector. He is a member of the Construction Leadership Council Steering Group for Innovation in Buildings, and the advisory group for the Construction Industry Training Board’s offsite skills project. He also manages Buildoffsite’s role as a delivery partner for the Construction Innovation Hub and the collaboration with the Transforming Construction Network Plus; and has contributed to various pieces of industry research and projects on behalf of Buildoffsite and its members.

Tom Hall

Tom is Chief Economist at Barbour ABI and AMA Research, providing analysis and economic insight for the construction and related sectors, assessing the trends and developments that impact the industry. Tom has over a decade of experience in a variety of strategic and economic roles within the water and utilities sector and joined the team in early 2019. Offering bespoke research and tailored analysis to our clients, Tom also speaks at industry events and works closely with journalists and other industry bodies to provide commentary on the built environment.


Seminar 2 – 11.30am – 12.30pm

Residential Developers share their offsite experiences & expectations

Speakers:

Host: Tom Eshelby, Chair of Buildoffsite Residential Hub

Alun Macey, Pocket Living & Adam Challis, JLL

Chris Spiceley, Places for People

“Taking the Plunge” – Catch the client perspective on the experience of Offsite Construction. 

Pioneering Residential Developers – Alun Macey from Pocket Living and Chris Spiceley of Places for People give their views, with Adam Challis of JLL providing expert analysis

“What’s it really like to deliver a building in offsite modular? (And would you ever do it again?!)”

One of the key aims of the Buildoffsite Residential Hub is to bring clients and suppliers together; to encourage developers to make the leap into the world of DfMA and modular delivery of their buildings.

There’s an ever-increasing buzz around the virtues and benefits of adopting volumetric delivery – considerations around digitalization, sustainability and managing the increasing challenges presented by the construction industry.

On Wednesday 20 November at London’s ExCel Centre the Buildoffsite Residential Hub will be hosting a free to attend Seminar at which experienced clients will share their experiences of using offsite solutions on their projects.

  • Alun Macey from Pocket Living, a company which has pioneered a whole new sub-sector of “high design, low cost” homes, will provide a frank account of his perspective on “the good, the bad and the ugly” in delivering buildings through offsite manufacture.
  • Chris Spiceley, Director of Developments & Delivery at Places for People, a Housing Association which is now in partnership with Ilke Homes will outline the benefits that their tie-in with a leading UK offsite manufacturer brings.

This exceptional one hour Seminar which will be hosted by Tom Eshelby and will also include insights from Adam Challis, Head of Living Research & Strategy at JLL.

The event will take place at 11.30am at the Buildoffsite Theatre at the Offsite Construction Show at ExCel. It is a Seminar that will appeal to all those who have an interest in the future shape of home building in the UK and to get below the surface of taking an offsite approach.

Tom Eshelby

Tom brings a very broad range of expertise across all elements of real estate, founded upon 20 years in the industry. Previously at Land Securities, British Land, Macquarie Bank and Savills, Tom has spent the last two years as Managing Director of the development business at Stelling Properties, a company which manufactures volumetric modules for its own projects.

Tom is passionate about encouraging new residential developers into the offsite world and guiding them through the entire process and the requirements around their first steps ventures into modular delivery.

Alun Macey

Alun has relationships across the construction sector having delivered complex construction at Carillion, Bouygues UK and McLaren Group.

A Chartered Construction Manager, he is now Head of Construction at Pocket Living, responsible for land due diligence, procurement, methods of construction and the delivery of Pocket Living’s projects.

Furthermore Alun has delivered schemes via modern methods of construction as both a contractor and developer, four of which of utilised full volumetric construction ranging from 11 to 26 storeys.

Chris Spiceley

Chris has recently joined Places for People as a Director with specific responsibility for driving the Group’s adoption of modern methods of construction (MMC) and transforming our approach to development delivery.  With a career spanning over 25 years in the UK construction sector, Chris has worked for some of the most recognised names for delivery, safety, excellence and innovation. At Lend Lease and Mace, Chris had responsibility for >£100m schemes for both public and private sector clients. Chris balances design integrity and client and end-user satisfaction with a ruthless commercial pragmatism. Chris was the commissioning Director for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize Award winner.

Adam Challis

Adam co-ordinates the JLL pan-European Living business and manages the day to day operations of the JLL Living research team. The team provides UK market briefing papers and thought leadership that supports the wider residential advisory and agency businesses. It engages directly with Government to provide policy advice and with clients to provide transactional support and strategic consultancy advice. Adam’s experience spans 15 years of advisory with both public and private sector clients on residential development and investment opportunities. He acts as company spokesperson for a wide range of housing market-related issues and is regularly cited in national and international media, alongside a wide range of industry speaking engagements. Adam joined JLL as Head of UK Residential Research in January 2013 and has held similar roles at other property advisors in London and Toronto, Canada. Education and Affiliations Adam holds an MSc Urban Regeneration from the Bartlett, University College London, a BA Economics from Western University (London, Canada) and recently completed an MBA at London Business School. He is a member of the Society of Property Researchers and the Urban Land Institute. Adam is a trustee of World Habitat and a supporter of both Shelterbox, a disaster charity, and JLL’s homelessness charity partner, Crisis.


Seminar 3 – 13.00 – 14.00

Achieving design quality with offsite

Speakers: 

Host: Nigel Ostime, Hawkins Brown

Tom Kyle, Sheppard Robson

Andy Heath, BPTW

Stephen Wilson, Stride Treglown

Achieving design quality with offsite

The Design Hub was set up earlier this year within Buildoffsite, with the aim of shifting the focus of the organisation towards the critical optioneering and early design stages of projects. Since it was initiated a number of high-profile architectural practices have joined the organisation and more are doing so. This panel discussion will discuss the importance of good design, raising the bar for conceptual quality, for place-making and enhanced sustainability and how we need to help clients understand what they must do differently to reap the benefits a DfMA approach can bring. The discussion topics will include:

  • The importance of early design considerations and the optioneering process
  • Examples of good design using MMC
  • Adopting standardisation
  • Digital technology

Tom Kyle

Tom is an associate leads the sustainability and Build-Offsite groups at Sheppard Robson.  Since joining he has become a senior remember of the residential team and has extensive experience designing and delivering residential and mixed use projects.  Examples include Camden Courtyards, Stephenson Street, 399 Edgware Road, Barking Riverside, and Globe Road.

He is passionate about all areas of sustainability and in particular passive design.  More recently the sustainability group have looked at ways to reduce embodied carbon on projects which has in part led to joining Build-Offsite to reduce waste and transportation emissions on projects.

Prior to joining Sheppard Robson Tom worked at Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, PRP and ZED Factory.

Nigel Ostime

Nigel is Delivery Director at Hawkins\Brown Architects, an internationally renowned, award-winning practice based in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. He has over 25 years’ experience working as an architect and lead designer on complex, large-scale developments in aviation, infrastructure, commercial, residential and town-centre mixed-use. He was previously a director at modular housing provider Rational House, and before that a director at Reid Architecture and 3DReid.

Nigel is an active member of the RIBA and chairs the Client Liaison Group, which provides an interface between the institute and client representative bodies. He also sits on the RIBA Practice and Profession Committee.

Nigel recently set up the Design Hub within BuildOffsite with the aim of promoting design quality and DfMA in the construction industry.

Andy Heath

As a partner at BPTW, Andy’s experience spans across a wide range of housing typologies, working in the public, private and commercial sectors. Andy oversees BPTW’s strategic Design Quality and Sustainability Groups, ensuring good quality design and sustainability is at the heart of their work. He is committed to exploring innovative ways to design and build better homes and has been at the forefront of many of BPTW’s most successful schemes using a range of Design for Manufacture and Assembly and MMC solutions.

BPTW has been integrating OSM into their work since the early 2000s and place a strong emphasis on research and development through modern methods of construction and offsite construction solutions. BPTW has a strong ethos focussed on quality with long term benefits to their clients, end users and the environment.  This approach aims to improve efficiency, reduce waste and speed up delivery, enhancing build quality and environmental performance.

Stephen Wilson

Stephen is a Divisional Director at Stride Treglown and co-lead of the ‘Manufactured Design’ group, passionate about all forms of offsite design and construction. He is also part of the Offsite Project at the Supply Chain Sustainability School, a pilot course design training session for the construction industry.

A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington (NZ), he holds both Bachelor of Building Science and Bachelor of Architecture degrees and is an Architect Member of the New Zealand Institute of Architects having served on the Wellington Branch committee.

Professional life in New Zealand has involved around a decade with Archaus Architects on a variety of projects mostly in Wellington and Auckland and of residential and commercial nature.

Since joining Stride Treglown in 2007 Stephen has become a Student Living expert and has considerable experience in the design, management and delivery of schemes for tier one contractors, universities, and large developers.

Stephen has designed schemes from precast concrete to SIPS, from bathroom pods to full volumetric, from components to multi-floor façade panels, involving subcontractors from abroad and throughout the UK.


Seminar 4 – 14.30 – 15.30

Delivering the new skills the industry needs 

Speakers:

Host: Nick Whitehouse, Buildoffsite

Declan McDonnell, Cadcoe

Charles Naud, Action Sustainability

Declan McDonnell, Cadcoe

Anne Nortcliffe, Canterbury University

Joanna Vezey, Laing O’Rourke

Delivering Future Skills

The Construction industry is in transition. New products, new technologies, ubiquitous application of digital, new forms of construction design and delivery close coupled with an unprecedented need for the industry to address the key issues of productivity and sustainability.

These are not issues for someone else. No matter where you fit in – whether as a client, a supplier or manufacturer you can be certain that developments that will impact on your business are just around the corner.

This Seminar will address some of the ways in which the new skills agenda is being addressed.

Nick Whitehouse

Nick studied architecture at Sheffield University and gained B.Arch.(Hons) in 1969 followed by Architects registration in 1972 and chartered membership of the RIBA in 1973.

He has wide experience of the construction sector including past employment as a senior Architect in a Local Authority, as company Architect in a Design and Build organisation, as a Director of JVs in housing and a major PFI project and eleven years as Chairman and Managing Director of a leading offsite construction company until his retirement in 2007. Nick joined Oxford Brookes University in 2008 and received a MBE for his contribution to the building industry in the 2010 New Year’s Honours list.

He currently is a visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University and an industry adviser to Buildoffsite.

Charles Naud

Charles has eight years’ experience in sustainability and innovation for the built environment. He is passionate about business models that provide positive outcomes for the environment and society. He joined Action Sustainability in September 2018 to lead the expansion of the Supply Chain Sustainability School’s work on offsite construction in mainland Europe. Notably, Charles has recently launched Campus Hors-site, aimed at upskilling professionals in France on offsite construction.

Declan McDonnell

With more than 20 years’ experience specialising in recruitment, Declan McDonnell has a passion for supporting emerging talent into roles within digital construction. In 2011, he decided to channel that passion into setting up Cadcoe (Construction and Design Centre of Excellence), a training organisation specialising in the development of digital design skills, with a purpose of addressing the skills crisis the industry is embroiled in. During his time leading the business, he has developed a profound clarity around the behaviours and qualities of the emerging generations poised to enter the workforce. To date he has supported over 200 trainee digital designers into roles across the UK, helping a broad range of digital construction businesses maximise their capabilities to attract the future talent needed for the industry’s future survival.

Dr Anne Nortcliffe

Dr Anne Nortcliffe is the Founding Head o School of Engineering, Technology and Design, at Canterbury Christ Church University.  Anne has been working with the construction industry to co-design curriculum to support Industry 4.0 revolution of the construction industry.   Anne has in particular worked with construction industry to design full-time mechanical engineering curriculum with a pathway that will produce Building Service Engineering graduates who embrace smart technology integration in building construction, operation and maintenance.  Also, developed Engineering degree apprenticeship programme to support staff development of industry 4.0 engineering degree apprentices for the Build-off-Site manufacturing industry.

Joanna Vezey

Appointed as Technical Director (Europe) in September 2019 – Joanna will work to future proof and transform the technical function involving merging integrated data analysis, digitisation and disruptive technologies, with leading customer experience, and our demonstrated engineering and operational delivery expertise.

Previously, Joanna served on the Europe Leadership Team for Laing O’Rourke as Head of Human Capital for Europe. She led the people agenda at Laing O’Rourke, focusing on productivity and transformation whilst maintaining a focus on talent retention and internal development to address the industry skill shortage. Joanna is a firm believer that people are central to delivering exceptional built environment outcomes that support thriving local and global communities.

Joanna has worked in the construction industry for two decades having graduated from the University of Southampton with an honours degree in Environmental Engineering. She became a Chartered Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2008 and in 2018 completed a Master of Studies at the University of Cambridge in Construction Engineering where she won the Laing O’Rourke Queens’ College Prize for her research ‘The effect of autonomy on wellbeing in a highly constrained construction environment’.

In Joanna’s career, she has extensive experience delivering large infrastructure projects working for client, consultant and construction organisations both in the UK and Australia. Career highlights have seen Joanna delivering early feasibility work for the new approach structures at London Bridge Station in London and constructing a rail interchange in Glenfield, New South Wales designed to support significant population growth to the west of Sydney.


Workshops – 20 November

Workshop 1 – 10.30-11.15

Delivering projects ahead of time and budget – Yes we can!

Speakers:

Keith Branwhite, Procter & Gamble

Damian Kelly, Graham Construction

Host:

Ali Mafi, Lean Thinking

Systemic Project Delivery

As a client the delivery of a new building can be incredibly frustrating. When we need a new facility to further develop our business and to create jobs, we commit a great deal of time and money to justifying our investment. We then employ the best people to turn our investment dream into reality and all too often the delivery system starts to go off the rails. Why is it that so many construction projects go out of control both in terms of time and cost? Is this just an inevitable feature of investing in construction – both in the UK and internationally?

At P&G we don’t accept this inevitably and due to our number of global projects we are always looking to work with our supply chain and improve the project delivery system testing out new principles. I am going to share with you how by introducing a scientific project delivery system, utilising many of the fundamentals from our factory production systems that are rare in construction, we have managed to reverse the outcome of a project that was heading the wrong way at our facilities in Reading. This new project delivery system has made life easier an has helped optimise completion ahead of time and budge. This has been possible using an external consultancy Lean Thinking Ltd and working with a Graham Construction and MJL the M&E contractor being open to do things differently and engaging with the system.

Currently we are planning our next major investment in the UK and we will ensure that things are set up so that we utilise the new system from the outset and the as part of the system optimise the benefits of offsite and BIM.


Workshop 2 – 11.30 – 12.30

Innovation in MEP – delivering customer value

Speakers:

Host: Karen Shanks, Buildoffsite

Phil Henry, Polypipe

David Bradley, E+I Engineering Group

Paul Hopps, Apex Wiring & Mark Watkins, NG Bailey

MEP – Innovative Services and Solutions

The construction industry faces considerable challenges. The need for the industry to become more productive and the need for buildings and structures to perform better in use is placing considerable demands on the services sector to come up with new more sustainable ways to deliver right first time quality and performance in use. The use of digital to drive efficiencies in the design process and the increasing availability of factory manufactured service solutions opens up fresh opportunities to deliver project and customer value

This Workshop Session will explore how leading suppliers of service solutions are developing new pre-manufactured solutions to enable more effective and more sustainable installation and commissioning.

David Bradley

David has been in the Electrical Industry for over 30 years with over half his working life at Schneider Electric.

He moved from Schneider to E&I Engineering to specifically work on the off-site build of Electrical Power Chains on Power Skids or in Pre-Fabricated Enclosures.

E&I’s heritage is Electrical MV & LV Switchgear together with Power Distribution Solutions and over the last few years customers have requested that time to deploy on site

be greatly reduced and therefore build off site has been a major growth area.

Phil Henry

Engineer with over 43 years of experience within the UK construction and manufacturing sectors and a track record of providing workable solutions for sustainable water solutions for tall buildings and urban realm. Board member of Constructing Excellence and BSRIA Council member.

Paul Hopps

Sales Director with 20 years’ experience in the electrical trade, from wholesale to manufacturing. Having spent 12years with Apex, Paul has helped it become established as one of the leading modular wiring companies in the UK.

Mark Watkins

Mark manages the operational activities for NG Bailey’s Offsite Manufacture function..

With over 35 years’ experience in the construction industry, his background covers manufacturing, assembly, prefabrications, welded fabrications and mechanical and electrical building solutions.

Mark has been a keen supporter of offsite solutions for many years and has contributed to a number of award-winning projects across the commercial, health, nuclear, infrastructure clinical education, retail and industrial sectors.

 


Workshop 3 – 13.00 – 14.00

Ensuring confidence in innovative house building

Speakers:

Host: Nick Whitehouse, Buildoffsite

Brian Minchin, Lloyds Register

Terry Mundy, Lloyds Register

Jeff Maxted, BLP

Marcus Fookes, First Start Homes

BOPAS – Benchmarking Standards for the Offsite sector

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and to valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

This workshop will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building.

Buildoffsite member Marcus Fookes, First Start Homes to present on their journey towards BOPAS accreditation.

Terry Mundy – Terry is a chartered engineer, with over 30 years experience in the nuclear and conventional power sectors. He was involved in the introduction of risk management processes to support deregulation in the gas, water and electricity connections market and most recently involved in the development of the process accreditation element of the Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) and the Lloyd’s Register BIM Accreditation scheme.

Jeff Maxted

Jeff comes from a surveying background having attained the College of Estate Management’s Diploma in Surveying and worked in a variety of architectural and surveying practices since 1973.  He became BLP’s Director of Technical Consultancy in 2014 following many years overseeing the risk management team that underpins BLP’s warranty and latent defects products. The Technical Consultancy focuses on promotion of Smart Construction through BOPAS and BLP’s expertise in life cycle modelling, embodied energy assessments and component and system durability assessments.


Workshop 4 – 14.30 – 15.30

Tall building masterclass

Speakers:

Alex Hyams, Alinea

Steve Watts,  Alinea

Getting High on Offsite

A look at the history of the tall building in the UK, the challenges from both design and viability, a look at recent developments in high rise construction and finally thoughts on the future of how towers will be designed and constructed including the opportunities for offsite solutions.

Alex Hyams

Alex has over 15 years of industry experience, most of which has been developed in the residential and retail sectors on some challenging and exciting schemes.

Alex has a successful record of cost managing complex projects for major developers from inception through to completion, working with the entire project team.

Alex is very personable, calm under pressure, with a keen eye for detail. He applies himself professionally to the projects and Clients he works with.

Within alinea, Alex leads our residential offer and is passionate about innovation and economic design. Alex also contributes to the knowledge and innovation group, whilst helping to set up the ‘hot rates’ database and often talks at events about residential developments and in particular, modular and Build to Rent.

Steve has 30 years of experience in the industry, having worked with many industry-leading developers and a host of top designers on demanding projects, large and small.

Steve has unrivalled knowledge and experience in the economics of tall buildings, working on a number of high profile towers. He was the inaugural Chair of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat’s UK Chapter in 2015 and has been the official Chairman of the global Council since October 2017.

He enjoys a challenge, possessing a forensic attention to detail as well as the ability to see the bigger picture – attributes which he applies to all projects, tall or otherwise.

Steve leads alinea’s Knowledge Group, bringing his passion for innovation, focused research and collaboration to the role.


20 November & 21 November

Seminar Theatre 2

Digital Grows UP

Speaker: Chris Gatehouse, Regional Account Manager

11.45 am – 12.15 pm

Now a proven project planning and delivery tool

Not so long ago, and rather late in the day, the UK construction industry woke up to BIM as a brilliant but often stand-alone aid to project design, optioneering and simulation. However, the benefits of data rich models extend far beyond the design office to the factory and the field. Communication of content enabled, constructible model data is the facilitator for this type of working and the delivery method can be through a number of different technologies.

At OSCS 2019 leading exponents Trimble will be demonstrating the practical ways in which digital tools are now making a real difference to everyday projects.

These sessions will provide an unmatched opportunity for businesses large and small to find out how they too can benefit

Construction’s Digital Manufacturing Revolution

06 November 2019
The B1M is proud to present “Construction’s Digital Manufacturing Revolution” – a compelling new documentary that explores the rise of digital manufacturing in the construction sector.

Developed in association with Solibri, the film journeys inside Laing O’Rourke’s impressive Explore Industrial Park – the most automated concrete products facility in Europe – to discover how digital technology is supporting offsite manufacturing processes at a critical time for the industry.

Join us for the World Premiere at London’s exclusive Ham Yard Hotel on 6 November 2019.

The documentary screening will be followed by a live Q&A with leading experts debating the challenges and opportunities presented.

There will also be an opportunity to network with like-minded peers in one of London’s most exclusive hotels.

Drinks and canapés included.

Dress code: Smart casual

Register here

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

22 - 23 October 2019 , Lucideon, Queen's Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7LQ

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Welcome and Introductions – Joe Dyde, Buildoffsite

Offsite and Modular Testing Projects – Joanne Booth, Lucideon

Lucideon provided an overview of their construction facilities as well as testing and consultancy services for the offsite and modular industry, from materials selection and manufacturing, to installation and verification. The presentation also reviewed projects for offsite and modular manufacturers and suppliers, including Berkeley Homes, WElink, Premier Modular and Wetherby Building Systems.

Bryn Thomas, Dupont

DuPont Performance Building Solutions – Recently DuPont Performance Building Solutions have conducted a study into the current performance of breather membranes that have been installed on roof elements over the last 30 years. The purpose was to analyse the long term performance of different underlay technologies in fulfilling their role as a secondary weather barrier. Results demonstrate that correct membrane technology selection can impact the expected longevity of roof and wall elements and the building as a whole.

Rail Hub Project Visit – Twickenham Station Overbuild

10 October 2019 , Twickenham Station, London Road, Twickenham, TW1 3SX

10th October 2019 

Hosted by Mace

Time: 3PM – 5PM

The next meeting of the Buildoffsite Rail Hub will be a live project visit hosted by Mace. The Twickenham Gateway project is being developed by Solum, a NR / Kier joint venture.

Mace is providing the project management in this challenging, rail overbuild development which is both renewing the station, providing step-free access, and creating residential and retail units. We will be hosted by Daniel Richards of Mace who recently briefed the authors working on the Buildoffsite Rail Hub Overbuild Guide for Linear Infrastructure on the approach taken to deliver this project. Further information on the Solum development can be found here.

Please note that spaces are limited and you will need to bring your own PPE.

Register here

BOPAS breakfast briefing

18 September 2019 , Lloyd's Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BS

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

This breakfast briefing provided an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building.

During the briefing, Tom Eshelby, Managing Director of Stelling Properties accepted their accreditation certificate for their Turnkey Steel Framed Volumetric Building System.

Presentations:

Welcome & Introduction – Professor Nick Whitehouse, Buildoffsite

The BOPAS Scheme – presented by Terry Mundy, Lloyd’s Register & Jeff Maxted, BLP

     

     

     

     

DesignOffsite Group meeting

10 September 2019 , Buildoffsite, CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, London EC1A 9PN

Tuesday 10th September 

2pm-3pm: Buildoffsite members to discuss Communications & Marketing Strategy

3pm-4pm: Meeting

Followed by a tour of citizenM Hotel as designed by member Sheppard Robson

Agenda

  • Buildoffsite membership
  • CITB Update (David Emery/Ian Heptonstall)
  • Update on previous meetings’ action points
  1. Optioneering (IH) & (NO)
  2. Research into what clients want: Client database (NO) & Questionnaire (TH)
  3. Links to architecture schools – Opportunity to host our 6th December meeting at Oxford Brookes University – All-day event considering travelling etc. The meeting will include discussion with the head, Matt Gaskin and Shahab on what we might do to promote DfMA there and how to include in the curriculum + a tour of the school.

Action: If interested in getting involved please email sara.kotsani@buildoffsite.com by 16th October

  • Discussion on what the 6th December meeting should cover
  • Fashion parade of architects to universities
  • Sponsorship for students to get into practices (TK)
  1. Platform approach – Standardisation (TK & PO)
  • Standardisation piece of research with those interested in becoming members of Buildoffsite sharing & contributing
  1. Promoting best practice
  • NW & SR update on bids coming out
  • Relationship building with manufacturers and improving design quality – how to achieve this

If you are interested in attending please contact sara.kotsani@buildoffsite.com

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

02 - 03 September 2019 , Autodesk, Small Heath Business Park, Talbot Way, Birmingham B10 0HJ

                                                   

 

 

         

         

         

         

         

Tuesday 3 September 2019 

Buildoffsite Direction Group meeting hosted by Autodesk

Lee Mullin and Demir Ali – Autodesk

Autodesk Technology and the convergence of AEC and MFG

Graham Cleland – Berkeley Modular (Co-presenters, Majenta + Cobuilder)

Structured product data capture / controlling flow in a digital river / golden thread of information

Nick Coubray – Howick

Innovation through collaboration

Video showcasing examples of Howick’s learnings and innovations from collaboration at the Autodesk BUILDspace technology centre in Boston

Jaimie Johnston – Bryden Wood

PRISM app for precision-manufactured housing + Platforms (DfMA and Systemisation)

Rick Holliday – Factory_OS

A California based modular builder who Autodesk have recently partnered with supporting the build out of the Factory Floor Learning Center, a space dedicated to education and research on industrialized construction and changes needed in public policy to optimize its benefits

Videos

Factory OS wants to build your next apartment in a factory

Housing development erected in West Oakland in 10 days

Deepash Patel – ela8

Overview from our R&D tax relief partner

 

 

 

 

Buildoffsite Summer networking drinks reception (sponsored by Willmott Dixon)

27 August 2019 , BUTCHERS HOOK & CLEAVER, 61 WEST SMITHFIELD, LONDON, EC1A 9DY

                                                                                                                             

Join Buildoffsite members and staff for a Summer networking drinks reception in central London

Sponsored by Willmott Dixon

27 August 2019

17:00 – 20:00

Please join this not to be missed networking drinks reception. This is a great opportunity to expand your network and meet like-minded industry peers at a great central London location.

If you wish to participate please register here.

*Please note this is a member only event

 

Digital Hub meeting

27 August 2019 , Buildoffsite, CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, London EC1A 9PN

Tuesday 27 August 2019

2pm – 4.30pm

Followed by networking drinks sponsored by Willmott Dixon

BUTCHERS HOOK & CLEAVER 61 WEST SMITHFIELD, EC1A 9DY

Following on from the last digital hub meeting on 18th June, we now have a clearer vision for what the hub will aim to achieve over the coming twelve months.

The next Digital Hub meeting will take place on 27thAugust at CIRIA offices in London from 2pm – 4.30pm. The format for this meeting will be three 15/20 minute presentations with all having a 15/20 minute Q&A session straight after. The presentations will aim to highlight either best practice or working examples of how a digital strategy / workflow can create value. The Q&A sessions will be an opportunity to stimulate debate around the following areas;

  • Wider implementation of Digital Delivery / BIM
  • How to get data from architecture and design into production
  • Standardisation
  • Any barriers that potentially require lobbying to Government
  • Procurement barriers
  • Early engagement
  • Member challenges
  • Skills

Speakers to include:

Ben Robinson, Hawkins Brown, Digital Designer – how they used digital tools on their project – forward thinking software – digital technology

  • The design and setting out process of the 8million dots across the façade. And how we were able to issue exact information to the subcontractor so they could print the frit directly using our information.
  • The design and fabrication process of the WikiHouse units. How we worked with Architecture 00 to produce a fully parametric design and fabrication model. So were able to manipulate the central spreadsheet which would live update the design files and every single cutting file for the CNC. Which meant we could produce a full set of construction drawings with a single mouse click. Il also go over how the DfMA was the fundamental driver from the project from day 1 which allowed us to really develop this software solution to deliver it.
  • Quick fire overview of some other related work.

Andrew Bellerby, Solibri, Managing Director

Laing O Rourke had a desire and a need to automate and improve their Quality Control procedures for checking their 3D design and production models before they go into manufacturing at their DfMA factory in Steetley.

They were able to customise and develop the rulesets within Solibri Office (Model Checker) to automate many of their checks previously done manually to eradicate any potential human error before casting takes place.

Learn how they have improved their design to manufacture to assemble process by reducing errors and rejections in the factory

Lorraine McMorrow, McAvoy, BIM & Digital Construction Manager

  • McAvoy Group digital journey overview
  • Project case study to outline BIM and Digital Construction process and application, highlighting the pros and cons
  • What McAvoy have learned about digital and areas our business would like the digital hub to focus on

We will be looking for relevant member engagement at these events as one of the deliverables that the hub would like to achieve is to review any problems that members have and try to look at potential solutions. We will also be looking for expressions of interest for future presentation opportunities at Digital Hub events.

Register here

Rail Hub Overbuild Guide meeting

19 July 2019 , WSP House, 70 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF

As a continuation of the series of workshops on the Overbuild Guide for Linear Infrastructure that Buildoffsite is developing through its members’ contribution, this meeting will be looking at the progress of its various chapters/strands and will pick up on the points raised at the last meeting on the 23 April, 2019.

Agenda to follow

By invitation only

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

18 - 19 June 2019 , ENCON, BINARY PARK, CHOATS RD, BARKING, DAGEHNAM RM9 6RJ

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

18 – 19 June 2019

Theme: International manufacturing and supply opportunities and challenges

     

     

Buildoffsite – Welcome & Introductions

Department for International Trade – Dennis McGlynn, Investment Adviser – Provided an insight into DIT’s Role in Promoting Exports and Attracting Inward Investment to support the Growth of the UK Offsite Construction Sector

WSPJane Richards, Head of Discipline – new member introduction

  • Short introduction
  • WSP & our Global Rethinking Offsite Campaign
  • Brief case studies

Solibri – Andrew Bellerby, Managing Director – Provided an insight into the world of Model Checking and how Solibri bring quality control and assurance to digital design and construction processes. Opportunity to see how the UK & Ireland compare to the rest of Europe in the uptake of building information model checking processes

HORS-SITE Construction – Pascal Chazal, CEO

Pascal talked about:

  • European Appetite for bringing Offsite innovations and systems into the UK
  • Update on the growth in popularity of Offsite (MMC) in France and opportunities that may present to our members

Encon – Chris Barlow, Product Development Director – Demonstrated the pivotal role distribution plays within the supply chain for offsite by showing how we can add value and open opportunities for contractors and working closely with manufacturers

 

DesignOffsite Group Meeting

18 June 2019 , UCL at Here East, 8-9 East Bay Lane, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E15 2GW

This meeting will be hosted at UCL, Here East prior to which we will be taking a tour of The Gantry designed by Hawkins\Brown about 5 mins journey from Stratford Station with the shuttle bus, or about 15 min walking distance. Further details and agenda will be shared in due course. 

4pm-5pm: Tour

5pm-6pm: Meeting

 

Digital Hub Meeting

18 June 2019 , UCL at Here East, 8-9 East Bay Lane, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, E15 2GW

Tuesday 18 June 2019

2pm – 4pm followed by a tour of the The Gantry

Agenda

  • Digital hub outputs and deliverables – what do we want to achieve
  • Agreement on activity stream – how often & when to host
  • Lobbying to Government – what is needed from the membership?
  • Terms of reference
  • Presentations and Case studies – what do we want to learn & share without becoming a talking shop?
  • Procurement barriers to digital collaboration

 

Offsite Manufacture Conference & Exhibition

13 June 2019 , Harrogate Convention Centre, Yorkshire

                               

Buildoffsite have been invited to partner & will be exhibiting at the Offsite Manufacture Exhibition & Conference bringing together leaders from the property, development, infrastructure and construction industries to drive forward the modular and offsite manufacturing agenda.

Our members are entitled to 10% discount on purchasing delegate tickets & partner packages by using code Buildoffsite10

The event represents a unique opportunity to take the pulse of the development and construction sectors, and to share experiences and views on offsite manufacturing and construction and the important role that it has to play in the future of the construction industry. It will include many speakers that have a requirement for modular and offsite manufacture construction who will be looking to engage with suppliers and manufacturers, designers and more.

For more information and to register please click here.

UKAA Roundtable – Is offsite feasible for BTR?

11 June 2019 , Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood Street London EC2V 7WS

Presented by Buildoffsite & Geraghty Taylor

The BTR sector continues to grow rapidly! To be successful BTR requires:

  • Scale to be viable;
  • Quality to meet customer expectations;
  • Operational efficiency to be profitable; and
  • Speed of construction to ensure revenue is generated without delay.

These are characteristics that Offsite construction either shares or can deliver.

At the same time, traditional construction methods are coming under increasing pressure through a lack of capacity, particularly shortages of skilled labour, as the current workforce age and EU nationals leave Britain.

There is potentially great alignment between the BTR sector’s requirements and Offsite solutions. What then is required to enable BTR investors, developers and operators to choose Offsite construction with confidence?

This roundtable is aimed at BTR professionals seeking to learn more about Offsite construction. It will cover the opportunities and the challenges that Offsite brings to traditional development approaches.

Topics to be covered will include:

  • Design for BTR – quality and flexibility
  • Design, standardisation and creating efficiencies
  • Offsite as a BTR business strategy not just a procurement option
  • Supply chain management and influence
  • Barriers and Opportunities

Event details are as below:

Date: Tuesday 11th June

Time: 8.00am to 10.30am

Address: Eversheds Sutherland, 1 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS
Plan your journey

Event timings:
8.00am – Arrival
8.00am – 8.30am – Breakfast
8.30am – 10.00am – Roundtable
10.00am – 10.30am – Networking
10.30am – Session end

If you are interested in attending this roundtable, please reserve your place ASAP as places will be allocated on a first come first serve basis with priority given to UKAA and Buildoffsite members.

This event is free to attend and breakfast will be supplied.

Register Here

BOPAS lunchtime briefing

20 May 2019 , LLOYD’S REGISTER EMEA, 1 TRINITY PARK, BICKENHILL LANE, BIRMINGHAM B37 7ES

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

This lunchtime briefing will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building.

Register here

 

Accelerating Project Delivery briefing

08 May 2019 , CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN

Breakfast Briefing: Accelerating Project Delivery by focusing on uncertainty and risk

This briefing will be looking at a system for delivering projects consistently ahead of time. We will be hearing from clients on some of the challenges faced when looking to complete projects, and how these can be overcome.

Register here

By Ali Mafi & Hamied Ghadimi of LTL with Keith Branwhite of Procter and Gamble one of their global clients.

LTL has designed the most scientific and effective project delivery system for optimising project completion ahead of time by between 20%-30% leading up to the government’s target of 50% after a few iterations. This is achieved by focus on the impact of uncertainty and risk.

The system reverses the current project performance of over 80% running late and over budget in spite of BIM, Lean, Offsite and collaborative forms of contract. The 20% that finish on time will also experience tangible further improvement in time and cost.

The system can be introduced at any phase or stage of the project with tangible time, cost and quality gains and guarantees cash flow and margin improvement at all supply chain levels.

The system is called APD (Accelerating Project Delivery).

APD is an intelligent (self learning), silent, low cost and low stress project delivery system. It ensures that at all times project activities are carried out effectively, efficiently and productively in their order (highest to lowest) of their scientifically calculated impact on the end date.

Akin to a sat nav the system accurately predicts elapse time to completion daily.

The system is based on 12 of the most advanced motivational, production, uncertainty & risk management, communication, self-management and build offsite philosophies and thinking.

The system has been designed based on the following beliefs:

  1. Project management is knowing exactly the impact of every daily task on the end date.
  2. The greatest risk to completing on time and budget is to not carry out daily work in the order of impact on the end date. This risk is prevalent on all projects every day and although very small at times it accumulates through the life of the project to become the greatest cause of late completion and budget over run.
  3. Time accounts for 70%-80% of the project cost hence the most effective way to reduce cost and complete below budget is to focus on halving the project time.
  4. Time risk allowance makes up 40%-50% of each project’s end to end duration. Close to 100% of this allowance gets wasted even if the risks don’t materialise.

Ali and Hamied will illustrate the system’s 12 principles followed by Keith sharing Procter and Gamble’s experience of using the system on their projects.

 

Design Offsite Group meeting

29 April 2019 , CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN

29 April

3pm-5pm

Planned group activities:

  1. Develop optioneering tool for RIBA stage 2
  2. Generating client pull for offsite
  3. Promoting manufacturing interoperability
  4. Insurance, assurance, procurement (eg alliancing, IPI) and cost (ie working with the cost consultants)
  5. Generate links to Schools of Architecture and CIAT to promote DfMA
  6. Platform approach

Agenda to follow

Register here

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

23 - 24 April 2019 , Griffin Court | 15 Long Lane | London | EC1A 9PN | UK

Direction Group Meeting, 24th April

Buildoffsite – Member Successes & the Future

      

      

     

      

This Direction Group meeting was an opportunity for our members to share their successes by giving an overview of their offsite award winning projects including Education Project of the Year, Infrastructure Project of the Year and Offsite Pioneer of the Year. The event was also a chance to learn more about our new member Ideal Standard and get an insight into the role of standards in offsite construction through a presentation from BSI. Buildoffsite and BSI will be working closely together to provide regular updates and communications on the topic of standardisation.

At the same time, we were happy to share with you our member survey outputs as well as an update on our business plan and our plans for the future including our recently established Residential Hub Leaders Group.

Welcome & Introductions – Buildoffsite

Neil Bills, Ideal Standard – Neil focused his presentation on their market position, innovations and digital

Mark Graham, Premier Modular – Education Project of the Year winner

Beaver Road Primary School is one of 8 schools delivered in partnership with ISG for Manchester City Council over a period of 18 months.

Andy Smith, Caledonian – Infrastructure Project of the Year winner

Caledonian have recently been awarded Infrastructure Project of the Year for works at Hinkley point C working with Laing O’Rourke and EDF energy. Described as the largest hotel built since Euro Disney Andy outlined what went into making this an award winning project that was delivered during 2018 and what projects are now flowing through the factory.

John Handscomb, Kier – Offsite Pioneer of the Year winner

Kier’s entry for the ‘Offsite Pioneer of the Year’ award captures their determination to give strategic priority to modern methods of construction, embracing offsite technology to overcome specific challenges and achieve higher levels of performance and efficiency. Throughout 2018 they consolidated their offsite strategy, as well as improving communication, offsite marketing and collaboration across the business.

Nick Davidge, ilke Homes – Best use of volumetric technology

Nick outlined the benefits of fully volumetric solutions as showcased at the Gateshead Innovation Village with Home Group. Ilke Homes designs, manufactures and installs full volumetric homes and have taken offsite activity to the furthest level believed to be possible through their volumetric technology. ilke Homes’ design approach creates a portfolio of house types that enables both traditional and contemporary aesthetics to be achieved, delivers exemplary performance and quality through efficient and consistent production in their factory.

Buildoffsite – the Future an update on our business plan and member survey outputs

Clare Price, BSI Group – The Role of standards in offsite construction

Reporting on the research findings, the value of engagement in the standardisation process, and key developments. Full BSI report can be found here

*As requested you can find the RICS paper on Modern Methods of Construction here

 

Rail Overbuild Guide Workshop

23 April 2019 , Transport for London, 55 Broadway, St. James' Park

An opportunity for all contributors to the rail overbuild guide to meet and discuss the various chapters/strands, to ensure we are addressing what key stakeholders require.

1pm – 3pm

Agenda

Notes

CIRIA Spring networking drinks reception

02 April 2019 , Butchers Hook & Cleaver 61 W Smithfield, EC1A 9DY

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Join CIRIA members and staff for a Spring networking drinks reception in central London

2 April 2019

17:00 – 20:00

Our parent organisation, CIRIA, has kindly extended an invitation to Buildoffsite members to join this not to be missed networking drinks reception. This is a great opportunity to expand your network and meet like-minded industry peers at a great central London location. You can find more details of this member exclusive event on CIRIA’s website.

If you wish to participate please register here.

*Please note this is a member only event

BOPAS Breakfast Briefing

26 March 2019 , Lloyd's Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London,  EC3M 4BS

This event is now fully booked due to popular demand. Next breakfast briefing will be held in May. Further details to be announced.

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs

This breakfast briefing will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building

Register here

BOPAS Lunchtime Briefing

26 March 2019 , Lloyd's Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London,  EC3M 4BS

This event is now fully booked due to popular demand.

Further dates to be added throughout the year.

The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers that non-traditional products or technologies or systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to constructors, designers, manufacturers as well as project management designers and project management manufacturers. It provides confirmation that new properties, built using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means to manage financial and construction risk and is proving to be of particular interest to private purchasers requiring a mortgage, institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs

This lunchtime briefing will provide an overview of BOPAS Certification and its role in supporting innovative forms of house-building

Register here

Residential Hub event

19 March 2019 , 226 Church Road, Willesden London, United Kingdom NW10 9NR

The event covered the cost of offsite manufactured solutions for the residential sector both from a client and supply chain perspective. Is offsite cost effective & are clients ready to use more offsite to increase capacity?

This residential hub event looked at how the offsite sector is addressing cost, are clients getting value for money and what capacity is there in the sector to deliver a predictable housing supply to market that gives confidence to clients.

Key messages:

“Before you start designing think about your customer and what they want”

“Most traditional contracts end up 10% more in cost than offsite”

“Cost certainty is fundamental in modular and MMC”

“In reviewing the traditional construction triangle of time, cost & quality you start to understand the reasons for success and that offsite is not a one size fits all”

“Engagement with client in the beginning and throughout the process is key”

3 challenges the offsite sector faces:

  1. Procurement – manufacturers need to put themselves in the position of the client and come up with a solution to show the whole product including groundwork and foundations. They need to take the principal contractor type role
  2. Risk Profile – traditional route: if the contractor goes out of business there are other solutions available to the client. The offsite sector needs to collaborate in order to increase the risk profile and win client’s trust. Thinking has to go into providing other options and solutions if things don’t go as initially planned – there needs to be a consistency in approach.
  3. Speed of the build – it is seen as an advantage; however MMC providers need to think about what that really means and think in capital cost terms

What is the industry going to look like in 5 & 10 years time?

  • 5 years – There is a need for a massive increase in the rate of house building. We are going to see a big increase in the level of construction activity in housing by a substantial increase in offsite
  • 5 years – consistent delivery; 10 years time – more automation and greater efficiency
  • 5 years – a lot more will have changed. We will see the successful large brands in strategic partnerships
  • 5 years – planning and procurement will still remain challenges; 10 years – different planning and procurement environment
  • 5 years – market will have settled down and standardized

Presentations:

Dennis Seal, Buildoffsite – Welcome & Introductions

Tom Eshelby, Stelling Properties –  How can a vertically integrated developer, builder and off-site manufacturer best control their costs, supply chain and quality in the early days of establishing the business?

Andrew Goodwin, B+K Structures – highlighted how their product range can meet current regulations and deliver cost effective solutions to clients.

David Butler, UKAA & Mark Woodrow, BTR Partners – Challenges for the supply chain in meeting the demands of the Build To Rent Sector over the next 3-5 years. Articulated the scale of the opportunity and the barriers to be overcome to meet the ambitions of all parties.

Terry Mundy, Lloyd’s Register & Jeff Maxted, BLP – Quality
product will set materials and build systems apart from each other so what part will BOPAS play in ensuring future product is accredited to the right standards and why BOPAS.

Dennis Seal, Buildoffsite – Indicative Cost Analysis – What is a CSA? Why do we need one? How does it work? Who uses them?

Graeme O’Doherty, The McAvoy Group – How important is it that you get the cost thresholds right for your product range and what percentage of your product is manufactured in the factory, what does this look like on our indicative CSA. What do clients want from you most when discussing the cost of supply and how are you able to respond.

Tom Oliver, ilke Homes – Cost Summary Analysis for Modular

Jon Wardle, AMCM – What role can Construction and project managers play in delivering competitive offsite housing solutions? How do you balance quality against cost? What examples do you have to support this?

Alex Hyams, Alinea Consulting – What are the key drivers behind the cost of offsite housing product? What should our members look out for when selling or buying product? What part does quality play in selecting product? Why doesn’t offsite providers like tendering for work?

Bernard Williams, International Facilities & Property Information – Cost Comparator – How can clients be sure offsite provides the best solution and how can offsite solutions be compared to traditional methods. Why is offsite more expensive than traditional? (is it really or is the comparison between traditional methods and offsite construction biased)

 

Direction Group Dinner & Meeting

26 - 27 February 2019 , Location: Trimble Solutions (UK) Ltd. Trimble House, Gelderd Road, Morley, Leeds LS27 7JP

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27th February 

Buildoffsite Direction Group meeting

The event covered overviews of digital applications and case studies / speakers describing Digital in Use.

Welcome & Agenda, Buildoffsite

Craig Sewell, CoBuilder & Andrew Gamblen, Willmott Dixon

Following the Government Mandate of BIM Level 2 in 2016 there has been an explosion in the Construction Sector of technology and software to help modernise and make the sector more efficient. This presentation looked at the background of Digital Construction, examples of where technology has proved successful on and off-site, and how coBuilder can help provide the right information at the end of the project.

Graeme Jones, C-Probe and Royston Young, DASYS

C-Probe has, for over 20 years, monitored the performance of structures using its embedded sensors and open network electronic management systems interrogated and remotely controlled through internet access. These have developed to provide online service life tracking with add-on IoT options that can be incorporated into precast concrete elements for future resilience management. Teaming-up with Design Automation Systems the presentation discussed how past success is emerging to integrate digital design solutions into the BIM environment to assess, control and prevent infrastructure degradation to assure future sustainability.

Richard Kelly, Building Smart

This presentation looked at how digital transformation is enabling offsite by examining processes and examples from case study.

Craig Sewell, coBuilder and Gillian Smith, CADENAS

Presentation looked at how CADENAS, the market leaders in object digitalisation for the mechanical/engineering sector, have adopted the combined CADENAS/coBuilder solution for Wieneberger and TATA steel and how utilising complex product configurators, could provide a perfect solution for many Buildoffsite members.

Residential Hub event at Mitsubishi Electric

07 February 2019 , MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC, TRAVELLERS LANE, HATFIELD, HERTS, A10 8XB

                                                                

The benefit and impact of the supply chain on whole life costs and the predictability of offsite housing supply

The Residential sector is under pressure once again as there is a growing number of reports that are suggesting that in 2019 we are going to be building less homes than ever.

With government figures suggesting that we completed 220,000 homes last year and in light of the above does this mean that housing output is now in decline. If it is then “Why” and what can be done to alleviate the pressure.

The Residential Hub meeting on the 7th February at Mitsubishi Electric looked at the growing demand from investors as well as home owners who are looking to safeguard the longevity of their investments.

Dennis Seal, Buildoffsite

What is happening in the market sector?

Lack of homes, Brexit uncertainty and prospective interest rate rises negatively impact the volume of housing. However the positive side of this is that sales growth will slightly increase as house prices flatten.

What this means for offsite:

  • Next 5 years could see a move away from the conventional way of building homes
  • Market will be moving away from the standardised housing projects
  • It will be cheaper to buy homes
  • Millennials will want to have a say in how houses will be built

Trevor Clements, Hertfordshire Building Control: Fast Track Approval for Fast Track Construction

We need to contribute to efforts of building safe, durable and energy efficient buildings amid government’s increasing support for the sector.

Is offsite a risky business?

60 years on many of the buildings exist and some of them with listing status.

  • The performance and aesthetic of buildings have undergone massive improvement
  • The average new house put together in a factory environment is going to have a much better quality than one in a typical site building environment.
  • Performance gap: Offsite construction can only help in this regard
  • Fast track but not short cut

Stuart Bell, Mitsubishi Electric: Call to other members to open up discussions on early delivery and design of M&E with reference to supply chain and impact on whole life costs.

  • The quality, safety and design of manufacturing facility reflects offsite construction methodology
  • We need to add value to the sector and drive forward this type of solutions

*presentation to be added in due course

Joanne Booth, Lucideon The benefit of product testing on the supply chain and predictability of offsite housing supply.

Adrian Hall & Matthew Cockerill, JCB: How a well-established company is bringing a new perspective to offsite; including reference to the supply chain and whole life costs of approach.

Changing construction industry:

  • As processes change in terms of the way buildings come to market we have got to have a machine that can be used by contractors to facilitate that process

Massive skills gap:

  • Building houses in a traditional way is not going to deliver exponential growth. If we carry on doing what we have done the gap between supply and demand will get bigger. We have to embrace the change and Buildoffsite will allow us to satisfy the demands of the market.

Paul Foulkes, WAGO: With a focus on collaboration with other members including Mitsubishi Electric and how the supply chain is a key factor including how they have developed new working relationships.

David Whorwood & Gary Bright, Ideal lifts:

Challenging traditional thinking and disrupt the processes and complexities of conventional bespoke lift shaft construction on offsite projects.  How ongoing collaboration with other members and within the supply chain can simplify and improve the design, processes, management and safety of lift design, installation and maintenance.

*presentation to be added in due course

Charles Naud, Action Sustainability

Supply Chain School & Offsite management school are an industry led initiative aimed at building your understanding of offsite. They provide you with FREE practical support in the form of CPD accredited e-learning modules and training workshops, tailored self-assessment tools and action plans, bench-marking tools, networking opportunities and access to thousands of online resources. They would like input from the sector to help develop training programme and build capacity to train the whole industry on offsite. If you would like more information or to discuss further contact charles.naud@actionsustainability.com

Panel Debate – Picking up on the theme and speaker sessions the panel discussed the importance of the supply chain in offsite delivery, why clients should engage with them more to overcome design and cost barriers and why we should focus more on the whole life costs of the products we install to protect future budgets and expenditure. 

  • Offsite is the only solution to the housing crisis – to be successful we need to make sure we build durability and quality in what we build.
  • With offsite solution gaining proper momentum, collaboration between manufacturers and supply chain needs further encouragement.
  • We need to explain the benefits of offsite and what it can deliver – it is so much more than timber frame. There is a confidence issue with people as they automatically link offsite with poor quality, lack of mortgage. Offsite is not what it was before – it delivers a very different end product. Most offsite support is seen in the younger generation as they are being exposed to technology.
  • Millennials will make the decision – they want a product where they can have some say. Modular homes are differentiated by the ability to be customised. Adaptability in offsite needs to be looked at the same way we look at quality.

Supply Chain Workshop & Anglian Water Tour

31 January 2019 , Anglian Water Thorpe Wood House

                                                              

The day combines an optional site visit at 8am followed by the workshop starting at 10.45am.

Site visit – Register Here

Meeting – Register Here

Transforming the Housing Technology Mindset with George Clarke

04 December 2018 , Mitsubishi Electric, Travellers Lane, Hatfield, Herts, A10 8XB

Sharing knowledge to change perspectives on building modern homes

Venue: Mitsubishi Electric, Travellers Lane, Hatfield, Herts, A10 8XB

Registration: 09:30

Meeting Start: 10:00

Meeting Close: 14:00

Join us on the 4th December for a special event with George Clarke, TV presenter, visionary architect, campaigner and educator. We will be discussing the need to de-carbonise heating and looking at how the electrification of heating is the answer to meeting the Government’s climate change targets.

In the UK we spend £32 billion a year on heating alone and it accounts for around a third of our greenhouse gas emissions. We need to change the way we produce and consume heat or we will not meet our long-term climate change targets. To get there, we are going to have to change the way we generate, distribute and use heat in buildings and industry.

 

CLICK HERE NOW TO BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE*

As a market leader in commercial and domestic renewable solutions, Mitsubishi Electric is a pioneer in the development of renewable heat pump technology that offers improved energy efficiency and meets tough legislation. Heat pump technology has been used around the world for decades and Mitsubishi Electric has developed this technology to produce Ecodan – one of the most advanced, efficient heating systems available today.

*Please note: Spaces for this event are limited and therefore will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

 

Water Hub workshop at the Manufacturing Technology Centre

07 November 2018 , MTC (Coventry), MTC Limited, Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9JU

    

Water Hub Workshop and MTC Tour

MTC (Coventry), MTC Limited , Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9JU

The workshop focused on delivering the 2025 construction targets by examining the main challenges and drivers in the water sector from both a supply chain and water company perspective. 

All members can access the post workshop notes and presentations here

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Key issues for UK construction

01 November 2018 , Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3LS

Key issues for UK construction

Central London

Meeting Start: 08.00

Meeting End: 13.30

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Direction Group Dinner and Meeting

30 - 31 October 2018 , Laing O'Rourke, Explore Industrial Park, Explore way (off A619) Steetley, Worksop S80 3DT

Venue: Laing O’Rourke, Explore Industrial Park, Explore way (off A619) Steetley, Worksop S80 3DT

Demystifying offsite for residential

Exploring the potential of alternative offsite technologies and how to put them into practice. Learn about opportunities and limitations of offsite : design manufacturing and construction)

A workshop session designed for Social Landlords & small residential developers.

Speakers: McAvoyIlkeCaledonianRotherham Metropolitan Borough Council Elements Europe and Laing O’Rourke.

Presentations

Home builders 2020 – who are the players and innovators?

03 October 2018 , The National Composites Centre, Bristol BS16 7FS

    

The impact and value of using offsite construction for low rise building such as garden towns, villages and cities and larger scale developments. 

The gap between supply and demand currently sits somewhere between 100k and 150k homes pa. How can offsite solutions capture all of, if not the lions share, of this requirement.

Support for the offsite sector has grown considerably over the past 12 months and at a disproportionate rate compared to previous years where growth was being achieved at a steady, if not at times frustrating, pace. Buildoffsite is working with its members (from all walks of the industry) to help the sector understand its attributes and limitations at the same time as enabling both the public and private sectors to enter the market –  not only well prepared and well informed, but with a network of like minded organisations who can support them in the process.

Please note that Bristol Temple Meads station is closed. Please use either Bristol Parkway or Yate.

The address for the venue is as follows and there is plenty of parking

National Composites Centre
Feynman Way Central,
Bristol & Bath Science Park,
Emersons Green,
Bristol,
BS16 7FS

Click here for a map

Final agenda

Members can register here

Non members can register here for a fee of £80.00

For further information please contact info@buildoffsite.com

Water Hub Meeting and Factory Visit

12 September 2018 , Nomenca, Warrington

 

Site visit commences at 8.00, please arrive in plenty of time for the tour to start on time.

Site: Winsford WwTW, Wades Lane, off Bradford, Winsford, CW7 2PB

This is a LiMA site where Nomenca’s Off Site Build Team have provided dosing equipment.

You will need to bring your own PPE as there are no spares available.

If any of you are planning to miss the site visit, please join me at the hotel for coffee where I will be from 9.00am, details below.

We shall continue at The Macdonald Portal Hotel, arriving by 10am for morning coffee with the meeting commencing at 10.30.

Cobblers Cross Lane, Tarporley CW6 0DJ

Agenda

Don’t forget that the purpose of the day is effective communications so please come prepared to share in discussions. We also want to hear your good news stories which we’re hoping will become a regular feature and which we will be promoting within the Buildoffsite newsletter.

WATER HUB WORKSHOP AGENDA 12th September 2018

RESI Convention 2018 (attendee costs apply)

12 - 14 September 2018 , Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales

Buildoffsite Director Tim Hall joins line up at RESI Convention 2018. He will be speaking on 13th September.

Buildoffsite Director Tim Hall, Shaun Tate of Mace and Paul Rogers of Whittham Cox are the latest confirmed speakers at RESI Convention 2018.

The trio of construction experts will take part in the ‘Construction and Delivery’ stream of masterclasses and ‘ask the expert’ sessions on day two of the convention, which will take place from 12-14 September at Celtic Manor in Wales.

https://www.propertyweek.com/events/three-construction-experts-join-panel-for-resi-2018/5098217.article

Member to member event hosted by Arup

06 September 2018 , ARUP, 8 Fitzroy St, Bloomsbury, London W1T 4BQ

Member to Member Event

Time: 2.00pm – 6.00pm followed by a drinks reception

Purpose: A once a year opportunity for the Membership to come together to contribute to the scrutiny and development of the Buildoffsite work-programme, to share their experiences of the big issues that are influencing the opportunities and challenges for the offsite sector in the UK market and to make those all important business contacts.

The afternoons discussions to include:

Overview of the prospects for the UK Construction Industry and the implications for Offsite

Introducing the Buildoffsite Forum members

Review from Tim Hall on activities, outcomes and opportunities

Opportunities for members to influence the future Direction of the Buildoffsite Work-programme

Networking and Discussion

If you would also like to bring a guest please advise of their contact details for us to register accordingly

Members can register here

Direction Group Meeting hosted by Polypipe.

29 August 2018 , Hosted by Polypipe in Aylesford

 

Raising our Game in the Manufacturing Supply Chain

Kindly hosted by Polypipe at their offices in Aylesford.

Agenda – Wednesday 29 August 2018.

Please note that parking at Polypipe is severely restricted and so they have kindly arranged a shuttle from the Holiday Inn, directions here

08:30: Register at Holiday Inn – London Rd, Wrotham Heath, Sevenoaks TN15 7RS Bacon rolls / tea / coffee
09:15: Transport to Polypipe
10:00: Welcome and introductions – Glen Sabin, Polypipe
10:05: Brief overview of the theme for the Direction Group – Tim Hall, Buildoffsite

11.10: Executive Director update including:

  • Buildoffsite’s current work programme
  • Buildoffsite Forum
  • New members
  • International engagement
  • Hub updates

11.30: Presentation on opportunities for collaborative Research Funding

11.50: A proposed Buildoffsite  led effort on Digitally Enabled Manufacturing

12.10: Events Programme (Paper to be tabled)

  • Member to member event, ARUP, London – 6 September
  • Residential hub event, National Composite Centre, Bristol – 13 September
  • Next Direction Group dinner and meeting, Laing O’Rourke, Steetley – 29-30 October
  • Offsite construction show – 20/21 November
  • Masterclass Session (eg C-Probe)

12.30: Member Feedback Session

13.00: Close followed by networking and lunch

14.00: Polypipe factory tour (approx. 1 hour)

Polypipe’s address is, Polypipe, Aylesford, New Hythe Business Park, College Rd, New Hythe ME20 7PJ.

Direction Group Meetings are also an opportunity for Members to share their views on topics that matter most to them. If you have any suggestions for matters that should be addressed then do please send the details to anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

If you require overnight accommodation on the 28 August, we will be staying at the Holiday Inn Maidstone – Sevenoaks, London Road, Wrotham Heath, Kent, Sevenoaks, TN15 7RS. If you require a hotel room please contact them directly quoting “Polypipe” for a corporate rate of £81 bed and breakfast.  Telephone number: 0871 942 9054 website: http://www.himaidstonehotel.co.uk/Please note: If you drive to and stay at the Holiday Inn you need to advise the hotel reception of your vehicle registration etc, they have ‘Parking Eye’ cameras and you will get a penalty through the post if you don’t register your vehicle with the hotel.

Members can register here

Direction Group Dinner

28 August 2018 , Hosted by Buildoffsite in Aylesford

Prior to our Direction Group, a Members’ Dinner will take place on the evening of Tuesday 28 August at The Farm House, 97-99 High St, West Malling ME19 6NA at 7.30pm.

Please note that parking at the restaurant is severely restricted and so Polypipe have kindly arranged a shuttle to it from Holiday Inn, Maidstone, at 7.00 pm.

If you require overnight accommodation on the 28 August, we will be staying at the Holiday Inn Maidstone – Sevenoaks, London Road, Wrotham Heath, Kent, Sevenoaks, TN15 7RS. If you require a hotel room please contact them directly quoting “Polypipe” for a corporate rate of £81 bed and breakfast.  Telephone number: 0871 942 9054 website: http://www.himaidstonehotel.co.uk/ Please note: If you drive to and stay at the Holiday Inn you need to advise the hotel reception of your vehicle registration etc, they have ‘Parking Eye’ cameras and you will get a penalty through the post if you don’t register your vehicle with the hotel.

Members can register here

New Offsite Opportunity for Rotherham Metropolitan District Council

24 August 2018 , John Smith’s Room at Rotherham Town Hall, The Crofts, Moorgate Street, Rotherham, S60 2TH

 

 

 

Buildoffsite is working with Rotherham  Metropolitan District Council to engage the offsite construction community and attend a Meet the Buyer Event on the 24th August.

9.30              Registration (Lindsey Castle)

10.00            Welcome Jane Davies, Strategic Housing & Development Manager

10.20            Working with Build Off Site: Wendy Foster, Social Housing Officer/Fareita Udoh, Transition Manager

10.25            Scheme outlines: Nick Ward, Housing Development Manager/Wendy Foster, Social Housing Officer

10.40            Procurement Process: Clair Brierley, Category Manager – Corporate Procurement Service

11.00            General questions to the Panel

  • Clair Brierley (procurement)
  • Dave Scholey (technical and spec)
  • Nick Ward (bungalows)
  • Wendy, (pods)

11.40            Networking

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The Rail Overbuild Guide Progress Review

19 July 2018 , WSP, 70 Chancery Lane, London, WC2A 1AF

                                

A follow up to the well attended meeting on Building Above Railway Lines last year. WSP and Buildoffsite will be sharing progress on the Overbuild Guide, initiated in 2017.

At WSP

The Agenda is as follows

10:00 Welcome – Nigel Fraser, Buildoffsite

10:05 Introductions – All

10:15 Summary of progress to date – Bill Price, WSP

– Out of Thin Air report published

– Initial Buildoffsite workshop conclusions

– Outline of what we want to do

– Information gathered to date

10:30 How can we make the transfer deck / building structure & services interfaces configurable and flexible? – All

11:00 What are the key characteristics that we need to identify and quantify for a typical 12 storey building using different construction systems? – All

11:30 Learning for motorway overbuild (e.g. for Heathrow expansion) – All

11:45 Next steps – Bill Price

12:00 Close

Members can register here.

For more information please contact info@buildoffsite.com

BOPAS Breakfast Briefing

11 July 2018 , Lloyd's Register, 71 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 4BS

Time                       08.30hrs – 10.30hrs

Context:
The Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme (BOPAS) has been developed by Lloyd’s Register, BuildingLifePlans (BLP), Buildoffsite, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, The Council of Mortgage Lenders and The Building Society Association to provide assurance to the lending community and valuers, that non-traditional systems of construction can be used in new house-building with total confidence and traceability, with the option of insurance cover to provide additional certainty.

BOPAS certification is available to designers manufacturers and constructors and will provide confirmation that properties, constructed using non-traditional forms of construction, will be sufficiently durable to support loans over a period of not less than 60 years. The availability of a BOPAS certification is a recognised means of managing financial and construction risk and serves as a primary gateway to mortgage finance across the sectors including institutional investors in new public and private sector housing developments, and client groups including RSLs and LAs.

Programme:

08.00                      Registration & coffee and breakfast

08.30                      Introduction and overview of current Government initiatives in the Offsite sector–

Professor Nick Whitehouse

08.50                      The BOPAS Scheme:

– Context and benefits

-Accreditation process and database – Terry Mundy, Lloyd’s Register

-Durability assessment process

-Update on registrations – Jeff Maxted, BLP

09.30                      Accreditation awards to organisations who have successfully completed the BOPAS process

09.40                      A manufacturers perspective of the BOPAS process – Top Hat Industries

09.45                      Q&A and Discussion

10.00                      Refreshments and networking

10.30                      Close

 

To register please click here

For directions please click here

If you have any queries please contact Buildoffsite at info@buildoffsite.com

Water Hub workshop at the Northumbrian Water Innovations Festival

10 July 2018 , Northumbrian Water

        

The Workshop has been timed to coincide with the Northumbrian Water Innovations Festival, which is being held from 9th – 13th July and all previous Water Hub attendees should receive an invitation to the festival directly from Northumbrian Water.

The Festival in its second year is a truly unique event, taking 12 societal and environmental problems and applying design thinking techniques to try to solve them in five action packed days. Week beginning  Monday 9th to the 13th July 2018.

The focus of the Buildoffsite Water hub workshop will be Efficiencies and the event is open to Buildoffsite Members and invited guests.

Agenda to follow.

Members can register here

Non-members please email

Residential Hub Event, Height of Design:

04 July 2018 , Liverpool

Using offsite manufactured solutions to deliver medium and high rise residential accommodation is now more popular than ever,  in particular for the leading developers within the UK.

With the increase in the Build to rent market forecast to continue now is a good time to invest in quality efficient and desirable accommodation.

Outside of London there is a perception that the opportunity for this type of construction is limited but as will become evident from our next residential hub meeting this may not be the case.

Liverpool presents a fantastic opportunity to showcase the use of modern methods of construction and deliver homes not only at scale but well designed and configured in the process.

Taking the “ Height of Design “ approach has the potential to add significant benefits to the landscape in and around Liverpool, creating a positive and long term legacy in its regeneration.

Buildoffsite Residential Hub has assembled an outstanding list of experienced contractors, manufacturers and suppliers to present details about the schemes that they have completed, their experiences on the way and the partnerships that have led them or are leading them to undertake some of the UK’s most iconic housing led schemes delivered to date.

Prepare to be impressed by the scale and ingenuity of the market and how far we have come in a relatively short space of time then consider how you could participate, become more involved in the sector or benefit from the extensive networking opportunity that the Buildoffsite Residential Hub event can offer its members.

Click here for the Event Agenda

Members can register here

For non-members there is a fee of £78.55 per place and you can register here.

Address: Liverpool Business SchoolRedmonds Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L3 5UG. Directions can be found on their website here.

Please note that Liverpool Lime Street Station will be closed on the 4th of July. The closest rail station is Liverpool Central and you can also travel to Parkway and then get a bus. More information ca be found at National Rail

A member’s recommendation for where to stay is the Nadler Hotel, nearby and reasonable, Click here for more.

Direction Group Meeting Theme – M+E solutions

20 June 2018 , NG Bailey Offsite Manufacture, Park 26, Kingsmark Freeway, Oakenshaw, Bradford BD12 7HW

NG Bailey are kindly hosting this Direction meeting.  9.30am – 1.00pm followed by a tour of their offsite manufacture facilities.

Direction Group Meetings are also an opportunity for Members to share their views on topics that matter most to them. If you have any suggestions for matters that should be addressed then do please let us have the details here: anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

Direction Group Meeting agenda

Wednesday 20 June 2018, NG Bailey, Bradford

Theme: M+E solutions

09.30: Registration and Networking

10.00: Welcome and Introductions

10.10: Presentations to include:

  • NG Bailey
  • B+K Structures –prefabricated MEP solutions

10.55: Allan Griffin – The AMRC: Where Construction meets Manufacturing

11.10: Buildoffsite collaboration with BESA (then B&ES) to produce “An Offsite Guide for the Building and Engineering Services Sector”https://www.buildoffsite.com/content/uploads/2016/01/OffsiteGuide.pdf

11.20: Buildoffsite Forum

11.40: HS2 and MEP, Kier – tbc

12.00: Communications and Events

  • Offsite construction show
  • Hub updates
  • Newsletter
  • Collaboration with other organisations (HCA, Offsite School, Housing Forum…)
  • ICE

12.30: Member Feedback Session

13.00: Close followed by networking and lunch

14.00: NG Bailey factory tour

15.00: Close

Members can register here. Non-members please contact Anna Whiting on the address above.

Pre Direction Group Dinner

19 June 2018 , Hosted by Buildoffsite in Bradford

A Members’ Dinner will take place on the evening of Tuesday 19 June at the Massimo Italian restaurant located in the Gomersal Hotel, BD19 4LJ at 7.30pm.

Members can book their place here.

Non-members please contact anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

If you require overnight accommodation on the 19 June, we will be staying at the Gomersal Park Hotel & Dream Spa, Moor Lane, Gomersal, West Yorkshire, BD19 4LJ. If you require a hotel room please contact them directly quoting “NG Bailey” for a corporate rate of £79 bed and breakfast.  Telephone number (0)1274 869 386 email reservations@gomersalparkhotel.com

Irish Embassy Event London Housing-What Next

03 May 2018 , Irish Embassy, 17 Grosvenor Place, Belgravia, London SW1X 7HR

London Housing – What Next?

Time: 3.45pm – 7.00pm

An invitation only high level knowledge and networking session jointly presented by Buildoffsite, Enterprise Ireland and Invest Northern Ireland. Hosted by Ambassador Adrian O’Neill

 Rising to the challenge

The population of London is growing at a rate unseen for more than 70 years. There is already a significant shortage of decent, affordable homes and the situation is deteriorating. The London Mayor has called for an annual programme to construct 66,000 new homes against the current record programme of round 46,000 and for 60% of these to be affordable. The big questions for this session are how can the industry respond to the challenge and how can offsite construction methods contribute to the delivery of a step-change increase in new homes across all tenure types?

There will be a welcome by His Excellency Mr Adrian O’Neill, Ambassador of Ireland

To register your interest please email anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

Rail Hub and HS2 Workshop

27 - 27 April 2018 , CIRIA,Griffin Court 15 Long Lane London, EC1A 9PN

Open to members and non members

HS2 Limited, a member of Buildoffsite, has asked us to help them explore new ideas and address some challenges in relation to viaduct designs. To this end we shall hold a workshop to connect HS2 with potential supply chain members and develop a collaborative approach to help delivering 21st century designs for the viaducts required by the high speed line.

The workshop will be looking for ideas that can address the aesthetic, durability, programme and whole life cost aspects, in addition to the need for safety and buildability. Four viaducts will be used as examples in the workshop to highlight the challenges that the HS2 team is facing and to help the supply chain to think how they can better support HS2’s expectations. They will also provide insight into how HS2 may assess and compare options.

The event is open to all potential suppliers of viaduct construction systems, including concrete, steel and composites, whether they be members of Buildoffsite or not. With limited space at the venue we may need to limit attendance to one person per organisation: If you would like to register multiple people; please ensure the lead person is clearly identified.

For more information please contact kate.abley@buildoffsite.com  or phone Kate on 020 7549 3306

Buildoffsite Rail Hub General Meeting 26th April 1pm-5pm 

26 April 2018 , CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane London, EC1A 9PN  

CIRIA, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane
London, EC1A 9PN  

All members are invited, (room capacity permitting).

The next Buildoffsite Rail Hub Meeting will be held on the 26th of April. At it we will present the latest Buildoffsite DfMA guide for Bridges and Viaducts produced with input from the group. We will also look at what we can do to support the London Underground Step Free Access Programme and how offsite can help deliver the vision outlined in the WSP report “Out of Thin Air, building above London’s rail tracks”. It will be a very interactive session, looking for ways of helping members  to collaborate to offer greater client value. Spaces are limited so we advise prompt booking to ensure a place.

Members please book here.

Non members please contact Kate Abley

For more information call Kate on 020 7549 3306

Student Accommodation & Direction Group Meeting

12 April 2018 , Newcastle University

The next Buildoffsite Direction Group Meeting is taking place on Thursday 12 April at Newcastle University, Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, Newcastle, NE1 8QB

Theme : University Estates and Student Accommodation

10.00 – 14.00 followed by a tour of the CIMC student accommodation which was delivered utilising offsite manufactured ‘modules’

Agenda as follows:

09.30:  Registration and Networking

10.00:  Welcome and Introductions

10.10:   Presentations to include:

  • Rachel Davis, Premier Interlink
  • Peter Boundy, Kier
  • Paul Bandeen, Newcastle University

11.10:  Construction Leadership Council Update – Construction sector deal

11.40:  Digital futures overview – examples of digital in use – Peter Foster, CoBuilder & Garry Fannon, Willmott Dixon

12.00: Communications and Events

  • Offsite Construction Show
  • Newsletter
  • Collaboration with other organisations (HCA, Offsite School, Housing Forum…)

12.30: Member Feedback Session

13.00: Close followed by Networking and Lunch

14.00: A visit to the CIMC student accommodation which was delivered utilising manufactured ‘modules’

 

 REGISTER HERE

 

A Member’s Dinner will take place on the evening of 11 April for those who will be staying overnight. The dinner will take place at Cote, 120-122 Grainger Street, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 5AF from 7.30pm and we hope that as many members as possible will be able to join us.

If you plan to stay over please find below recommended hotels:

Motel One Newcastle or search at newcastlegateshead.com

For those involved with or interested in the Housing/Residential Hub, please note that there is a Hub session from 14.00 to 19.00 on Wednesday 11th April.

Please register separately for this Housing/Residential Hub event on the 11th April here

https://www.buildoffsite.com

Newcastle Residential Hub (& Opt in Direction Group Dinner)

11 April 2018 , Newcastle University

           

  Enabling Housing Delivery 

How pre-manufactured homes are being used to increase housing supply.

Influential speakers, engaging content and excellent networking opportunities, this event is essential for anyone involved in UK housing, off-site manufacturing, developing, purchasing and procurement.

Newcastle University, Barbara Strang Teaching Centre, Newcastle, NE1 8QB on 11th April

  • 14:00 Registrations
  • 14:15  Welcome
  • 14:25  Buildoffsite Housing Hub
  • 14:45  Brian Ham, Home Group – Capabilities and guiding principles for selecting offsite solutions
  • 15:00  Speaker to be announced
  • 15:15   Brendan Geraghty, GTA – Creating more homes using good design solutions that suit offsite
  • 15:30  Michael O’Doherty, One Public Estate – Opportunities & challenges of manufactured housing
  • 15:45  Afternoon Tea & Networking
  • 16:30  Political overview
  • 16:45  Panel Debate theme – Collaboration. Encouraging & exploring Buildoffsite’s role as enabler of collaborative projects through Innovate UK & the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
  • 17:15  Open Discussion
  • 17:45  Other Business
  • 18:00 Drinks and Networking
  • 19:30 Dinner (£30 per head for dinner to non-members)

Panellists to be announced shortly

To register for the event please click here

 

For more information on this event please contact nathalie.quinn@buildoffsite.com

Raising the bar for offsite housing-BRE Event

26 March 2018 , BRE, Bucknalls Lane, Watford. WD25 9NH

26 April 2018
BRE, Bucknalls Lane, Watford. WD25 9NH
FREE to attend

Quality and performance of offsite housing: a consultation on an assessment methodology

Details:

This free workshop will explore the wider context of UK offsite housing construction and its place in the national response to the housing challenge. The session will cover the standards, assessment methods & schemes operating to assure offsite quality, durability and performance of components and systems. The program includes the work of MHCLG’s MMC Working Group and will inform discussion about delivering client, customer and insurer confidence in offsite enabled housing.

To register as a delegate please visit BRE here

Housing Hub Meeting: Procurement

14 March 2018

12.30pm – 5pm Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge

At the request of Local Authorities, Housing Associations and developers in the Eastern region Buildoffsite will lead a workshop session on procurement specifically for offsite construction in the housing sector.
Influential speakers, engaging content and an opportunity for organisations within the housing sector to connect and collaborate, with regional information sharing and valued speakers forming part of the knowledge transfer.

To register for this event please click here.

Agenda

12:30 Coffee & Registrations

1.15 Welcome

  • Buildoffsite Housing Hub
  • Ann Bentley, RLB/CLC
  • Mike Kimmer, Caledonian Modular
  • Mark Robinson, Trowers & Hamlins
  • Andrew Yuill, Flagship Homes

2.45 Afternoon Tea & Networking

  • Political Overview
  • Panel Debate – Procurement
  • Open Discussion
  • Other Business

5.00 Close

Moller Centre Churchill College
Storey’s Way
Cambridge
United Kingdom
CB3 0DE (SAT NAV use CB3 0DS)

 

Direction Group Meeting. Theme: Developing Skills Around Offsite Construction

28 February 2018 , Hosted by TDS at Dudley College

The next Buildoffsite Direction Group Meeting takes place on Wednesday 28 February 9:30am – 1:30pm.

With a theme of Developing Skills Around Offsite Construction it also includes a tour of Dudley Advance II.

TDS Midlands have kindly agreed to host this meeting at Dudley College of Technology.

Dudley College of Technology
The Broadway
Dudley
West Midlands
DY1 4AS

Agenda as follows:

09.30: Registration and Networking

10.00: Welcome and Introductions

10.30: Overview from TDS and Dudley College

11.00: Presentations

Kevin Arthur, Elements Europe   – Offsite Practical Skills in Practice

Kevin will be discussing the labour challenges faced within the UK Construction sector, the skills shortage the industry has and how offsite construction can assist with these challenges.  He will also focus on the specialist skills the offsite industry requires and how these differ from traditional labour skill sets.

Richard Bayliss, CITB – A new skills frontier: Why offsite is changing skills needs and how training can respond

Ian Heptonstall, Action Sustainability – Developing skills to accelerate the uptake of Offsite

Chris Barlow, Encon – FAAY- Partitioning systems. The opportunity to learn a new skill set, installing a partitioning system

12.15: The role of the professions and further education in providing skills for the offsite sector – Nick Whitehouse, Buildoffsite

12.30: Communications and events

12.40: Member feedback session

13.00: Tour (approx half an hour) Dudley College Advance II

 

Pre Direction Group Dinner

27 February 2018 , Bella Italia, Castlegate Park, Birmingham Road, Dudley, DY1 4TB

For those members staying overnight for the Direction Group Meeting on the 28th, a Members Dinner will take place on the evening of 27 February .

The dinner will take place at Bella Italia, Castlegate Park, Birmingham Road, Dudley, DY1 4TB from 7.30pm and we hope that as many Members as possible will be able to join us.

If you plan to stay over there are two recommended hotels:

The Village Hotel Dudley or telephone 01384 888830 (select option 1) To secure a corporate rate at The Village Hotel, quote ‘COR1B’ at the time of your booking. (£90 for single occupancy in a double). This cost includes breakfast, parking, wifi and use of leisure facilities.

The Copthorne Hotel:  Prices vary from £70 – £110

Any questions please contact anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com or call 0207 549 3306

Flexible Robotic Welding and Fabrication of M&E – Invitation to a Free BRE Workshop

20 February 2018 , Somerset Innovation Centre, Bridgwater, Woodlands Business Park, Bristol Road, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA6 4FJ

Time: 9.30 -12.30

The application of Robotics and automation is likely to become increasingly significant in supporting measures to improve construction industry quality, performance and productivity.

The free workshop is organised by BRE and supported by a number of Buildoffsite Members.

If you or a colleague would like to attend you can register with Kim Noonam of the BRE at kim.noonan@bre.co.uk

Delegate places are limited and registration will be on a first come first served basis.

Agenda

9.30: Welcome and Introduction, Exelin

9.45: Innovate UK’s FRAMBE and CRAFT Projects overview: Skanska

10.00: Introduction to the use of robotics for welding and fabrication of M&E: ABB

10.30: Fabricators view on the use of robotics in M&E services: Patera and Taunton Fabrications

10.45: Discussion and coffee break

11.15: Re-configurability demo: Trimble

11.30: Interactive delegate session to identify as barriers to the implementation of robotics and opportunities for the use of robotics: ABB and Exelin

12.15: Opportunities at Hinkley Point: Exelin

12.30: Business models (lease and purchase) and next steps: Exelin and BRE

R+D Tax Credits Workshop-Breakfast Briefing

07 February 2018 , Buildoffsite, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN

Breakfast Briefing Ela8

Since 2000, companies in the UK have been able to claim tax relief on certain types of Research and Development (R&D) activity. With three different schemes, the process of making a claim can be complex, so ela8 have put together this simple guide which outlines the key considerations and steps to making a successful, value adding claim and covers the following topics:

  • What is R&D relief? An overview and history of the regimes
  • Am I eligible? Determining whether you can claim
  • What costs qualify? What costs can be claimed
  • How do I claim? How the claims process works
  • Industry examples: Areas for consideration in construction
  • How can ela8 help? How we can help you claim relief

Places are free for Members of Buildoffsite.

A nominal charge of £50+VAT applies to Non-Members.

For more information and details of how to book please contact anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

Lean Workshop Breakfast Briefing

11 January 2018 , Buildoffsite, Griffin Court, 15 Long Lane, EC1A 9PN

 UK Construction Process is Broken – But it can be fixed

Location: Ciria, Long Lane, London EC1A 9PN

Time: 08.30am – 10.00am

Industry Expert: Ali Mafi of Lean Thinking Ltd                 

The Problem: Too often construction projects come in late and over budget. When did this last happen to one of your projects? Was it stressful? Was it expensive? Did those late projects use BIM, Offsite and/or the latest forms of contract?

Based on more than 15 years working with clients and contractors I can tell you that close to 80% of projects run late giving rise to stress and despondency for the individuals involved as well as additional cost, night shift and weekend working.

The Solution: In this Breakfast Briefing we will share with you a proven project delivery system. A system that will transform project delivery outcomes from 80% late to 90% ahead of time. A system/process akin to a Sat Nav that highlights twice a day the impact on the end date. It also ensures the work is carried out in the most effective and productive way and has a built in continuous learning loop. A standard transparent system (not software) of delivery that can be rolled out across all your projects with guarantee of a consistent outcome without dependence on the quality of the people.

You will hear the detail behind some incredible facts:

  • Most projects lose time at a rate close to 3 days a week – every week
  • Only a small percentage of the project delays are attributable to clients
  • Incredibly BIM compliance can have a negative impact on productivity
  • The benefits of offsite solutions can get lost when mixed with traditional construction process and the projects runs late
  • Operatives only work 30% of the time

We will demonstrate the importance of concentrating on:

  • Compressing time. Time accounts for close to 80% of the cost and over 90% of the risk. This can eliminate claims.
  • On standardising the system/process of delivery first then the product.
  • The system rather than the outcome. This kills egos, the biggest obstacle to progress in construction.

Delegate places are FREE for Members of Buildoffsite and CIRIA. 

A charge of £50 + VAT per head applies to non-members. 

For payments by credit card contact Accounts on 0207 5493303. Please contact Anna Whiting: anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

Direction Group meeting followed by Christmas lunch

13 December 2017 , Browns, Covent Garden

Meeting 10.00am-1.00pm followed by Christmas lunch, London

Theme: Digitally Accelerated Construction

Programme

09.30Registration and Networking

10.00Welcome and Introductions

10.10Fast moving Government landscape – Tim Hall, Buildoffsite

  • Autumn statement
  • Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
  • Delivering construction skills
  • Government as client – driving the productivity agenda

 

10.40: Presentations – Digitisation: Award Winning Member Projects 

Applying digital to drive enhanced client value and positive experiences, achieving design, delivery and performance excellence, skills and technology developments

    • Peter Foster, Co-Builder
    • Amador Caballero, Willmott Dixon Interiors
    • David Clark, McAvoy

11.10Digitisation: Emerging technologies and applications– Richard Fletcher, Trimble

11.30Q&A Session

12.00Buildoffsite Vision and Future Activities – Tim Hall and Nick Whitehouse, Buildoffsite

  • 12.30Communications and Events

    12.40Member Feedback Session

    13.00Close – followed by Christmas lunch and networking

To register: anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

The Buildoffsite Rail Hub invites you to review the opportunities identified by WSP for building 250,000 homes above railway lines in London.

07 December 2017 , WSP House, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF

The Buildoffsite Rail Hub invites members to review the opportunities identified by WSP for building 250,000 homes above railway lines in London.

Bill Price, Strategic Growth Director at WSP, has invited Buildoffsite members to a presentation on his report, “Out of Thin Air – Building above London’s rail lines”, as many of the sites identified could benefit from offsite delivery.

Early awareness can only help the offsite sector rise to the opportunity.

Whilst housing is a significant focus of the report it is not limited to that, with mixed use developments envisaged, and even a football stadium. This follows on from work commissioned by Network Rail and will provide members with an excellent opportunity to gain insight from one of the leading consultants in this field. It will also be a good time for members to inform WSP as to how they could add value to such projects.

The overbuild market is set to expand significantly if the intention is indeed to densify city locations in proximity to transport infrastructure. The requirement for homes in London is frequently estimated at a minimum of 50,000 per year. This represents two strands of opportunity for building offsite:

  • Firstly there is a strong need for decking of various types and configurations to suit a range of rail environments. Components could include support walls, deck slabs, infill fire protection and more traditional structures outside the active rail corridor.
  • Secondly the purpose of the deck is to create a zone for overbuilding. This is envisaged as an ideal opportunity for modular, offsite, prefabricated components. With several major projects already in the design phase this event should not be missed!

Date: 07/12/17

Time: 14:00 to 17:00

Venue: WSP House, Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1AF

To register interest (places are limited) for this event please click here

For further information email: nathalie.quinn@buildoffsite.com

Visit to the National Composites Centre

14 November 2017 , Feynman Way Central, Bristol & Bath Science Park, Emersons Green Bristol BS16 7FS

Buildoffsite Visit to the National Composites Centre

Date: Tuesday 14 November 2017

Timetable: 10.30am start with a finish at 3pm with one-one networking available until 4.30pm. A late start and an early finish is recommended to avoid the possible congestion arising from ongoing local road works.

Purpose of the visit: To introduce the work of the NCC to Buildoffsite Core Members, Associates and Participants in Buildoffsite Hubs and to provide an overview of fibre reinforced composites (FRP) current use and opportunities in Building and Civil Engineering.  The event will feature attendance from the composites supply chain to enable relationship building.  The event will be chaired and facilitated by Tim Hall assisted by the NCC.

Capacity: Up to 100 delegates

Tour of the Facility: Guided tours of the Centre will be arranged over the lunch break

Outline Programme for the day

10.00am – Registration and Networking

10.30am – Welcome to Buildoffsite from Tim Hall, Buildoffsite

10.40am – Welcome to the NCC by Alison Starr, Executive Director for Strategy and Business

10.50am – Overview of fibre reinforced (FRP) composites, their current use in the construction sector and opportunities for further exploitation

11.30am – Case Studies – David Barber, Apply Structure and Shaun Chivers, Mabey Hire

11.50am – Discussion Session

12.25pm – Briefing on the Tour

12.30pm – Buffet Networking Lunch and facility tours

2.00pm – Discussion Session

2.30pm – Wrap Up and Next Steps

3.00pm – Close, breakout available for one-one networking until 4.30pm

You can register or find out more from anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com and look at their website here: http://nccuk.com/

Direction Group meeting and dinner hosted by Legal & General

24 - 25 October 2017

 

Theme: Collaboration to Support Housing Delivery at Scale

 

Direction Group meeting dinner

24 October 2017

Dinner 7.00pm, 24th October, Busaba (upstairs private dining room), London

http://www.busaba.com/locations/busaba-shoreditch

 

Direction meeting

25 October 2017

Meeting 10.00am-1.00pm, 25 October, Legal and General, One Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA

Theme: Collaboration to Support Housing Delivery at Scale

 

To register: anna.whiting@buildoffsite.com

 

 

Encon Nevill Long & Knauf Spray Plaster Event

19 October 2017 , Encon/Nevill Long West London Units 6, 7 & 8 The Griffin Centre, Staines Road, Feltham, Middlesex TW14 0HS

When: Thursday 19th October 2017

Live demonstrations will take place at 8am and 10.30am.

 

Where: Encon/Nevill Long West London

Units 6, 7 & 8 The Griffin Centre

Staines Road

Feltham

Middlesex

TW14 0HS

Each session will include:

– Live demonstrations showing how fast, clean and efficient the system is

– The opportunity to use the spray machine and see the benefits of a premixed finish and the ease of application

– Free breakfast and refreshments for everyone who attends

– Experts will be on hand to offer advice on spray machines

Register your attendance at: www.knauf.co.uk/readymixedfinishingevents or email: WestLondonSprayDay@Encon.co.uk

THE OFFSITE CONSTRUCTION SHOW 2017

11 - 12 October 2017 , ExCeL, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock London E16 1XL

Supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS)

Our Buildoffsite Workshops and Seminars 2017

In collaboration with The Offsite Construction Show and with support from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Buildoffsite is delighted to host a Programme of Seminars and Workshops for 2017.

Featuring expert speakers drawn from across the industry, the Seminars will take place in the Buildoffsite Theatre. There is no pre-booking – sessions are free to attend, with seats available on a first come, first served basis.

The Workshops will be hosted in the Workshop Theatre, adjacent to the Buildoffsite Exhibition Stand (C52). Spaces will be limited. To attend a workshop, please register your interest in advance, by selecting the links

To see the seminars click here Buildoffsite Seminars 2017

To register for the workshops click here Buildoffsite Workshops

The 2016 Offsite Construction Show received overwhelming support from the offsite industry and the industry at last has it’s very own showcase attracting over 2,000 attendees who represented every part of the UK’s building, construction, design and engineering community, combining to make the UK’s first ever national Offsite exhibition a resounding success.

OSCS2017 will continue to build on this winning formula, and we have a great show planned.

See you there!

https://offsiteconstructionshow.co.uk/

Water Hub Digital Water Event: 22nd May 2017

22 May 2017 , Mott MacDonald, 10 Fleet Place, London EC4M 7RB

Objective: To showcase how digital technology can and is being used in the water industry

Hosted by: Mott MacDonald

Lead: Jon Rains

The agenda and presentations from the event can be found on the Water Hub Home Page.