Achieving compliance and improving performance in the built environment

Recorded: 7 December 2021 (09:30 - 16:30 UK time)

What’s this online event about?

This unique occasion brings together individuals from across the built environment to hear from industry leaders and subject experts on the key issues affecting the sector’s future. This year is one of particular flux, so we’re covering the latest news stemming from:

• The Building Safety Bill and the new Building Safety Regulator
• The Golden Thread
• Adapting ISO 9001 for the built environment sector
• The government’s strategy for transforming infrastructure performance
• The digital twin demonstrator project for climate change adaptation (CReDo)
• Construction products for the Net Zero journey
• Optimizing supply chain management with collaborative working

Who is this event for?

Organizations of any size in the built environment as well as professionals whose work relates to infrastructure, building safety and building regulations, fire safety and emergency services enforcing authorities (FRS and BCB), facilities management, auditing, certification, accreditation and compliance, insurance, procurement, manufacturing including construction products, clients/employers, principal designers, principal contractors, building control bodies, asset managers.

What will participants gain?

• The opportunity to hear comprehensive, trustworthy and current information on key issues
• Advice on where to get guidance and help with next steps

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To explore and better understand the big issues affecting your organization’s future, please watch the recording now.

Ant heads up the Built Environment Sector team at the National Standards Body. In addition to providing subject matter expertise and thought leadership he also oversees the identification of new areas of research, standardization and supporting product needs, via engagement with key stakeholders from across government and the wider sector. He also oversees the promotion of the standards portfolio to national and international marketplaces.

A Chartered building surveyor and engineer by background, he has more than 32 years’ experience working in the sector, having worked as both an enforcer, and for 16 years was the UK fire regulator and then head of technical policy for the English Building Regulations. Ant has considerable experience in working directly for UK government ministers and representing the UK at European Commission level on construction related discussions and negotiations.

Ant is a full member of the Government’s statutory Building Regulations Advisory Committee and is Immediate Past President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. 

Scott Steedman is an Executive Director of BSI Group and Director of Standards, where he is responsible for BSI’s activity as a global standards organisation and its role as the National Standards Body. A civil engineer by background, Scott spent seven years as an academic at Cambridge University before moving to industry, holding senior roles in consulting companies working on building and infrastructure projects in the UK and around the world. He joined BSI in 2012.

Scott has been Vice President (policy) for the International Standards Organisation (ISO) since January 2017. He is a former Vice President of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed CBE in 2010 for services to engineering.

Peter Caplehorn is the Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association since 2019 following five years as Deputy Chief Executive and Policy Director.  His work focuses on engaging with policy makers and industry leaders to raise the profile of the products sector and members’ businesses, grow the market and reduce regulatory risk.

Peter is a Chartered Architect with over 35 years of experience and is particularly respected for his leadership across the wider construction industry. Peter has represented the Industry Response Group, initiated by the UK Government to advise and organise a response in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. He was asked by Dame Judith Hackitt to chair the Regulations working group for her independent review and represents both the Products and the Golden Thread working groups. Peter was asked by the UK Housing Minister to support a government working group on modern methods of construction.

Peter is the chair of CB/- (the BSI’s strategic committee for construction); chair of RIBA’s Regulations and Standards Group; chair of the BIM Task Group’s BIM4Regs working group; chair of the CIC health and safety committee; and deputy chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC). Peter is also a RIBA Council member.

Andrew has over 20 years’ experience with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In this time, Andrew has worked on the frontline to improve health and safety standards in agriculture, public services, manufacturing, waste and recycling and construction.

Andrew has initiated several campaigns to promote health and safety and has led many high-profile prosecutions following health and safety failures. 

Andrew has a Msc in Social Research which he used to act as an HSE intelligent customer to commission research projects.  Andrew has performed a partnership liaison role with Local Authority regulators and taken the UK lead on chemical policy including the REACH and CLP regulations.

Most recently, Andrew is the industry competence lead within the HSE Building Safety Regulator team.

Jon is a long-standing professional with over 30 years’ experience in the construction sector, having worked his way up through various site management and engineering roles before moving into the field of Quality Management.

Currently leading a Compliance & Audit team for a major construction organization, Jon is the Chair of the Chartered Quality Institute Construction Special Interest Group established as a representative group for quality professionals within the construction sector.

With extensive experience in the deployment of ISO9001 and associated standards within the Built Environment sector and his hands-on site experience, he has developed a pragmatic approach to the deployment of quality management tools and techniques focusing on the practicalities of implementation for those at the workface.

In his time as a Quality Management professional, he has audited many construction projects ranging from £20k to £600m across public and private sectors, so is fully conversant with the challenges in implementing ISO9001 in the built environment arena.

As a passionate believer in the benefits of developing an integrated, intelligent approach to the implementation of quality management systems, Jon is focussed on their use to drive performance improvement in quality of service delivery, end-product, and customer experience.

Ian is an experienced standards professional, having worked at BSI for over 18 years. Currently working as Sector Lead in the Built Environment area of BSI Knowledge Solutions, he has specific responsibility for the direction and development of key standards areas related to Building Safety, Quality, and Health & Safety, working with industry and government to identify and develop associated knowledge solutions.

Ian has also worked on multiple high-profile projects during his career at BSI, including many of the key management systems standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, ISO 27001 and ISO 45001.

Aman is Deputy Chair of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC), Chair of the BRAC Fire Safety (Part B) Technical Review Working Group and Deputy Chair of the BRAC Golden Thread Working Group.

He is also Chair of BSI committee FSB 1/1/1, leading on the delivery of BS 8644-1.

A former fire and rescue service officer and fire engineer, Aman is now Managing Director of Totus Digital; a strategic management consultancy specialising in building safety, sustainability and digital reform programmes.

Aman is a champion for integrating digital solutions to enhance building safety and sustainability standards. Including enhancing industry’s knowledge and understanding of Building Information Modelling through the adoption of national and international standards.

Will’s focus is on industry transformation to enable better outcomes across the system of the built environment and natural environments. He has twenty years’ experience in infrastructure, construction and consulting and has designed delivery models and delivered capital works, large transformation programmes and green book business cases.

He aims to support industry transformation by collaborating on initiatives such as the recently launched Construction Playbook, and played a leading role in the development of Transforming Infrastructure Performance: Roadmap to 2030.

Jane has over 20 years’ experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Embodied Carbon and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for the construction industry.  She has provided consultancy around this to Welsh Government and the European Commission, and reviewed projects for BSI, RICS, CIBSE and WRAP.  She has written guidance on Embodied Carbon for Woodknowledge Wales, ASBP, Construction Products Association, CIRIA and WRAP. She represents the UK in the development of European and International standards for EPD and Building LCA and acts as a verifier for several European EPD programmes including BRE. She has recently taken over as the Chair of B/558, the BSI Mirror Committee for sustainable construction standards.

Will Johnson Marshall’s 18 year tenure at the British Standards Institution (BSI), meant he was well placed as part of the founding team creating BSI Identify. Will and the team have the substantial mission to create and then establish BSI Identify as the trusted persistent registry for construction products, supporting the industry with digital traceability. He is responsible for all operational aspects including the technical design of the service and supporting customers to create a positive onboarding and ongoing experience.

As Managing Director for Global Built Environment at BSI Andy is responsible for co-ordinating the global vision, strategy, roadmap and execution of with the Built Environment Sector teams operating across all BSI’S Streams and geographies. Working in collaboration with industry stakeholders and clients to drive innovation and product development activities to position BSI as an industry thought leader. He is responsible for driving the of BSI’s Built Environment Sector and to enhance BSI’s position in the wider market

Having over 30 years of experience within quality assurance, testing and certification, Andy is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and ISO 9001:2000 Lead Assessor and has extensive experience of market development for certification programmes and systems within the Built Environment sector.

David has an extensive career in projects and procurement within the construction industry. For over 40 years he has been associated with the development and implementation of major projects in many parts of the world, which has provided an insight into the many organisational and cultural challenges that projects can generate. He has helped a number of major organisations to implement transformation programmes in different industrial arenas, including chemical processing, oil and gas, power generation, and mining and minerals processing

He was the architect and author of the CRAFT collaborative methodology and technical author of the BSI PAS 11000 framework, the world’s first Collaborative business relationship standard. He led the development of BS 11000 to a national standard and the international committee that developed ISO 44001 and has been its chairman since March 2017.

In 2009 he was acknowledged as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders on CSR. Also, an established author he has several publications to his credit, including:

• Sun Tzu and the Project Battleground: Creating Project Strategy using the Art of War; Palgrave Macmillan 2004
• The Bending Moment: Energising corporate strategy; Palgrave Macmillan 2005.
• Corporate Social Responsibility; Balancing Tomorrows sustainability with Today’s profitability; Palgrave Macmillan 2006.
• Raising the standard for collaboration; British Standards 2013.
• Raising the standard for international collaboration; Melrose 2017.

Adrian is an Associate Director at the Institute for Collaborative Working.

He has over 30 years’ experience of working in procurement and supply chain functions formulating and implementing strategy, developing relationships, negotiating major deals and implementing best practice.

For the past seventeen years he has focused on collaboration, working with internal stakeholders to evolve existing relationships and develop new relationships to support key business objectives of strategic supply, market access, enhancing capability and increasing innovation. He is Chairman of the UK ISO 44001 committee (Collaborative Business Relationships) and the UK’s representative on the International Committee.

His previous role was at NATS, the UK Air Traffic Management organisation, as Head of Supply Chain Partnerships & Collaboration; overseeing major collaborative ventures and initiatives, developing relationships, engagement and training strategies, working with multiple partners, to deliver major UK infrastructure transformation.