Built environment monthly webinar

Recorded: 22 September (12:30 - 14:00 UK time)

What’s this webinar about?

This webinar updates and informs participants on the industry initiatives and projects, led by the Green Construction Board (GCB), that are helping the UK infrastructure sector achieve Net Zero by 2050. 

Who is this webinar for?

• The infrastructure industry, including:
  • Clients (energy, utilities, transport)
  • Consultants
  • Contractors (national and international)
• Concrete manufacturers
• Those involved in testing, certification and regulation

What will participants gain?

• Information on how to save costs, innovate and gain competitive advantage from adopting new techniques, materials and technologies in pursuit of Net Zero

Agenda

12:30 - 12:40 Welcome and Introduction - Clare Price, Sector Lead - Built Environment, British Standards Institution (BSI)

12:40 - 12:50 Opening remarks - Chris Newsome OBE, Non Executive Director, Affinity Water and Chair of Green Construction Board, Infrastructure Working Group

12:50 - 13:05 Infrastructure Carbon Review 7 years on - Maria Manidaki, Global Technical Lead for Net Zero, Mott MacDonald, Heleni Pantelidou, Associate Director – Infrastrucure, Arup

13:05 - 13:20 PAS 2080 revision programme - Kat Ibbotson, Director, Strategic Advisory, WSP, Adrian Johnson, Chartered Civil Engineer and Technical Director, Stantec

13:20 - 13:35 Low Carbon Concrete route map - Andrew Mulholland, Managing Director, AMCRETE UK

13:35 - 13:55 Panel discussion & Q&A session - led by Chris Newsome

14:00 End of the webinar

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A Standards professional with extensive experience in sharing Standards knowledge, managing Standards Committees and recently, working with industry and government to identify standards needs and deliver complex standards projects.

Clare is project lead on the MHCLG/BSI Built Environment Competence Standards work programme leading to the publication of BSI Flex 8670 and three new PAS documents in development for the newly regulated roles under the Building Safety Bill.

She led the standards workstream in the Each Home Counts Independent Review of energy efficiency and renewable energy where she helped to define and deliver the programme of Standards development, including the PAS 2035 framework, under the Retrofit Standards Task group.

Clare is a member of the GCB’s Infrastructure Working Group and Low Carbon Concrete group.

Chris is a civil engineer by profession and has spent the vast majority of his career planning for, designing and delivering capital programmes of work and managing large asset bases.

Chris spent his formative years at Yorkshire Water.  He joined Anglian Water as a main Board Exec Director with specific responsibility for Asset Management in 2004 and stepped down in 2018 to develop a Portfolio Career.

At Anglian Water, Chris was Chairman of @one Alliance, the collaborative venture formed to deliver the majority of AW’s capital programme.  He was Chairman of UK Water Industry Research Ltd from 2013- January 2019 and is a member of the Government’s Green Construction Board and Chairman of its Infrastructure Working Group.

Chris was President of the Institute of Asset Management 2017-2019.

Chris is an independent NED of Affinity Water.

Chris is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Institute of Asset Management and a member of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management.

Chris was awarded an OBE for services to Civil Engineering and carbon reduction in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list 2017. 

Maria Manidakiis Mott MacDonald’s Global Technical Lead for Net Zero. A chartered engineer with over 18 years of experience in investment planning, carbon and asset management, Maria has led a number of strategic decarbonisation projects in infrastructure, including the Water UK Net Zero Carbon Roadmap. Maria has been supporting water utilities and other infrastructure owners in the UK, Australasia, North America and the Middle East, plan and implement decarbonisation solutions.

Maria is a member of the Green Construction Board in the UK and has co-authored the Infrastructure Carbon Review and PAS 2080: Carbon Management in Infrastructure. She is in the Technical Author team for the PAS 2080 update, which is to be launched in 2022.

Maria is a visiting lecturer on Low Carbon and Net Zero Infrastructure at Cranfield University, UK. She is a technical advisor on Net Zero in a number of industry forums including the Institution of Civil Engineers Carbon Project.

Heleni is an Associate Director at Arup, driving Climate Action and Sustainable Development in the Infrastructure Group, London.  An enthusiastic promoter of Low Carbon in Infrastructure, Heleni advances and coordinates sustainable design and whole life carbon strategies on infrastructure projects and the built environment.  She combines her deep engineering knowledge with the belief that the construction industry is key in decarbonising the built environment and contributing towards environmental regeneration, responding to the climate and biodiversity crises.  

Heleni has close links with academic establishments and has acted as the Industrial Supervisor for several research projects. She supports and coordinates sustainable development skills and expertise, including integration of Planetary Health principles in engineering projects and infrastructure advisory. 

A member of the Green Construction Board and the Institution of Civil Engineers Net Zero Taskforce, she is actively involved in accelerating decarbonisation in Infrastructure and the built environment.  She is also a member of the Science Based Target Network for Nature (SBTn), a global group of organisations that focus on restoring balance across all interrelated natural systems of climate, freshwater, biodiversity, land and the ocean.

Kat is a Chartered Environmentalist, a Fellow ICE and member of CIWEM and has spent most of her career within Flood and Coast Risk Management, ranging from project, programme and commercial management.  With a key focus on carbon reduction within infrastructure, having implemented and managed the Environment Agency’s whole life carbon tool (Eric), developed the cost and carbon function into a key delivery service and programme managed the Net Zero Carbon Programme for Infrastructure.  Kat has lead measuring and benchmarking carbon impact workstream for ICE carbon project.

Kat has recently joined WSP as Director, Strategic Advisory, and continues to have a focus on Net Zero, Circular Economy and ESG.

A regular speaker and panel expert, Kat has supported the updates of key industry documents and standards from, cost and carbon measurement standards and benchmarking guides to providing expert advice on whole life carbon implementation. 

A regular industry judge, Kat is also an award finalist and winner, most recently named as one of Top 50 UK women in sustainability by Women in Engineering Society (2020).

Adrian is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Technical Director at Stantec, specialising in carbon and sustainability. In recent years he has been helping UK water companies to develop and implement strategies for carbon reduction and climate change across their capital investment programmes and make progress towards their net zero commitments. He has also led various research and pilot studies on carbon accounting, sustainable water systems, natural and social capital, climate change and resilience.

Adrian is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and is currently supporting the ICE’s Carbon Project – Toward Net Zero for Infrastructure. He chaired the Technical Advisory Panel for developing the PAS 2080 specification on carbon management in infrastructure for the UK’s Green Construction Board. Adrian is an Honorary Professor in the School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society at Heriot Watt University.

Andrew is the Managing Director of AMCRETE UK, which provides concrete technology support and advice to the construction industry and chair of the Low Carbon Concrete Group.

Andrew is a Chartered Construction Manager and a member of the Institute of Concrete Technology. Andrew regularly lectures to the Chartered Institute of Building, reviews papers for the ICE and works with Concrete producers, clients and Contractors advising on concrete related investigations and solutions as well as introducing new and emerging cement technologies to contribute to driving down the industries carbon emissions.