Global Built Environment Summit - Quality and Value

Recorded: 1 December 2022

Timing: 10.00 – 13.00 (GMT)

What’s this webinar about?

BSI’s Global Built Environment Summit aims to help the construction sector adopt the transformative new technologies, tools and processes now available to the industry. On the morning of 1 December, quality management and value-based decision-making are in the spotlight. These have always been integral to success in the sector, but are evolving. This webinar explores the latest thinking and tools for both.

Who should attend the webinar?

• Quality managers
• Building safety managers
• Asset owners (clients)
• Asset operators (landlords, asset managers, facility managers)
• Design professionals (architectural designers, engineers, consultants)
• Construction professionals (contractors, sub-contractors, installers, site managers)

What will participants gain?

• Help with adopting BS 99001 on applying ISO 9001 in the built environment
• An overview of Flex 390 on value-based decision-making in the built environment
• The latest thinking on health and safety and well-being in the built environment
• The chance to put questions to our experts in advance
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

Agenda

10:00 Welcome & Introduction

Ian Richardson, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI 

10:10 The business of construction and setting the scene

Will Hughes, Professor Emeritus, Reading University

10:40 Quality Management and BS 99001 

Rahul Shah, Sector Director EMEA, Built Environment, BSI

Adrian Shah-Cundy, Corporate Responsibility Director, VolkerWessels UK

Steffan Speer, Technical Director, Morgan Sindall

Rob Cairns, Innovation Manager, HS2

11:20 Break

11:30 Introducing Value-based decision making, and the new Flex 390

Ian Nicholson, Value Delivery Lead, Construction Innovation Hub and Senior Sustainability Leader, Stantec

12:00 Avoiding error and how it benefits productivity, safety, sustainability and quality

Clifford Smith BSc. C.Eng. FICE, Executive Director, GIRI Ltd.

12:30 Panel discussion - All

12:50 Summary & Close

Ian Richardson, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI

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 and 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.

Having started in the construction industry as an unskilled labourer in 1972, Will Hughes progressed through college and university to follow an academic vocation. His doctorate is on Organizational Analysis of Building Projects, and he has researched and written extensively on the control and management of building contracts, management of design, professional issues, analysis of organizational structure and the analysis of procurement systems. His focus is on the commercial processes of structuring, negotiating, recording and enforcing business deals in construction. For 25 years he was Editor of the academic journal, Construction Management and Economics. He was Head of the School of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Reading 2005-2010 and, subsequently, programme manager for the MSc Construction Management. Having retired from the University, he now spends his time with national and international standards in the area of construction procurement and cataloguing global research in construction management for the Association of Researchers in Construction Management.

With over 23 years of experience, Rahul has worked with asset owners, main contractors, architects, engineers and manufacturers. He has gained experience of leading various innovation and digital initiatives on a diverse range of projects, including large scale multi-billion-pound urban regeneration schemes through to hospitals, airports, residential, commercial etc. He has gained thorough understanding of the risks and opportunities faced by today’s global construction businesses. In his current role at BSI, he supports clients across EMEA in sustainability, digital, safety, quality, and supply chain.

Adrian is Corporate Responsibility Director at VolkerWessels UK, a leading multidisciplinary contractor of 3,500 employees and a turnover of £1.2bn that delivers innovative engineering solutions across the civil engineering and construction sectors including rail, highways, airport, marine, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

He has over 25 years in the construction industry across operational, training, supervision, management, change, and support services, and 17 years at VolkerWessels UK with accountability for a range of professional services.  These services include safety, environment, quality, sustainability, occupational health and wellbeing, management systems, reporting, operational training, fleet, facilities, collaboration and community outreach.

A key part of Adrian’s responsibilities is oversight of VolkerWessels UK ISO / BS certifications, and he is presently driving their early adoption of BS 99001:2022.

Steffan joined Morgan Sindall Construction in 2007 and has held a variety of roles within construction industry including commercial and project management. Steffan is currently the Technical Director for the Construction Division at Morgan Sindall and as part of his role leads the quality function within the division.

Through the experience of delivering projects as commercial, project and preconstruction lead Steffan has gained invaluable experience to help our teams and customers successfully deliver our projects in an efficient manner.

Steffan has a passion for delivering quality, implementing technology and manufacturing principles to help improve operational efficiency across construction.

Ian is Senior Sustainability Leader at Stantec and is seconded into the Construction Innovation Hub where he is the Value Delivery Lead. He was responsible for leading the team that developed the Value Toolkit, an innovative approach to defining and implementing values-based decision-making into the infrastructure projects and programmes, this included acting as sponsor for the development of BS Flex 390. His role is currently focused on transitioning the Toolkit to a legacy sponsor and operator.

He trained originally as a civil engineer and has worked in the construction industry for over 35 years, the first ten of which were in frontline project roles. In the early 1990’s Ian moved to Anglian Water where he focused on business improvement activities, initially with responsibilities for quality assurance but increasingly from the late 1990s looking at environmental management and sustainable development within the construction industry.

Since leaving Anglian Water in 2003 Ian has gathered extensive experience in environmental and sustainability issues within the construction industry as a consultant on topics such as environmental management systems; life cycle assessment techniques; carbon reduction; responsible and ethical sourcing of construction products; and learning and development of sustainability skills. In addition, Ian acted as Technical Director for CEEQUAL from its inception until 2017 when he joined BRE to lead the integration of CEEQUAL into the wider BREEAM family of sustainability schemes.

Until the end of 2020, Ian also sat on the BSI Technical Committee for Sustainability in Construction (B/558), and was the UK Expert to both the ISO and CEN Working Groups on Sustainability Indicators for Civil Engineering (ISO/TC17/SC59/WG5 and CEN TC350/WG6).

GIRI executive director, Cliff Smith, is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and has more than 40 years experience in the construction industry, 38 working with contractor Sir Robert McAlpine and subsequently as a consultant offering specialist engineering and technical support, project and design management and strategic quality leadership.

He has been a director of the Get it Right Initiative since its formation and was involved in the development of the Guide to Improving Value by Reducing Design Error and a number of research reports on the use of technology in the construction industry - all of which are available to download from the GIRI website.

Cliff leads an agile GIRI delivery team covering administration, communications, finance and research.

BSI is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with this webinar contributing to Goal 3 on good health and well-being, Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth, Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure.