Global Built Environment Summit: Modern Methods of Construction

Recorded: 1 December 2022

Timing: 14.00 – 16.30 (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 afternoon of 1 December the focus is on modern methods of construction (MMC). We’ll cover the role of standards in opening up national and international markets; how to reduce risk around offsite solutions in the UK housing market; and the possible take up and use of the Platform Rulebook.

Who should attend the webinar?

• Housebuilders
• Offsite manufacturers
• Regulators
• Design professionals (architectural designers, engineers, consultants)
• Construction professionals (contractors, sub-contractors, installers, site managers)
• Offsite solutions specialists
• Training providers
• Certification bodies

What will participants gain?

• A better understanding of future offsite construction solutions like the platform approach
• Information on current and future standards for offsite construction solutions
• A better understanding of how to reduce the risks of offsite solutions in residential buildings
• The latest news on adoption of the Platform Rulebook
• The chance to put questions to our experts in advance
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

AGENDA

14.00 Welcome & Introduction

Clare Price, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI

14.10 Offsite solutions – State of the Nation

Mark Farmer, Founding Director & CEO at Cast

14.30 The role of standards in opening up markets

14.30 new national standards committee 

Matthew Egan, Chair of CB/301 and CEO Modularize

14.45 A new international standards work programme 

Ryan Colker, Vice President, Innovation, The International Code Council

15.00 Q&A 

Clare Price, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI

15.15 The Platform Rulebook take up and future use

Ben Carlisle, Global Practice Leader for DfMA, Mott MacDonald

15.35 Q&A 

Clare Price, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI

15.50 Summary & Close

Clare Price, Sector Lead, Built Environment, BSI

Clare Price is Sector Lead – Built Environment at BSI. She is 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.

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. A new BSI Technical Committee for Retrofit is being established in 2020. She sits on the Green Construction Board infrastructure working group to provide input on standardization for carbon management and low carbon concrete. She is Project Lead on the Built Environment Competence Standards programme.

Mark is CEO and a Founding Director of Cast. He has over 30 years experience in construction and real estate and is a recognised international commentator on a variety of industry and policy related issues. Mark authored the Farmer Review, an influential 2016 independent government review of the UK’s construction labour model entitled ‘Modernise or Die’. In 2019 he was appointed as the government’s Champion for Modern Methods of Construction in Housebuilding. Mark is a member of the Construction Leadership Council Senior Advisors Group, a national co-chair of Constructing Excellence, a technical advisor to Homes England, the chair of the West Midlands Combined Authority Future Homes Taskforce and is a trustee of the MOBIE educational charity. Mark is an honorary professor at The University of Salford’s School of Built Environment and holds honorary doctorates from the University College of Estate Management and the University of Wolverhampton.

Ryan M. Colker is Vice President, Innovation at the International Code Council where he leads the Energy, Resilience and Innovation Center of Focus. He also serves as Executive Director of the Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR), a national coalition working to provide communities with the tools necessary to holistically assess and improve their resilience. Prior to joining ICC, Colker served as Vice President at the National Institute of Building Sciences where he directed the Consultative Council and served as staff director of the Council on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate; the National Council on Building Codes and Standards; the Off-Site Construction Council and the Institute’s STEM Education Program. Colker is the editor of the book Optimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of Shocks and Stresses. Previously, he served as Manager of Government Affairs for ASHRAE and Program Director of the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation. He graduated from The George Washington University Law School, and holds a B.A. with honors, in environmental policy from the University of Florida.

As Mott MacDonald’s Global Practice Leader for DfMA (Design for Manufacture and Assembly), Ben is responsible for leading the global community of practitioners, and for shaping the associated strategy and value propositions for this world-leading engineering, design and management organisation.

Ben is a Chartered Civil Engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the construction industry. He has worked across a range of sectors and geographies, including the UK, Singapore, Australia, and Taiwan, with roles in the multi-disciplinary design and delivery of transport and social infrastructure projects.

Most recently, he has been working with the £72m government-funded Construction Innovation Hub, playing a key role in the authoring and publishing of the Product Platform Rulebook, as featured in the Cabinet Office’s “Transforming Infrastructure Performance’s Roadmap to 2030”, and developed to support the Construction Playbook’s ambition for the use of platform approaches.

BSI is committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with this webinar contributing to Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, and Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities.