The Digital World: Built Environment

Recorded: 6 July 2022 (09.00 – 16.15 UK time) 

What’s The Digital World: Built Environment webinar about?

This is our annual day-long session on the digital transformation underway in the built environment. This year a wealth of high-profile industry leaders and subject matter experts will focus on:

• The main digital challenges currently faced by the industry
• Start-ups that are reshaping the landscape and their social and environmental value
• The available standards, guidance and tools supporting the digital transformation journey

Who should attend The Digital World: Built Environment webinar?

Built environment professionals including CEO's, CIOs, CTO's, heads of innovation and R&D, investors, heads of department and programme managers, digital construction managers and directors, digital engineers, digital practice managers, BIM managers and directors, ICT managers and directors, IT operations, visualizers, project managers, architects, contractors, engineers, surveyors, construction managers, building services, facilities and estate managers and directors, clients and developers.

Participants will learn how data can support decision making in the built environment in relation to:

• Current policies and developments
• Key drivers and barriers
• Exemplar case studies
• Available standards, guidance and tools
• Main industry challenges and solutions

Read the webinar agenda here.

Chartered Architectural Technologist Dan Rossiter FCIAT is an active supporter of the built environment, both nationally and internationally. Nationally, Dan provides digital transformation thought leadership at the British Standards Institution (BSI) where he also provides subject matter expertise to several national committees relating to information management, technical documentation, and terminology.  Outside of BSI, Dan contributes to several working groups and is an ambassador for both the UK BIM Alliance and the National Digital Twin programme. Internationally, Dan convenes CEN and ISO terminology and strategy working groups relating to the digital transformation of the built environment.

Paul Morrell is a chartered quantity surveyor and was formerly senior partner of Davis Langdon (now part of Aecom), where he had worked since graduating from university until retiring in 2007.

He was subsequently appointed as the Government's first Chief Construction Adviser with a brief to champion a more coordinated approach to affordable, sustainable construction, serving from 2009 to 2012. In that role he launched the Government Construction Strategy in 2011. He was awarded an OBE in the 2009 New Year Honours list for services to architecture and the built environment.

He now practises as an independent consultant, principally concerned with the organisation and governance of major projects, and with wider cross-industry issues; and  is currently leading an independent review into the product testing regime as part of the Government’s building safety programme.

Mo is the Co-Founder and CEO of Morta, a software provider helping organisations across the built environment leverage their data and automate processes. Morta provides a platform with the familiarity of spreadsheets and the utility of databases, enabling construction professionals to create powerful customised tools that fit their needs quickly and easily. 

He is a Civil Engineer by background, has an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge, and contributes to the UK BIM Framework Guidance.

Simon Elliott is the CEO of 1Breadcrumb, a platform that engages every worker to automate real-time safety and compliance data from construction worksites. For the past 20 years Simon has been innovating, investing, and leading businesses in digital transformation with a focus on the built environment.

George is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the construction industry. A member of the Institute of Civil Engineers CEng (MICE) with a Masters degree in Civil engineering (MEng).

Keen on pushing and contributing to the innovation, sustainable practise and the digital age of construction. Always learning, taking responsibility and putting in maximum energy. Co Founder of innDex a construction technology business focused on bringing automation, transparency and better communication to the construction industry.

Jade is Co-Founder and CPO at Qualis Flow, leading product strategy and development, delivering value to projects, and laying the foundations of the roadmap for the next 5-10 years. Her background in construction environmental management and ecosystem service valuation, which has led her to investigate new ways to automate data collection and analysis in one of the most under-digitalised sectors worldwide.

Margarete McGrath leads global strategic propositions for Dell Technologies. Margarete drives scalable partnerships and new go-to-market initiatives, leveraging her extensive experience from leadership of complex change programmes at EY and PwC.

Prior to Dell, Margarete worked as a management consultant where she worked for EY and PwC leading complex change programmes. She previously worked for PwC in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and more recently in Ireland. Margarete supported many public and private sector clients with their business transformations. Alongside this, Margarete previously ran two successful start ups’ focusing on sharing models in food sustainability and building social networks while in New Zealand.

Today, Margarete works with a diverse group of Dell Technologies clients to support them with their digital and security transformations. Dell Technologies provides a wide range of solutions ranging from edge computing delivering smart solutions to advanced analytics to drive enhanced and secure customer and employee experiences.  

Margarete is widely recognised as an industry thinker on the future of work, digital and security transformation, diversity, inclusion, and positive mental health initiatives. Margarete was named by SC Media Women of Influence awards to be one of the top 30 cybersecurity leaders in 2021.

Hazem Danny Nakib is a digital technology expert and investor, having invested in dozens of companies and an advisor to multinationals leveraging digital technologies in numerous sectors, in particular AI and Blockchain. Hazem is also a senior advisor to the law firm Farrer & Co. Hazem is also a founding member of the digital strategic advisory group of the British Standards Institution, a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and honorary researcher at the University College London.

Hazem previously worked at the Royal Bank of Canada and Boston Consulting Group in numerous roles and studied the BA Law at the University of Cambridge and the BCL at the University of Oxford.

Gavin is an Environmental Scientist, he leads innovation projects across the built environment, cities and transport at Connected Places Catapult.  From decarbonising transport systems, developing city strategies to trialling Internet of Things solutions in the construction sector. He is responsible for ensuring standards are integrated across the catapult's projects and shaping innovation projects in the construction sector.  Prior to the catapult Gavin has had roles including Senior Certification manager for digital construction at BSI, Senior Sustainability consultant at Hilson Moran and Future products manager for BREEAM at BRE.

Tim is an Arup Director and highly experienced infrastructure designer who has worked on a range of large transport, energy and property projects.  He has been an influential agent for change in setting up the new systems to make UK infrastructure systems much lower carbon.

Tim is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2011, he was awarded the ICE President’s Medal for producing the institution’s first significant thought piece on how to decarbonise the infrastructure sector. He is currently chair of an ICE Workstream for identifying systems level reduction in use carbon.

Helen is Head of Sustainability and Building Physics at Bryden Wood, and has a background in both architecture and mechanical engineering. She promotes sustainable building design which delivers a tangible reduction in operational carbon emissions, while considering the comfort of occupants and the whole life carbon of an asset.  Helen works on projects from the earliest design stages through to completion, and on the ongoing maintenance and refurbishment of buildings.

Helen is a visiting tutor at Manchester School of Architecture, encouraging the integration of sustainable design into architectural project work.

Dr Aidan Bell studied BSc Chemistry at the University of Nottingham followed by a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Manchester. He concluded his impressive series of academics in Germany at Universität Bielefeldin with postdoctoral research in Chemistry before becoming an Analyst at Deloitte, where he continued to expand his expansive knowledge base. Seeing anthropogenic climate change as a significant and genuine threat to people’s ways of life, Aidan strived to align his everyday work with the mitigation of environmental impact.

In 2009, he jointly founded and owned EvoEnergy; a Solar PV construction company which grew rapidly to £25m turnover in just its third year of trading, under his leadership. Aidan successful exited the company with a trade sale in 2013 after the government cut support for the solar industry. After a variety of advisory roles to sustainable start-ups, Aidan co-founded EnviroBuild in 2015 when James Brueton approached him with the idea to develop an innovative company orientated around greening products and behaviours within the construction industry. In collaboration, James and Aidan sought to uncover a mission to source and distribute building materials that offer sustainability alongside cost-effectivity and quality. EnviroBuild aims to make the sustainable choice the easy choice, experiencing great success and growth since its creation.

Chris is responsible for the strategic direction of Modulous’ physical and digital products and acts as the company’s sustainability champion. Modulous has created an asset-light, globally scalable model for the design and delivery of sustainable homes. Its technology platform digitises design and procurement to generate optimised schemes based on a costed Kit of Parts, which is manufactured by the supply chain, removing the need for dedicated factories.

Chris is an engineer by training and before founding Modulous he dedicated his international career to designing and delivering low carbon and healthy buildings. While a director at Atelier Ten, Chris led the engineering and sustainability design on projects ranging from Google’s HQ in California to the first LEED ND project outside of America at Chelsea Barracks.