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FUTUREBUILD'S CONFERENCE IS BACK!
FUTUREBUILD'S CONFERENCE IS BACK!
The Futurebuild Conference with Headline Sponsor Construction Innovation Hub will take place in the Main Arena from 01-03 March 2022 at London’s ExCeL. Join your industry in contributing inspiring ideas and action plans needed to achieve a net-zero future.
Now that COP26 has taken place and our thoughts turn to COP27, the ‘what we have to do’ is clearly established and we are now focusing on the ‘how to do it’ and ‘how to do it at scale’. We have no excuses – the opportunities to change are here, do we have the courage to act on them?
Visit the Conference to explore some of the key issues around closing the gap between ambition and delivery; ensuring resource efficiency; investing in people; ensuring a resilient zero carbon financial future; improving the quality of our buildings to create infection resilient environments; examining what levelling up really means; resolving energy supply and demand and successfully retrofitting our building stock; living in a sustainable relationship with nature and exploring the future of building design to respond to the climate and ecological emergency.
Below is the sneak peek and the full programme can be found by clicking here.
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DAY ONE: Ambition beyond COP26
10:30 - 11:30
Beyond COP 26: our action programme
This session is chaired by Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance and will focus on the actions that the UK construction industry will be taking – starting now.
12:00 - 13:00
In a world where embodied carbon is regulated, what has changed?
Chaired by Rt. Hon. Philip Dunne, MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, this session will look into the future where embodied carbon has already been effectively regulated and the outcomes are being put into practice.
13:30 - 14:30
Resource efficiency in a circular, post-Brexit economy. What is the plan?
Do we have the skills and knowledge needed and sufficient understanding about partnership working to deliver a circular economy? This session, chaired by Professor David Greenfield, Managing Director, Soenecs and RAEng Visiting Professor of Circular Economy, University of Brighton, will explore the issues.
15:00 - 16:00
Investing in people – education, skills and diversity
Chaired by Robin Nicholson, CBE, Fellow Cullinan Studio and Convenor of the Edge.
16:30 - 17:30
When ‘What if’ becomes ‘What next’
Welcome and Introduction: Keith Waller, Programme Director, Construction Innovation Hub.
DAY two: Leading transformative change
10:30 - 11:30
Making the shift to a resilient, zero carbon financial future
This session explores the risks and solutions around key questions such as 'How do we address these critical issues and what does it mean for built and natural environment professionals in their work?'.
12:00 - 13:00
Creating infection resilient environments
At the request of Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the National Engineering Policy Centre set up a Commission to review the actions needed to make infrastructure more resilient to infection. Chaired by Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng, Commission Chair.
13:30 - 14:30
What should 'levelling up' really mean?
This session, chaired by Miatta Fahnbulleh, Chief Executive, new economics foundation, will explore what making levelling up should and could be in practice and what role those in the built environment should contribute.
15:0 - 16:00
Raising aspirations – leading by example
This session will be chaired by Bea Natzler, Senior Analyst Business and Buildings, Climate Change Committee and include 7 speakers with 'Pecha Kucha style’ ideas.
16:30 - 17:30
Big Innovation Pitch
This session will see six shortlisted innovators battle it out in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch, to become winner of the Big Innovation Pitch 2022. Chaired by Dr Oliver Jones, Research Director, Ryder Architecture.
DAY THREE: Towards a healthier, happier place for all in a zero-carbon world
10:15 - 11:15
Supply, demand and retrofit– how we overcame all three.
This session, chaired by Gillian Charlesworth, Chief Executive, Building Research Establishment (BRE) will explore the journey.
11:45 - 12:45
What if we got people protection right?
Join us as we explore how changing working practices to ones which promote health and wellbeing can deliver long term value. Chaired by Nathan Baker, Chief Executive, IOM.
13:15 - 14:15
Living in a sustainable relationship with nature
This session is chaired by Richard Benwell, Chief Executive Wildlife and Countryside Link.
14:45 - 15:45
The future of building design
An exploratory discussion between an award-winning architect; Peter Clegg, Senior Partner, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and engineer; Hanif Kara, Co-founder and Design Director, AKT II and Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology - Harvard GSD on how building design can and must respond to the climate and ecological emergency.
SPEAKERS CONFIRMED - MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON
Rt. Hon. Philip Dunne, MP
Professor Peter Guthrie OBE FREng
Professor Catherine Noakes OBE
Gillian Cooper
Sarah Mukherjee MBE
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Peter Clegg
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Richard Benwell
Sandi Rhys Jones, OBE
Bea Natzler
Dr Oliver Jones
Ryder Architecture
Hattie Hartman
Andrew Simms
Amos Simbo
Nathan Baker
Hanif Kara
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From ambition to zero
The UK Government has enshrined achieving 100% net zero carbon emissions by 2050 in law. In October 2021 it published its ‘Net Zero Strategy’ ahead of COP 26. We have also experienced a pandemic and learnt that we are all able to change many of our established behaviours. The German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, has expressed the view that climate change has the power to change us as well as the planet and looming disasters offer the opportunity and freedom to do things differently – describing it as ‘emancipatory catastrophism’. We know that we have to do many things differently and that beyond greenhouse gas emissions we have to take a ‘towards zero’ approach to waste, the performance gap for buildings and places, the skills gap, natural resource and biodiversity loss, negative health impacts and discrimination.
Now that COP 26 has taken place and the ‘what we have to do’ is clearly established, we must focus on the ‘how to do it’ and how to do it at scale. We have no excuses – the opportunities to change are here, do we have the courage to act on them?
These Futurebuild Conference sessions will explore some of the key questions and issues around closing the gap between ambition and delivery. The full programme will be announced soon, in the meantime check out our sneak peek below…
Beyond COP 26: our action programme
01 March 2022 / 10.30 - 11.30
COP 26 has been the key focus for 2021, a year when the world would come together to agree and affirm its collective actions to limit the impact of climate change. In 2022 the many pressures on us to act now are still with us. The physical impacts of climate change that we are already experiencing highlight the need for developing long-term resilience at the same time as reducing emissions, restoring natural resources and biodiversity, ensuring a sustainable food supply and recognising the impacts of climate change on human health and wellbeing. While the COP has agreed global targets and actions, we also need to act locally and put our own house in order.
This session will focus on the actions that the UK construction industry will be taking – starting now.
Chair:
Shaun Spiers
Green Alliance
Panellist:
Hannah Vickers
Panellist:
Rachel Skinner
Panellist:
Simon Foxell
Panellist:
Sunand Prasad
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Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Lucy Shea
Futerra
Title name goes here more title name also and then some more
Time slot Here
Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Lucy Shea
Futerra
Lucy Shea
Futerra
Title name goes here more title name also and then some more
Time slot Here
Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Net zero pioneer Futurebuild, brings together the brightest minds, the disruptive thinkers and most exciting innovators to transform the industry. The curated exhibition showcases manufacturers and suppliers of the most innovative technology, products and services from the built environment and our industry renowned knowledge programme sees the most influential thought leaders and pioneering thinkers take the stage to address the industry’s most pressing issues.
Lucy Shea
Futerra
Lucy Shea
Futerra
