05 - 07 March 2024 | ExCeL, London

05 - 07 March 2024 | ExCeL, London

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Opinion Pieces

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Making the case for long-term stewardship of green infrastructure as the foundation of a better built environment

Opinion Piece Making the case for long-term stewardship of green infrastructure as the foundation of a better built environment Opinion piece by Dr Gemma Jerome, Director, Building with Nature Evidencing the need for a Stewardship Framework and Accreditation system to support long-term environmental and biodiversity gains, and deliver nature recovery in and around where people

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Challenges of meeting the PM2.5 target in urban areas

Opinion Piece Challenges of meeting the PM2.5 target in urban areas Opinion piece by Emma Ferranti with contributions by Joe Acton, Deepchandra Srivastava, Catherine Muller, Sarah Greenham, James Hall, Jian Zhong), University of Birmingham Air pollution is the largest environmental threat to human health in the UK. According to Public Health England, 28,000-36,000 premature deaths

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Building For the Future

Opinion Piece What is a Building Safety Case? Opinion piece by Allan Binns, Safety Director, Ryder Architecture In preparation for changes to the Building Safety Act, the safety team at Ryder Architecture partnered with their digital counterparts and Ryder sister company BIM Academy, for a unique collaboration on safety and digital strategies to support ‘accountable persons’

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Shifting the built environment towards net zero and beyond

Opinion Piece What is a Building Safety Case? Opinion piece by Allan Binns, Safety Director, Ryder Architecture In preparation for changes to the Building Safety Act, the safety team at Ryder Architecture partnered with their digital counterparts and Ryder sister company BIM Academy, for a unique collaboration on safety and digital strategies to support ‘accountable persons’

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National Retrofit Conference to accelerate the retrofit skills gap

Opinion Piece National Retrofit Conference to accelerate the retrofit skills gap Opinion piece by Derek Harrocks, founder and chair of the National Home Decarbonisation Group With The National Retrofit Conference set to create the roadmap that will lead the retrofitting industry, Derek Horrocks, founder and chair of the National Home Decarbonisation Group, a key partner

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AT Awards 2023

Opinion Piece What is a Building Safety Case? Opinion piece by Allan Binns, Safety Director, Ryder Architecture In preparation for changes to the Building Safety Act, the safety team at Ryder Architecture partnered with their digital counterparts and Ryder sister company BIM Academy, for a unique collaboration on safety and digital strategies to support ‘accountable persons’

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What is a Building Safety Case?

Opinion Piece What is a Building Safety Case? Opinion piece by Allan Binns, Safety Director, Ryder Architecture In preparation for changes to the Building Safety Act, the safety team at Ryder Architecture partnered with their digital counterparts and Ryder sister company BIM Academy, for a unique collaboration on safety and digital strategies to support ‘accountable persons’

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Taking a Stand for Better Buildings

Opinion Piece What do we need to change to make better use of our digital twins? Opinion piece by Rebecca De Cicco, Principal– Digital Enablement, Aurecon & Global Chair, Women in BIM  A Grenfell Tower tragedy survivor only realised the 24-storey building was on fire when they heard fire engines arrive. The building’s lack of

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Greenwashing – what’s true, what’s not, and does it matter?

Opinion Piece Greenwashing – what’s true, what’s not, and does it matter? Opinion piece by Charlie Martin, Co-Founder at The Anti-Greenwash Charter Earlier this month, The Anti-Greenwash Charter carried out an industry-wide survey with Futurebuild. The survey report – ‘Greenwashing – what’s true, what’s not, and does it matter?’ – includes data on how greenwashing

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What do we need to change to make better use of our digital twins?

Opinion Piece What do we need to change to make better use of our digital twins? Opinion piece by Rebecca De Cicco, Principal– Digital Enablement, Aurecon & Global Chair, Women in BIM  A Grenfell Tower tragedy survivor only realised the 24-storey building was on fire when they heard fire engines arrive. The building’s lack of

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Why is the reuse of construction materials and products so important?

Opinion Piece Why is the reuse of construction materials and products so important? Opinion piece by Debbie Ward, Reuse/ Circular Economy from Alliance of Sustainable Building Products Looking at the bigger, biggest, picture, we are not in great shape. Our world has finite resources and we have been using, are using and will continue to

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Welcome to Death Valley

Opinion Piece Welcome to Death Valley Opinion piece by Dr Olli Jones, Head of Sustainability & Innovation, Cundall What is the death valley curve? In the process of technological innovation there is something called the “valley of death”. In the innovation of new products and technologies, we typically see an early buoyant, even jubilant peak

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Embracing Ground Source Heat Pumps: A Climate Win We Can’t Ignore

Opinion Piece Embracing Ground Source Heat Pumps: A Climate Win We Can’t Ignore Opinion piece by Ken Gordon, Chief Executive Officer of Ground Source Heat Pumping Association (GSHPA)  As the global community grapples with the urgency of climate change, one technology stands out as a promising solution in the fight against greenhouse gas emissions –

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How to close digital skills gaps

Opinion Piece How to close digital skills gaps Opinion piece by Rebecca De Cicco, Global Chair and Founder of Women in BIM, and Principal for Digital Enablement at Aurecon. Digital impacts everything we do from the homes we live in to the roads we travel on and the places in which we work. The construction industry

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Why we must all work together for trees

Opinion Piece Why we must all work together for trees An opinion piece by Sue James and Keith Sacre, Trees and Design Action Group ‘Working in collaboration for better places’ and ‘Working together for trees’ are long-standing aims of the Trees and Design Action Group. The evidence-based environmental, social, and economic benefits of trees have

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Fast Labs: Accelerating Lab Deployment for the Bio-Revolution

Opinion Piece Fast Labs: Accelerating Lab Deployment for the Bio-Revolution An opinion piece by Alastair Powell, Director, Bryden Wood. The Bio-Revolution The ‘bio-revolution’ is a term used to describe the recent and rapid advancement in the life sciences, brought about due to a convergence in major scientific breakthroughs and maturing technologies, including AI, automation, and

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Why now is the time to ‘take a lead’

Opinion Piece Why now is the time to ‘take a lead’ An opinion piece by Adrian Catchpole, CEng FCIBSE, CIBSE President We are faced with an urgent need to bridge the engineering skills gap internationally. It is no secret that the demand for skilled professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields is rapidly

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Circular construction is a degenerative design option, unless we specify harm-free materials first

Opinion Piece Circular construction is a degenerative design option, unless we specify harm-free materials first An opinion piece by Chaline Church, Founding Partner, 540 WORLD As regenerative design consultants, we have concluded that the links critically missing from many conversations around circular design and building ‘sustainably’, is full stakeholder integration and secondly, and vitally, what

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Net Zero Pioneer special: 60 seconds with Hanson

Opinion Piece Net Zero Pioneer special: 60 seconds with Hanson Hanson Concrete is committed to reaching net zero by 2050. Looking specifically at concrete, what are you doing to achieve this? Approximately 90% of the CO2 in a cubic metre of typical 35 MPa CEM I concrete comes from Portland cement. While we are investing

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Building Capacity for Climate Action: Adopting the Climate Framework

Opinion Piece Building Capacity for Climate Action: Adopting the Climate Framework An opinion by Mina Hasman, RIBA, ARB, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, BREEAM AP, Sustainability Director, SOM & Climate Framework Initiative Lead. The built environment and construction industry, as well as associated professional and educational bodies are showing a momentous culture shift, reporting much

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CIOB launches new digital resources for construction clients

Opinion Piece CIOB launches new digital resources for construction clients Being a construction client isn’t just about creating the right building for the right price within the right timeframe. It is also an opportunity to solve some of the biggest economic, ethical and ecological problems we face today. Construction clients play a pivotal role in

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Breaking boundaries: How Futurebuild pitch winners are changing the game

Opinion Piece Breaking boundaries: How Futurebuild pitch winner are changing the game Futurebuild is one of the most exciting events in the construction industry calendar. It provides industry leaders with the chance to share expertise and knowledge and also helps start-ups and SMEs gain increased recognition for pioneering products and ingenious ideas. Two of the

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How could the specification of materials in construction projects help the industry reach net zero carbon targets by 2050? Futurebuild asks four experts.

Opinion Piece How could the specification of materials in construction projects help the industry reach net zero carbon targets by 2050? Futurebuild asks four experts. The challenge lies in changing the culture around construction. Dr Gavin Dunn, CABE CEO and former Chair of the Future Homes Standard Working Group for the Building Regulation Advisory Committee (BRAC),

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