Building Safety Summit: Building Together for a Safer & Sustainable Future

Andrew Moore

Head of Operations for Building Control at the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) within the Health & Safety Executive (HSE)

With over 20 years of experience with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Andrew has worked on the frontline to improve health and safety standards across various sectors, including agriculture, public services, manufacturing, waste and recycling, and construction.

Andrew has led numerous campaigns to promote health and safety, and has been involved in many high-profile prosecutions, holding accountable those who failed to meet health and safety standards, resulting in risks, injuries or ill health. In addition to the frontline work, Andrew has acted as an HSE intelligent customer for HSE research, and has taken the UK lead on chemical policy, including the REACH and CLP regulations. In 2020, Andrew joined the Building Safety Regulator programme as the Industry Competence Lead and currently serves as the Head of Operations for the regulation of High-Rise Buildings (Gateway 1,2,3). 

VARUN SONI

Partner at calfordseaden, Technical Contributor FSB 1/1/1 (BS 8644) and Member of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) Golden Thread Working Group

Varun is Partner and heads up the BIM and Digital team at calfordseaden. He boasts over 10 years’ experience in the industry and has been at calfordseaden since 2017.

Throughout Varun’s academic and professional career, he has built a solid grounding in architecture, design, construction, and the implementation and use of BIM for design and construction projects. Varun is proactive in advocating Better Information Management across the industry. He contributes to sector-leading networks such as nima, BIM4HAs (BIM for Housing Associations), BIM4Housing, BRAC, Golden Thread Working Group and BS 8644-1 Authoring Team.

Varun strongly advocates new digitalised methods of working, to enable more digitalised areas of our industry, including an integration of AR and AI into BIM, more standardised delivery of information, and also an opportunity to bring greater value engineering to construction and asset lifecycle management through the use of better information management.

EMMA HOOPER

Head of Information Management Strategy, RLB Digital

Emma is Head of Information Management Strategy at RLB Digital. Her job involves working out the intricate details of information management and how it all connects, providing thought-leadership and solutions to complex problems.

She is vice-chair of both nima and buildingSMART UK&I, part of the BSI B/555 standards committee, Information Management Initiative task group and author of the UK BIM framework guidance.

In 2022, she won the 'Digital Construction Champion of the Year' award at the Digital Construction Awards and was made an honorary fellow of the University of Nottingham in information management and modelling.

MANDEEP SINGH GILL

Associate BIM Manager (Digital Golden Thread), Hydrock, now Stantec

With nearly a decade of experience on projects of different scales and sizes, Mandeep has been an active member of BIM4Water, and is a current member of the Nima 'interest group' BIM4Housing.

Mandeep has become a subject matter expert and is leading the way for Hydrock, now Stantec, in shaping their digital safety team's processes and protocols for delivery. Responsible for advising on Building Safety Act implications and general Information Management, Mandeep can offer expert advice on the UK BIM Framework in association with principles of the Digital Golden Thread.

SHAUN FARRELL

Information Management Global Lead, Buro Happold

Shaun has over 30 years of industry experience spanning architecture, interiors, information and data management, tier 1 contractors, project management, cost management, consulting, client agent and the methodology now known as BIM. Working in all sizes of organisations, of all sizes of projects both local and international. Shaun is an experienced international presenter and public speaker. 

Shaun has previously been the BIM manager for signature architects, the BIM lead for a tier 1 contractor on a large project in Russia and then most recently as associate director for BIM with an international project and cost management company, leading the team and delivering projects in London and the southern region before joining Buro Happold to lead information management and BIM consulting services.

Shaun has delivered asset information models for commercial clients and authored strategic and compliance documentation for residential, airports and commercial clients. His current work is focused on common data environments, asset information models, digital twins and enable clients to gain benefits and insight from their data. Shaun has recently been appointed as the secretary for the Society of Digital Engineering.

James Daniels

Associate Fire Engineer, OFR Consultants

James is an Associate at OFR Consultants bringing 16 years of international experience as a fire engineer. He is a specialist in large mass assembly venues from stadia to airports and train stations. He has further experience in the development of commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments, both in the UK and abroad.

During his career, James has worked on several significant and recognisable schemes from Al Thumama stadium and Qatar Petroleum district in Qatar to the Palace of Westminster and Cross Rail tunnel eyes.

He is experienced in the production of fire-engineered solutions for unique built environment challenges, having led teams in the creation and analysis of computational fluid dynamics fire and evacuation models. The result of these simulations supported proposed fire-engineered solutions in situations where the building regulations and other standards provide inadequate or inappropriate guidance.

Tom Rudge

Construction Consultancy & Go to Market Lead, Symetri

Whilst working onsite for several years, Tom gained his experience in Site Engineering and Management. He worked as a main contractor, guiding supply chain partners on day-to-day site delivery activities.

Tom is currently acting as a BIM and Information Manager on a number of high-profile projects across the U.K. With achieving a master's degree in BIM and Digital Construction, Tom brings knowledge from both his on-site experience and an academic perspective. It is this very background that Tom brings to the team, allowing Symetri's clients to benefit from his knowledge of new BIM processes.

STEVE RUDGE

Head of Technical and Delivery, Symetri

Having previously worked for Morgan Sindall, Steve has been in a multi-disciplined design and build environment for 24 years. He has a vast knowledge of the problems that can be encountered on projects of all sizes and provides suitable solutions. Steve’s primary expertise lies in the design, construction and management workflow of information and technology requirements to ensure a project meets the full requirements and data is reused through the delivery. Steve acts as the Project BIM manager and information manager for our clients and helps them de-risk and deliver the project to meet the full defined requirements.

RICHARD BRAYSHAW

Construction Business Area Director, Symetri

Richard challenges all those involved in the construction process to work smarter. Working as a Business Area Director for the Symetri Construction team, he aims to deliver world-class technology solutions and services which increase the capability and capacity of all those involved in construction.