Building Safety Summit: Building Together For A Safer Future

DAME JUDITH HACKITT

Author of the 2018 "Building a Safer Future" Report and Adviser to UK and Australian Governments on Building Safety

Dame Judith Hackitt joined HS2 in April 2019 and was the Chair of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety and Chair of manufacturing trade body Make UK (formerly EEF). Dame Judith’s current positions include being a Chair at Enginuity, a directorship at Ingeniators and an advisor on Building Standard for the UK and Australian (Victoria) Governments. She previously held non-executive positions at Made Smarter Commission, Imperial College Court, City & Guilds Group, and High Value Manufacturing Catapult. An engineer by profession, Dame Judith holds a degree in chemical engineering from Imperial College, London.

DEBI WAITE

Head of Operations (Investigation and Intelligence Unit) in the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) within the Health & Safety Executive (HSE)

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.

MARK TURNER

BIM Manager, AEW Architects

Mark Turner leads the BIM Team at AEW Architects - a Manchester-based, AJ100 practice. Mark is a BIM Professional and Architectural Technologist with over 20 years of industry experience.

Together with his team, he provides Information Management consultancy services direct to clients, contractors, and external consultants nationwide. He also oversees the continuous training and support of AEW’s team, along with coordination and technical support for projects.

Mark promotes the use of better information management to advance the design process, production of information exchanges and all other industry workflows across all AEW’s projects - including a growing portfolio of retrofit and refurbishment projects.

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.