Date
Thursday 10th October 2024
SEMINAR
Building Safety Summit: Building Together for a Safer, More Sustainable Future
After the success of our event in Manchester last year on the topic of building and fire safety, we're pleased to announce that we will be hosting our third Building Safety Summit in October this year in London.
Time
10am - 2:30pm
Location
Pullman London St Pancras
100 - 110 Euston Rd., London NW1 2AJ
Event Details:
As of 1st October 2023, all new high risk building projects were required to go through a process of proceeding through different gateways at various stages of a project, in accordance with the Building Safety Act. In addition, all existing high risk buildings needed to be registered with the government by this date.
Following the success of our event in October last year, we’re pleased to bring back our third Building Safety Summit to look at updates and advancements around the Building Safety Act since October last year and how 2024 marks the year of not only heightened regulatory involvement in building certifications for new high-risk buildings, but existing too.
Join us to hear first-hand insights and updates from the BSR, and real-world examples of how businesses from design to occupancy are being impacted by the Building Safety Act including how they are delivering against it, capturing robust evidence trails for new projects and existing high risk buildings retrospectively whilst also ensuring sustainability.
Whether you're a developer, architect, contractor, or building manager, this event offers essential information to help you stay informed and prepared for the evolving regulatory landscape, in addition to a renewed focus on building safety and sustainability culture beyond just high risk buildings.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
- Architects
- Engineers
- Contractors
- House Builders
- Building Owners / Managers
- Building Services
- Health & Safety Execs
AGENDA:
10:00
Arrival & Breakfast
10:30
WELCOME & INTRODUCTION
10:40
OPENING ADDRESS - ANDREW MOORE
Health & Safety: Best Practices for a Safer Future
Andrew Moore
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
11:00
PANEL DISCUSSION
With Keynotes
Andrew Moore
Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
Varun Soni
Partner at calfordseaden
11:20
BREAK
11:30
READINESS FOR GATEWAY 2
Designer
Steve Rudge
Head of Technical and Delivery, Symetri
12:00
PANEL DISCUSSION
Contactor, Designer & Owner
Tom Bentley
Associate Director at OFR Consultants
12:20
LUNCH
13:30
READINESS FOR GATEWAY 3
Contractor & Owner
14:00
PANEL DISCUSSION
Designer, Contractor and Owner
14:20
WRAP UP
14:30
CLOSE
PRESENTERS:
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.
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.
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