Embracing a Movement
for Change
Agenda
Agenda
The conference will open with a provocative keynote, challenging our speakers and the ensuing sessions which will tackle some of the big questions facing us, such as:
- What kind of construction industry do we want?
- When will digital deliver on its promise?
- How will we create resilient supply chains?
8.45 - 9.30 BST | Setting the scene: Welcome and keynote presentation
Speaker:
Professor Paul W. Chan, Professor of Design and Construction Management, TU Delft.
Chair:
Professor Jacqueline Glass, Professor in Construction Management, Vice Dean Research, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London.
9.45 - 11.15 BST | What kind of construction industry do we want?
Speakers include:
Professor Paul W. Chan, Professor of Design and Construction Management, TU Delft.
Peter Caplehorn, Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association.
Professor Stuart Green, Professor of Construction Management, School of the Built Environment, University of Reading.
Amanda Long, Chief Executive, Considerate Constructors Scheme.
Mark Reynolds, Group Chief Executive, Mace.
Chair:
Professor Jacqueline Glass, Professor in Construction Management, Vice Dean Research, The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London.
13.00 - 14.45 BST | When will digital deliver on its promise?
Speakers include:
Professor Chimay J. Anumba, Professor and Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida.
Jon Antevy, Co-Founder, e-Builder, Inc.
Mark Enzer, CTO, Mott MacDonald and Head of the National Digital Twin programme, CDBB.
Professor Annabelle Gawer, Chaired Professor in Digital Economy; Director, Centre of Digital Economy; Head, Department of Digital Economy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Surrey; Visiting Professor, Oxford Saïd Business School.
Chair:
Professor Jennifer Whyte, Laing O’Rourke / Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Systems Integration, Imperial College London.
15.00 - 16.50 BST | How will we create resilient supply chains?
Speakers include:
Professor Lisa M. Ellram, University Distinguished Professor and Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management, Department of Management, the Farmer School of Business, Miami University.
Nigel Ostime, Delivery Director, Hawkins Brown.
Sarah Wilkes, Global Solutions Director a.i. | Global Solution Leader, Business Advisory, Arcadis
Matt Yeates, Managing Director, Digital Ventures, Tata Steel Europe.
Chair:
Professor Jan Godsell, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, WMG, University of Warwick.
Professor Paul W. Chan holds the Chair of Design and Construction Management at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in Delft University of Technology. He studies human relations in engineering and construction projects, examining how people deal with social, organisational and technological change.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Construction Management and Economics. He has authored publications on a variety of topics, including labour productivity, knowledge sharing, new service-led business models, social value and sustainable transitions in construction. He also co-authored the book Constructing Futures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) on leadership and futures thinking in construction.
Professor Jacqui Glass is Chair in Construction Management, at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, in University College London and Vice Dean Research for the Bartlett Faculty. She is Principal Investigator of the Transforming Construction Network Plus.
She has published over 150 papers, managed c. £10m of funding (from research councils and industry) and supervised more than 20 doctoral students to completion. In so doing she has attended to research spanning strategy, procurement, standards, values, and accounting for sustainability. Her specialism is responsible and ethical sourcing, which relates to material and product supply chains, and in 2018 she was named in the Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers.
Professor Paul W. Chan holds the Chair of Design and Construction Management at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment in Delft University of Technology. He studies human relations in engineering and construction projects, examining how people deal with social, organisational and technological change.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Construction Management and Economics. He has authored publications on a variety of topics, including labour productivity, knowledge sharing, new service-led business models, social value and sustainable transitions in construction. He also co-authored the book Constructing Futures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) on leadership and futures thinking in construction.
Peter Caplehorn is the Chief Executive of the Construction Products Association, having been promoted to lead the CPA in May 2019 following five years as Deputy Chief Executive and Policy Director. His work focuses on engaging with policy makers and industry leaders to raise the profile of the products sector and members’ businesses, grow the market and reduce regulatory risk. Peter is a Chartered Architect with more than 35 years of experience, but is particularly respected for his leadership across the wider construction industry in a number of key national roles. Most recently he has represented the CPA at the Industry Response Group, initiated by the UK Government to advise and organise a response that will help make existing buildings safe in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. He was also asked by Dame Judith Hackitt to chair the Regulations working group for her independent review, as well as to sit on both the Products and the Golden Thread working groups. In addition, in 2018 Peter was asked by the UK Housing Minister to support a government working group on modern methods of construction in the housing sector. In addition, Peter is the chair of CB/- (the British Standards Institution’s strategic committee for construction); chair of RIBA’s Regulations and Standards Group; chair of the BIM Task Group’s BIM4Regs working group; and chair of the CIC health and safety committee.
Stuart Green is a Professor of Construction Management at the University of Reading. He has over 30 years’ experience in construction policy research and related consultancy in the UK and internationally.
Over the course of his career he has secured in excess of £7.5 million in competitive research funding, primarily from EPSRC. From 2007-2013 he served as a Core Commissioner on the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012. Stuart has also chaired the CIOB Innovation and Research Panel with the remit of improving collaboration between industry and academia (2011-2016). Publications include the 2011 book Making Sense of Construction Improvement (Wiley/Blackwell).
Amanda Long joined the Considerate Constructors Scheme in September 2019 as Chief Executive, and has over 20 years of experience working in senior executive roles for a range of national and international organisations. Amanda has a wealth of expertise driving ethical business practice and developing ground-breaking Corporate Social Responsibility frameworks to improve standards; helping organisations in behavioural and culture change programmes focusing on public engagement, sustainability, workforce welfare and consumer rights.
Her previous roles include Director-General of Consumers International; CEO of Corporate Culture; Joint CEO East of England Cooperative, Head of Corporate Responsibility at Anglian Water Services; and International Projects Manager (Sustainability) at Unilever.
Mark Reynold was appointed Mace’s Chief Executive in January 2013, and has overseen the company’s revenue growth from £1bn to £2bn in 2018. He has consistently championed change within our industry, driving innovation to improve service excellence, whilst ensuring Mace continues to be more productive, more efficient and a responsible company.
Mark gained his early experience in the commercial and aviation sectors. He was the Deputy Programme Director for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Mark is currently a member of the Construction Leadership Council, responsible for the Skills workstream, a Board Director for London First, the Northern Powerhouse Partnership and is a trustee of LandAid.
Professor Jacqui Glass is Chair in Construction Management, at The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, in University College London and Vice Dean Research for the Bartlett Faculty. She is Principal Investigator of the Transforming Construction Network Plus.
Jacqui Glass has published over 150 papers, managed c. £10m of funding (from research councils and industry) and supervised more than 20 doctoral students to completion. In so doing she has attended to research spanning strategy, procurement, standards, values, and accounting for sustainability. Her specialism is responsible and ethical sourcing, which relates to material and product supply chains, and in 2018 she was named in the Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery Influencers.
Professor Chimay J. Anumba is Dean of the College of Design, Construction and Planning at The University of Florida. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, FREng. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Leeds, U.K.; a higher doctorate – D.Sc. (Doctor of Science) - from Loughborough University, U.K.; and an Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.) from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
He has over 500 scientific publications (including 20 books and over 200 journal papers) and his work has received support worth over $150m. He has also supervised 50 doctoral candidates to completion and mentored over 25 postdoctoral researchers. He is the recipient of the 2018 ASCE Computing in Civil Engineering Award and is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Construction.
Jon Antevy is a recognized leader in the field of construction program management software. In 1994, following the completion of his master’s thesis research on multimedia and internet applications for the construction industry, he launched e-Builder.
In 1995, Jon Antevy was nominated by Engineering News-Record magazine as one of the Top 25 Newsmakers of the Year for his work to move practical construction applications onto the web. In 2012, he was awarded the Construction Writer’s Association most prestigious honor, the Silver Hard Hat Award. In 2018, Trimble acquired e-Builder for $500 million to accelerate the industry transformation by providing an integrated project delivery solution for owners, program managers and contractors across the design, construct and operate lifecycle.
Mark Enzer is a keen champion of innovation in the context of collaborative delivery models and he is particularly interested in the transformation of the infrastructure industry, including: systems-thinking, digital transformation, connected digital twins, information infrastructure, low-carbon sustainable solutions and the circular economy in the built environment.
As Mott MacDonald’s Chief Technical Officer, he is accountable to the Executive Board for technical excellence across the Group. As the Head of the NDTp within the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), Mark provides leadership for this ambitious programme. In addition, he is the Digital Transformation workstream lead on “Project 13” for the Infrastructure Client Group, which represents the UK’s major infrastructure client organisations. He was the Lead Author of the Infrastructure Carbon Review, published by HM Treasury.
Professor Annabelle Gawer is a thought-leader and expert advisor on the business of digital platforms and platform-based innovation ecosystems. Author of 20 articles on platforms and of 4 books, Prof Gawer’s research has been featured in The Financial Times, the BBC World Service, the Economist, The New York Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Forbes, the MIT Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Harvard Deusto Business Review and the Harvard Business Review.
She advises the European Commission on the regulation of online platforms as an expert member of the European Commission’s Observatory of the Online Platform Economy. She has also advised the UK Parliament House of Lords, the UK Government, and the OECD. She regularly consults for major international corporations on platform and ecosystem strategy.
Jennifer Whyte is the Royal Academy of Engineering and Laing O’Rourke Professor of Systems Integration at Imperial College London. She is a co-investigator on the Transforming Construction Network Plus. Her research is on systems integration, digital engineering and delivery in the construction and built environment sectors. She is Director of the Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation, a Faculty of Engineering Centre hosted in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. She has held many research grants, published high-impact research papers, authored a book, and led multidisciplinary research teams.
She was Shimizu Visiting Professor at Stanford in 2015. She gave oral evidence to a 2018 UK Lord’s Select Committee Inquiry on Offsite Manufacturing for Construction. She is a member of Construction Leadership Council and the Transforming Construction Advisory Group.
Lisa Ellram is University Distinguished Professor and the Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University in Oxford, where she teaches logistics and supply chain management at the undergraduate and graduate level. Prior to that she was the John and Barbara Bebbling Professor of Business at Arizona State University. Her primary areas of research interest include sustainability in purchasing, transportation and supply chain management; services purchasing and supply chain management; offshoring and outsourcing; and supply chain cost management and finance. She has published in numerous top journals spanning a variety of disciplines, including managerial and academic outlets. She is Co-Editor in Chief Emeritus for the Journal of Supply Chain Management (2007-2016), and is currently Senior Associate Editor at Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management and on the editorial board of several other journals. She has co-authored eight books, including academic books and textbooks. She has taught/presented in more than 30 countries on 6 continents. While she collects data in various way, she really enjoys speaking directly with practitioners to develop an understanding of the real problems that they face in supply chain management.
Nigel Ostime co-leads the Specialist Design Studio at Hawkins\Brown Architects, a practice of around 275 people located in London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Los Angeles. He has over 25 years’ experience in the design and delivery of complex projects in a range of sectors, principally residential, commercial and transport infrastructure. His current role focusses on process and productivity, with a particular emphasis on modern methods of construction and digital technology.
He is a member of the RIBA Practice & Profession Committee and chair of the RIBA Client Liaison Group, which provides an interface between the institute and client representative bodies. He is author of a number of books for the RIBA and is a visiting lecturer at the AA, Bartlett, Cambridge, Manchester and Westminster schools of architecture.
As Global Solutions Director Sarah is leading across the portfolio of Arcadis’ solutions, ensuring we bring the best of Arcadis to serve the needs of our clients driving innovation and transformation. Sarah is an expert in strategy development, digital transformation and leads our Business Advisory capability globally.
She has more than twenty years of experience working in the AEC industry and has spent the last few years driving digital transformation and exploring new business models for the industry. Sarah very passionate about driving positive change in the AEC industry to build a more sustainable world and is currently working closely with ACE on the Future of Consultancy in respect of new business models linked to the Construction Innovation Hub’s work on the Value Toolkit.
Matt Yeates is Managing Director, Digital Ventures at Tata Steel Europe. He has held a variety of Supply Chain leadership roles with Tata Steel Europe, his responsibilities have covered S&OP, execution planning and logistics with a major transformation program deployed across the business.
Most recently he has been focused on digital transformation activities in the Supply Chain and Commercial space, leading new business ventures.
Previously he worked for 10 years in the electronics value chain.
Jan Godsell is a Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy at WMG, University of Warwick. Her work focuses on the pursuit of more responsible consumption and production through the alignment of product, marketing and supply chain strategy with consumer needs. She leads the Supply Chain Research Group and the Supply Chains in Practice industrial collaborator forum.
As a chartered engineer, Jan has more than two decades of combined industry experience in product development, innovation, supply chain strategy, and process improvement working for ICI, Astra Zeneca and Dyson. She has served on numerous advisory boards, and is currently a member of the Made Smarter Expert Panel and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Advisory Group.
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