Robynne Hammer is the chief operating officer at EDGE and has been involved in managing the inception of the concept to lead a fully functional showroom. Her focus is to bring the ease of more conscious living and environmental awareness into the lives of all through as many mediums as
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Adam Taylor-Drake, Head of IoT, Aico|HomeLINK An experienced engineer and entrepreneur, Adam is a co-founder and Head of IoT at HomeLINK. He has a background in robotics & AI, secure military communications and deploying IoT solutions across multiple sectors. Passionate about bringing positive social change through the application of innovative
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This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 13.45-14.00 Smart rainwater management Rainwater sits at the nexus of flood and drought. Smart rainwater management means you can save water and solve your surface water flooding issues with one
Read more »This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 15.45-16.00 Designing low carbon buildings of the future – how flowing screeds can help to meet the Future Homes Standard 2025 The Future Homes Standard 2025 states new builds must
Read more »This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 14.45-15.00 Innovative windpost helps meet stringent thermal specifications The revolutionary Ancon Thermal Windpost (TWP2) is designed to span vertically between floors, to provide additional lateral support for panels of masonry.
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Simon Shaw, Industry 4.0 Strategic Account Manager – EMEA/APAC, Cintoo Cloud Simon Shaw has been working at Cintoo since 2018 and manages Cintoo’s portfolio of Industry 4.0 clients in the Oil and Gas, Automotive and Engineering sectors. Simon has over 20 years’ sales and marketing experience in the B2B space
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Lorna Devenish, Market Development Manager – New Technology Services, SDS Limited After 11 years working for a Water Company, Lorna has spent the last five years helping to develop smart rainwater management systems. Passionate about sustainable water management, biodiversity and the environment, she’s currently working to bring the potential of smart
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Roger Littlewood, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Roger is Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s project manager for DEEP. A graduate of the University of Bath, most of his career to date has been in the energy and climate change sector, and has been a Civil Servant
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Dr Diana Casey, Director, MPA Cement Diana joined MPA in 2010 and now has a dual role of Director, MPA Cement and Director, Energy and Climate Change. As Director, MPA Cement, Diana has overall responsibility for the cement product group including environmental regulation, products and standards, and ensuring delivery of
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Paul Reynolds is CEO of FSD Active Limited, a company which is bringing to market innovative technology for controlling vibrations of building floors. He was previously a Professor at the Universities of Sheffield and Exeter, where he led more than 15 years of research in this field. Paul has also
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Alex is a programme manager leading Department for Energy Security and Net Zero’s £16.5m Electrification of Heat programme. At BEIS he works in the Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy (SICE) directorate within the Built Innovation team. His career to date has seen him work with low carbon heating
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Nicola is an Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Energy Innovation Programme Manager leading on the £60m Net Zero Innovation Portfolio Heat Pump Ready Programme. In this role Nicola combines her academic background in civil engineering, which focused on pile foundation heat exchangers and her experience leading innovation programmes
Read more »Tim is the co-head of the Built Innovation team in the Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy Directorate (SICE) within the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Built Innovation team delivers programmes to accelerate the commercialisation of low-carbon technologies and to support decarbonising our homes and buildings.
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Dr Natasha Boulding is the founder and CEO of Low Carbon Materials, a company developing product-based solutions for the concrete sector in the race to Net-Zero. She holds a PhD in Materials Science and has many years of academic and industrial experience, both in the UK and internationally. Since establishing
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Sam Cryer, CEO and Founder, Thermulon Sam is a pioneer in the building industry, leveraging his PhD in synthetic chemistry to invent a novel process for the production of silica-based super-insultating aerogels at technology startup Thermulon, with one clear goal: to reduce the carbon footprint of the building stock and
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Dr Oliver Jones, Research Director, Ryder Architecture Working with an international network of thought leaders, innovators and disruptors Oliver is an active ambassador for net zero futures to work towards a net-zero future and promote the next generation of standards and guidance.
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Miriam Zachau Walker is the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund Programme Manager and looks after projects awarded funding in Phase 8. At Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, she provides technical advice for policy development and innovation projects across a range of subjects, including renewable energy generation, energy storage technologies, artificial
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Sarah Butler, Energy Innovation Programme Manager, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero Sarah Butler is an Energy Innovation Programme Manager within the UK Government Department for Energy Security & Net Zero. Her current role focuses on innovative programmes and projects seeking to support a smarter, more flexible and decarbonised
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Vicky Fordham-Lewis, Managing Director, Osborne Property Services Vicky Fordham-Lewis was welcomed into the role of Managing Director for Osborne Property Services Ltd, its social housing services business. Joining Osborne in September 2020, at a very pivotal time, she has made significant inroads – reinforcing the businesses focus on customer service,
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Rebecca Rees – Partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins. Rebecca is a leading national expert in public procurement law and has significant experience in advising clients in the public, private and third sectors on public procurement, subsidy control and building safety strategy
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Emilia Cardamone, Associate Director – Digital, Turner & Townsend Emilia Cardamone is an Architectural and Construction Engineer, with several years of experience in the market, covering different aspects such as Digital Construction, Digital Twins and Smart Buildings. She is currently working as Associate Director- Digital within the Digital Real Estate
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David Clowe, Head of MMC, Turner & Townsend As demand grows for construction methods that drive productivity and sustainability improvements, Dave will spearhead the development and expansion of Turner & Townsend’s MMC advisory service across cost management and project management to provide clients with suitable MMC techniques that deliver higher
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Neil Pennell is Head of Design Innovation & Property Solutions at Landsec, one of the UK’s leading property companies. He is responsible for the design and development of innovative, environmentally sustainable and technically excellent buildings. Neil is a senior thought leader specialising in technical and innovative solutions for Landsec’s current
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Caron Johnson, Sustainable Construction Lead, Ministry of Justice Caron Johnson is sustainable construction lead for the Ministry of Justice’s New Prison expansion plan, a £4bn programme to deliver 18,000 new prison places. In this role she has created new policies and raised standards to meet government ambitions on climate change
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Ahsan Khan, Director of Research and Innovation, TrustMark Ahsan is Director of Research and Innovation and leads the Data Driven Decarbonisation programme bringing together Government, Industry and Academia to develop, support and exploit data driven approaches to national and place-based decarbonisation activity. Ahsan and his team have been instrumental in
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Maria Hudson, CMO, BuildData Group With over 20 years’ experience, Maria has led global marketing teams at SaaS companies including SDL, Acision, Mavenir and Sensat, with responsibility for brand building, corporate marketing, communications, digital experience and demand generation across these companies. As a collaborative leader, at BuildData Maria is leading
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Mark has been the Head of Technical and Operations at Radmat for the past 10 years. He has over thirty five years’ experience in the flat roofing sector working with Hot Melt, Bitumen, Single Ply and Liquid Applied Membrane technologies and has/does represented each product group at Trade Association level.
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Philip Baker is the Construction Industry Council’s Deputy Health and Safety Champion and sits on the CIC Health and Safety Committee. Having trained as a Building Engineer and worked in design practice, Philip has spent the last 28 years embedded in all matters related to the Construction (Design and Management)
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Tom Wilcock is the Digital Services Leader for Arup’s UK, India, Middle East and Africa (UKIMEA) business. His focus is on applying emerging digital technologies to transform traditional design processes and create better physical and social systems for clients and communities. In his time at Arup, Tom has pioneered the
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Helen Hough, Head of Sustainabilty, Bryden Wood Helen is an experienced Sustainability Designer with a background in architecture and mechanical services. Her specialism of Building Physics brings together her broad experience of building design, energy demands and low carbon and sustainable solutions. Helen leads the Building Physics and Sustainability team
Read more »Retrofitting solid walled homes; what research tells us about the importance of a whole house approach, and how real performance compares to EPCs Chair: Roger Littlewood, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Panel: Professor David Glew, Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute (LSI), Leeds Beckett University
Read more »Learn early findings from the UK’s largest heat pump innovation programme, directly from the project teams working on the innovations. Chair: Sally Fenton, Co-head of the Built Innovation team – Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy Directorate (SICE), Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Speakers: Richard Jack,
Read more »Find out about current government policy on heat pumps, learn about the UK’s largest heat pump innovation programme and about future heat pump innovation. Chair: Sally Fenton, Co-head of the Built Innovation team – Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy Directorate (SICE), Department for Energy Security and Net
Read more »This session will see product and innovation presentations from Innovation Partners, who you can also visit on the Innovation Trail. 15.15-15.30 Digitising production to make it easier to integrate re-use MCB Atelier is a Brussels-based company active in wood processing it is also a local ecosystem that allows to push
Read more »This session will see product and innovation presentations from our Net Zero Pioneers – those leading the way at scale on the journey to net zero. Chair: Andrew Cameron Smith, Content & Editorial Director, Unlock Net Zero 13.30-13.50 The challenges of decarbonising heat 17% of the UK’s emissions come from
Read more »Online newspaper for schools The Day, together with the LEGO Group, are giving students the chance to have a say on sustainability issues and express their hopes for the future through a weekly free sustainability resource, called Build the Change Tuesday. Students debate and discuss sustainability issues in the news,
Read more »This session will see shortlisted innovative start-ups and SME’s from the Innovation Pavilion battle it out in a ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitch, to become winner of the new Big Ideas Pitch 2023. Chair: Dr Oliver Jones, Research Director, Ryder Architecture Pitchers: Phanos Hadjikyriakou, Co-Founder & CEO, 2050 Materials Agnes Czako,
Read more »This session will provide a brief overview of the Energy Entrepreneurs Fund (EEF) which is part of the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The Energy Entrepreneurs Fund is a competitive funding scheme to support the development and demonstration of state-of-the-art technologies, products and processes in the areas of energy efficiency, power
Read more »The session will introduce the Flexibility Innovation Programme which is part of the £1 billion Net Zero Innovation Portfolio. The ability to shift energy in time or location to balance supply and demand is essential for decarbonising power, buildings and transport and could bring down yearly system costs by up
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Alison Nicholl, Head of Constructing Excellence, BRE Alison has a background in knowledge transfer, driving innovation and change into the construction sector both in the UK and overseas. Alison is currently Head of Constructing Excellence, where she works with its members and wider movement to drive positive change in the
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Duncan Grassie, Research Fellow, University College London Duncan Grassie is currently completing his PhD at the Institute of Environmental Design and Engineering, hopefully completing his viva by the time of FutureBuild. His PhD investigated feedback mechanisms, data quality and modelling constraints of a data crowdsourcing platform which could inform future
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Joanne Hiscock, Head of Strategic Asset Management, Moat Homes Joanne Hiscock is the Head of Strategic Asset Management at Moat Housing and currently manages the Sustainability Team, Asset Team and Building Safety Information Manager. She has worked in social housing for over 24 years and has 16 years specifically within
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Nik Flytzanis, Global Director of Marketplace, Plentific Nik Flytzanis is the Head of Global Marketplace and Supply Chain at Plentific. He owns global responsibility for the commercial success of Plentific’s technology-enabled marketplace of contractors and suppliers to ensure clients receive excellent service and contractors gain access to great jobs. Nik
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Kartik Amrania is the Head of Building Sustainability at Sweco UK. Under Kartik’s leadership, Sweco has delivered some of the most sustainable buildings in the UK and therefore allocated three times BREEAM Company of the year. Specialising in the sustainable design of the built environment, Kartik has close to two
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Hannah Smith, Sustainability Programme Manager, RBKC Hannah is the Sustainability Programme Manager for the Lancaster West Neighbourhood Team, responsible for co-designing and delivering on commitments for Lancaster West to become a net-zero carbon eco-neighbourhood by 2030.
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