Constructing Excellence South West SW Peninsula Roadshow

Exeter, Plymouth & Truro

Thursday/Friday 20th/21st November 2014

Andrew Carpenter

Chief Executive

Constructing Excellence South West

• The story so far

• Clubs’ Update

• Forums’ Update

• Regional Conferences’ Update

• CESW/CIOB Built Environment Awards

• Newsletter/Web Site Update

• CESW Academy/Consultants Update

• Interesting activities

• Future Events

• Future Priorities

• 2025 Construction Strategy

• Skills Shortages

• BIM

Agenda

• High level Board of ten in place withy confirmation of two more expected

• Steering Committee taking shape

• LEP’s participating (6)

• Cornwall & Isles of Scilly has involved us in the writing & now delivery of their strategy

• Wiltshire has asked to view the Cornwall strategy and we are due to meet with them on 18th December

• Dorset meeting arranged for 3rd December to discuss our involvement

• Heart of the South West CEO present here today and relationship is building (mainly around Hinkley Point)

• West of England LEP asked me to present to their construction team in July 2014

• Gloucestershire LEP only recently contacted

• National Members (6)

• Igloo Regeneration, Environment Agency, Burgess Salmon, Magnox & Structural Timber Association all engaged

• Nationwide about to engage

The Story so far

• Universities (6)

• Bristol, UWE, Plymouth & Bath all engaged

• Exeter & Cornwall about to engage

• Poole & Bournemouth and Weymouth & Portland Colleges suggested also

• Any others?

• Industry Bodies (9)

• RIBA, CIOB, CITB, CIC, RICS, LABC, HCA, ICE & Genesis Centre all engaged

• HSE awaiting confirmation

• Supply Chain (12)

• RLB, Aquarian, Trowers & Hamlin, Devon CC, Keystone Law, Lucas Fettes, RPR-CMS, ADP Architects, CMS Group, Cube Design, BAM and Turner & Townsend all engaged with others being added all the time

The Story so far

• Robert Knight, Igloo Regeneration & CCG – Chairman

• David Renwick, Ocean Housing – Vice Chairman

• Rob Benson, Midas Group – Treasurer

• Andrew Goodenough, Bristol Airport

• David Snell, Kier Construction

• John Boughton, Willmott Dixon

• Shane Paull, McCarthy & Stone

• Bill Button, NVB Architects

• Neil Stevens, SMTS

• Stephen Homer, Ashfords LLP

• Awaiting confirmation from John Gallagher, Magnox & G4C

• Replacement for Damian Leydon, EDF-Energy to be announced

Board Update

• Bristol – Active as ever

• Cornwall – Best Practice Case Study from Simon Caklais

• Devon & Exeter – Re-established in January and finding its feet

• Dorset – Re-established in May with a nucleus of keen supporters & three successful events

• Gloucester – New management team in place

• Plymouth – Management team have got a ‘second wind’ so watch out in 2015!

• Swindon & Wiltshire – Re-established in April with a nucleus of keen supporters

• Other

• New Hinkley Point (Somerset) Club about to be launched in early 2015

• National Representative – Jeremy Dunn, Ward Williams of Cornwall Club recently volunteered

Clubs’ Update

• CCGSW – Excellent feedback from two meetings to date – next one planned for 24th February 2015

• Procurement – Presentation from Martyn Jones to follow

• G4CSW – Hugely successful launch in Bristol in July and now looking to extend around the region

• BIM4Housing – Launched in January we are in the middle of a series of six conferences being held around the UK

• New Forums

• Marcoms – Scoping meeting planned for 11th December

• Lean/Logistics – First meeting planned for January 2015

Forums’ Update

• Bristol April 2014 (100+ people – good as ever!)

• Wiltshire April 2014 (38 people with excellent feedback)

• Dorset May 2014 (24 people with excellent feedback)

• Devon & Somerset 2014 (65 people with excellent feedback)

• Cornwall (80 people with a waiting list!)

• Gloucestershire (24 people with excellent feedback)

• Conferences for 2015 already being planned

Regional Conference Update

• 13th June 2014

• Record sponsorship

• Record entries

• Record attendance

• 2014

• Friday 12th June 2015

• Marriott City Centre Bristol Hotel

• Please consider putting yourselves forward

CESW/CIOB SW Built Environment Awards Update

• Web Site very well received………………….but

• Not all have provided necessary information/photo

• Very few members maximising its potential i.e. CV’s

• Newsletter

• First one issued late July

• Intention to issue every four – six weeks depending on news/information requirements

• More stories welcome (poor response so far from most people)

Web Site/Newsletter Update

• CESW Academy

• First short course originally planned for October/November 2014 now delayed until early 2015

• Good initial interest

• Turning interest into bookings has been difficult

• Content needed to be more tailored

• Consultants Team

• Excellent team of eight built up

• All prepared to offer commission

• 20% if we present an opportunity to them

• 10% if they get business direct from our web site

• Good potential income stream for CESW

• One project already carried out with four more in the pipeline

CESW Academy/Consultants Update

• The Hive – presentation by Dr Eve Walkden to follow shortly

• Built Intelligence – presentation from Chris Corr to follow shortly

• Case Studies – Aquarian Cladding first example

Interesting Activities

Building Research Park

• Dr Eve Walkden

www.bath.ac.uk/brp

@hivebrp

building-research-park@bath.ac.uk

Contents

• The Background

• Exploitation of the Building Research Park

• Facilities

• The future

The Balehaus (2009)

The Hempod (2010)

The Chancellors’ Building

Opportunity

• Archive store at the Science Museum, Wroughton

Key Facilities

• The HIVE

• 16 experimental ‘pods’

• Opportunity for long term

• exposure tests on materials

• Planning all pre-approved

• ‘Plug and play’ facility • Utilities • Data loggers • Supervision • Maintenance

Summary • Entire panels and connections

• Air tightness, Weather resistance, Thermal efficiency, Acoustic efficiency, Hygrothermal performance, Double skin façades

• Novel Construction materials • Buildability, FRP durability, Fabric Formed Concrete, Composite panels, Monitoring

Technology • Intelligent monitoring, training software models

• Environmental performance • Validating wind tunnel tests, evaluating Passiv Haus construction techniques, Flood

resistance, Wind load resistance

• Technical support for industry • Testing, Evaluation, Demonstration, Full scale trials

Thank you

www.bath.ac.uk/brp

@hivebrp

building-research-park@bath.ac.uk

• Wednesday 3rd December Dorset Club BIM Conference – RNLI, Poole

• Thursday 11th December Marcoms Forum Meeting – Ashfords, Exeter

• Tuesday 16th December CESW Board Meeting – Bristol Airport

• Thursday 18th December CESW/Swindon & Wiltshire LEP Construction Strategy Scoping Meeting – Chippenham

• Full programme for 2015 to be announced shortly

Future Events

• 2025 Construction Strategy (Peter Hansford has enlarged on this)

• Skills Shortages

• BIM (Peter Vale has enlarged on this)

• A little less conversation a little more action please! – our strapline for 2015

• Others?

Future Priorities

Carpe Diem: Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive, CESW

2014

Thought for the day:

The opportunity of a lifetime has to

be grasped in the lifetime of the

opportunity

Rethinking Construction