Design for Deconstruction

Thursday, 23 April 2015, 9 am – 4.15 pm

www.ntu.ac.uk/DfDConference

Contents

Introduction

Keynote speaker profiles

Programme

Delegate information

Introduction

A modern era truism is that "waste is a design flaw".Consequently true, the demolition industry does notcreate waste but handles that which others put there.

Construction will never be truly sustainable untilconsideration is given, during design and planning, tothe deconstruction legacy.

Design for Deconstruction (DfD) has been aroundconstruction for some time but has never engagedwith the sector that deconstructs.

This conference brings together, for the first time,those that design, specify, construct, manage andlegally frame construction projects with those thattake them down and handle the deconstructionlegacy.

The conference will consider nano-technology andhow this may impact in deconstruction. You will hearabout the extensive work being done on steel re-useand reclamation, and how Building InformationModelling (BIM) could be extended intodeconstruction. The conference will also discuss howone might establish a legal obligation fordeconstruction as part of the initial design andplanning of a building.

This conference is held in partnership withThe Institute of Demolition Engineers (IDE)and the Construction Industry Council(CIC).

Keynote speaker profiles

Paul Morrell OBEPaul is a chartered quantity surveyor and was formerlya senior partner of Davis Langdon (now part ofAecom), where he worked since graduating fromuniversity until retiring in 2007.

He was subsequently appointed as the UKGovernment's first Chief Construction Adviser inNovember 2009, with a brief to champion a morecoordinated approach to affordable, sustainableconstruction.

He has extensive experience of major constructionprojects in both the public and private sectors, with aparticular specialisation in commercial development,value management and procurement strategy andpractice.

He is a Fellow of The Royal Institution of ChartedSurveyors (RICS) and the Institute of Civil Engineers(ICE), and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute ofBritish Architects (RIBA) and the Association forProject Management. He served as a Commissioneron the Government’s Commission for Architectureand the Built Environment from 2000 to 2008; andwas awarded an OBE for services to the industry in the2009 New Year Honours list.

In Government, Paul chaired the GovernmentConstruction Board, responsible for the developmentof a new cross-Government construction strategy,targeting a reduction of 20% in the cost of publicsector construction.

He now practises as an independent consultant, and isa Visiting Professor at Nottingham Trent University.

Alistair GibbAlistair is a Chartered Engineer, CharteredConstruction Manager and the European ConstructionInstitute (ECI) - Royal Academy of EngineeringProfessor of complex project management. He joinedLoughborough University in 1993, following a careerin civil engineering and construction management,especially in complex projects.

He has an impressive research track record in technicalinnovation – particularly offsite construction and morerecently nanotechnology. He is a founding memberof the influential UK industry body Bodyoffsite andhas led a number of overseas trade missions.

He is Project Director of the European ConstructionInstitute (ECI) Safety, Health and Environment taskforce and coordinator of the Conseil Internationale deBatiment (CIB) working commission on constructionhealth and safety. He also has led many health andsafety research projects funded both by the UKGovernment and industry. He led several researchprojects on the Olympic Park developments. Alistair iscurrently working as an Occupational Safety andHealth Consultant Adviser on a major multi-national infrastructure project.

Wendy JonesWendy is a Specialist Occupational Health Practitionerand a registered ergonomist. She is employed as aresearcher in the School of Civil and BuildingEngineering at Loughborough University,investigating the long term health impacts ofnanotechnology in the construction and demolitionsectors. This is a three year project funded by TheInstitute of Safety and Health and supported by theIDE and the National Federation of Demolition.

Wendy also researches other areas of health andsafety in construction, including the development oftraining tools for construction employees who are atrisk of occupational ill health. She previously workedas an occupational health adviser, providing training,support and expert advice to individuals andorganisations in the water, gas, healthcare andeducation sectors.

John DowlingJohn is the Sustainability Manager at BritishConstructional Steelwork Association. He is agraduate of the Universities of Limerick andStrathclyde. He worked in the marine, offshore andconsultancy sectors before joining the steelconstruction sector. His specialist areas of expertiseare design for fire and sustainable construction.

Jonathan CullenJonathan is a lecturer in Energy, Transport and UrbanInfrastructure in the Department of Engineering atthe University of Cambridge. He holds an MPhil inEngineering for Sustainable Development and a PhDentitled Engineering fundamentals of energyefficiency, both from the University of Cambridge.Jonathan continued working as a Research Associatein the WellMet2050 research programme and workedon novel material efficiency options for reducingdemand for energy intensive materials, which isdescribed in the book entitled Sustainable Materials:with both eyes open.

Jonathan is currently a co-investigator on the UKInDemand project and his research interests includewhole energy systems, energy and material demandreduction and low carbon-energy technologies.

Christopher TrottChris graduated from the University of Wales with aFirst Class Honours in Civil Engineering and went on togain an MSc in Building Services Engineering from theUniversity of Glasgow. After graduating he joinedArup in 1981 and there gained 30 years of experiencein existing and new sustainable building design,master planning, low and zero carbon site-wideinfrastructure design and sustainable building andpolicy consultancy.

Whilst director of Arup’s Sustainable Buildings Teamhe directed the firm’s Sustainable Buildings Approachwithin the UK and Middle East developing particularexpertise in technical solutions integrating socio-economic and environmental thinking.

He joined Foster + Partners in 2011 as a foundingpartner of the Engineering Team, which bringsintegrated engineering design to projects across thepractice.

His recent building projects include BloombergLondon, the headquarters for Bloomberg financialservices, various buildings at the Apple Campus inCupertino and Chateau Margaux winery, Bordeaux.He has led sustainable engineering masterplan inputto the Mata de Sesimbra project near Lisbon and theSanta Giulia development in Milan.

Chris is a frequent conference speaker and recentpresentations include Turning sustainability intobusiness advantage for the construction and propertysectors at Ecobuild, Delivering Sustainable Buildings,Guardian Design for Life Conference, and A Model ofBehaviour, Chartered Institution of Building ServicesEngineers (CIBSE) Building Simulation Group seminar;Designing for better indoor environmental qualitybuildings.

Stefan MordueStefan is a chartered Architect, Construction ProjectManager and writer, passionate about change withinthe construction industry.

Interested in the practical application of BIM, he isauthor of a number of publications including the NBSBIM Object Standard and co-author of BIM forconstruction health and Safety (RIBA Publishing) andthe forthcoming title BIM for Dummies (WileyPublishing) as part of the world’s bestselling referenceseries.

Stefan is currently working on a joint project forNational Building Specification (NBS) and the UKGovernment’s BIM Task Group, to produce a BIMToolkit in preparation for the government mandate tohave all public buildings built with BIM by 2016, whichwill shape the future of construction for many years tocome.

Stefan sits on a number of industry and technicalstandard committees for both the CIC and BritishStandards Institute, including the CIC BIM Forum andBSI HS/001 and was a founding member of theCIC BIM 2050 group.

Richard BarlowRichard is a Partner at solicitors Browne Jacobson LLP,with over 25 years’ experience of advising on a widerange of environmental, planning and public law.Richard is Browne Jacobson’s Head of Public Sector.Richard acts for a wide range of organisations in thepublic and private sectors. Richard is Chair of theNottingham Green Partnership and also Chair of theUnited Kingdom Environmental Law AssociationNature Conservation Working Party. He is also a LegalAssociate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

Programme

9 am – 9.30 am Registration and refreshments Nottingham Conference Centre

9.30 am –9.40 am Welcome

Peter Westland Dean, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University (NTU)

9.40 am – 10 am Keynote address

Paul Morrell OBE, Visiting Professor, NTU; chartered quantity surveyor, former senior partner of Davis Langdon; UK Government's first Chief Construction Adviser, November 2009 – November 2012

10 am –10.20 am

The demolition industry perspectiveon the design for deconstruction issues

The Institute of Demolition Engineers

10.20 am –11.10 am

Nano technology and materialsWith panel discussion

Prof Alistair Gibb and Dr Wendy Jones, the School of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University

11.10 am Morning break

11.30 am –12.20 pm

Steel re-use and reclamation With panel discussion

John Dowling, British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA),and Jonathan Cullen, University of Cambridge

12.20 Lunch break

1.40 pm –2 pm

Design issues and principles relatedto Design for Deconstruction

Christopher Trott, Sustainability Engineer; Partner, Foster + PartnersQueen Victoria Hospital, West Sussex

2 pm –2.50 pm

Should BIM also be DIM?With panel discussion Stefan Mordue, National Building Specification (NBS)

2.50 pm Afternoon break

3.10 pm –4 pm Creating the legal obligation

With panel discussion Richard Barlow, Partner, Browne Jacobson

4 pm –4.15 pm Q&A and closing remarks

Delegate information

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•Non-smoking venue: Nottingham Trent Universityis a non-smoking venue. Smoking is permittedoffsite on Goldsmith Street, away from the entranceand steps.

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