Buildoffsite member profiles

Accio

Accio Group has consistently proven itself to be one of Europe’s leading suppliers of temporary structure solutions to the corporate and private markets. The company’s dedicated team of highly trained professionals offer expert project management and can provide a range of solutions to meet individual client’s needs.

Specialising in delivering world-leading temporary structures, Accio Group is renowned for its ability to deliver projects on time and on budget. The company has worked with many high profile clients including Emap, HSBC, Land Rover, Nissan, RBS, Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Thomas Cook, Toyota and UKTV. Accio Group’s impressive experience encompasses installing and maintaining temporary retail space, accommodation, cafés, classrooms, disaster relief, emergency facilities for banks and businesses, emergency medical facilities, support facilities and weather protection.

Accio Group are a solution provider and can provide a full range of M and E and H and V support to complete your project. The company is a progressive organisation dedicated to changing traditional build thought processes and its technical expertise is second-to-none. Accio Group has been at the forefront of embracing new technologies in the projects it has been tasked to deliver and the company’s expert project managers are experienced in developing a range of solutions.

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Stephen Casey

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AcerMetric Limited are an engineering design and intellectual property company who have created “The AcerMetric Versatile Flat Pack Frameless Building System”, which enables a significant range of accommodation to be built using one simple hand tool, quickly and economically.

The unique build offsite manufacture enables an almost infinite style and size of sustainable energy-efficient housing to be constructed, creating quality buildings at an affordable price.

The versatility of the system covers a broad spectrum of the construction market and can therefore be sub-divided into many different business models ranging from a significant number of accommodation sectors for various industries through to bespoke architecturally designed houses and multi-storey apartments. An initial three bedroom five person UK demonstration house has been constructed. Commercialisation of The AcerMetric System via manufacturing, installation and sales licences/partners worldwide, is now underway.

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David Appleford

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Anglian Water/@one Alliance
The @one Alliance is a collaborative organisation, constituted in October 2004. It was formed to deliver the large part of Anglian Water’s investment programme, covering approximately £750m of work. It comprises seven separate groups:

• Anglian Water Engineering

• Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions
  

• Barhale
  

• Biwater
  

• Black & Veatch
  

• Grontmij
  

• Skanska-Aker Kvaerner.

With a collective capability that spans all aspects of design and construction of water and astewater assets, the Alliance is focused on delivering a lean capital programme.

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Mark Enzer

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Aquatherm Sales UK is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Ormandy Group of Companies and is the UK provider of the Aquatherm GmbH range of products. Thirty-five years of constant product development have seen Aquatherm maintain a market leading position for producing the most advanced and environmentally innovative plastic piping systems for the building service(s), and process industries.

The range consists of Aquatherm pressure piping systems, underfloor heating solutions, fire sprinkler system, “fire stop”, and our exclusive wall/ceiling heating and chilled water system “Climasystem”, providing a highly efficient low energy thermal barrier to every kind of building.

Aquatherm’s polypropylene piping system is considered to be the most environmentally friendly on the market. Polypropylene is a chemically inert material, creating minimal pollutants, and takes less energy to produce, install and run than traditional materials. It is also fully recyclable.

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Brook Nolson

Tel: 01444 250500
Email sales@aquatherm-uk.com

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Armstrong is an industry leader in HVAC systems providing a comprehensive service as a leading designer, manufacturer, installer and servicer of low carbon heating, cooling and pumping solutions, from innovative component HVAC products to fully packaged integrated plant rooms and energy centres.

We have extended our expertise and experience to meet the energy requirements of clients with unique solutions that highlight our commitment to innovation, service and the wider community. We also channel feedback on every level. Armstrong brings together two specialised facilities in Manchester and Birmingham offering heating, cooling, and pumping services for non-domestic buildings. With worldwide resources, we take a unified approach to quality manufacturing. We maintain eight manufacturing facilities on three continents, with a client base in 50+ countries.

Armstrong’s fully integrated information system links our facilities operations on a 24-hour basis, which speeds production flow and ensures control over all phases of manufacturing and delivery. Our capabilities and resources enable us to offer an integrated solution that provides
return on investment, reduced capital expense and reduces operational costs throughout a building’s lifecycle.

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Richard Strode

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Arup

Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world.

Our innovative and fully-integrated approach brings our full complement of skills and knowledge to bear on any given design problem. We exert a significant influence on the built environment, and are the creative force behind many of the world’s most innovative and sustainable designs.

Our firm has almost 10,500 staff working in 80 offices in more than 37 countries worldwide. At any one time, we have over 10,000 projects running concurrently.

Arup has professional skills in three principal areas of activity – buildings, infrastructure and consulting – although our multi-disciplinary approach means that any given project may involve people from any or all of the sectors or regions in which we operate. Our fundamental aim is to bring together the best professionals in the world to meet our clients’ needs.

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John Miles

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AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, innovation-driven, integrated biopharmaceutical company. Our mission is to make a meaningful difference to patient health through great medicines that bring benefit for patients, and add value for our stakeholders and society.

Global Engineering is the major projects delivery organisation of the company, providing professional engineering and project, programme and portfolio management of the company’s investment and asset change portfolio. Based in four global centres (US, UK, Sweden and China) the organisation’s vision is to meet the company’s investment needs, safely and at the best value, by professional, capable resource that meet the specific needs of our business.

As part of our commitment to driving Lean execution and delivery throughout our supply chains, as members of Buildoffsite, we seek to ensure we provide a coherent and challenging client input into the work of this group.

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Mike Mungall

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BAA plc

BAA has an ambitious investment plan to transform its airports with £4.8 billion being spent at Heathrow alone to completely renovate and rebuild the airport’s facilities, and enhance the passenger experience.

This includes exciting plans for a new £2.2 billion Terminal 2 at Heathrow, which will become the new home for Star Alliance airlines. This will provide an estimated 20 million passengers every year with a spacious and modern airport facility.

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Giles Price

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BIS

Our mission is building a dynamic and competitive UK economy by:
- creating the conditions for business success
- promoting innovation, enterprise and science
- giving everyone the skills and opportunities to succeed.
To achieve this we will foster world-class universities and promote an open global
economy.

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Barry Blackwell

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British Gypsum

British Gypsum, part of the Saint-Gobain group, is the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of plaster, plasterboard and dry-lining systems. With a long history of providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable products that meet the demands of the construction industry, the company is renowned for its pioneering work in training, as well as its forward-thinking strategy on innovation and product development.

British Gypsum offers a range of innovative products and services, ideal for off-site manufacturing where consistency, reliability and material robustness are essential. Tangible benefits to the process include:

• Manufacturing cost savings through process reduction
• Consistency in product quality and dimensional accuracy
• Product durability – great for off-site applications
• Certainty that products will comply with National Building Regulations
• Adaptability and flexibility of products
• Environmental sustainability – with the British Gypsum Plasterboard Recycling Service.

British Gypsum provides an unrivalled technical service with a network of Saint-Gobain Technical Academies and UKAS accredited test centres offering substantiated test data to meet ongoing project requirements. This technical capability allows British Gypsum to offer bespoke products, developed with the customer to meet their needs exactly.

British Gypsum has a UK-wide distribution network allowing fast and easy access to our group product ranges.

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Andy Higson

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Bryden Wood

Since the formation of Bryden Wood in 1995, we have been striving to change the construction industry. Our aim is to transform it into a product-based, integrated, design-lead industry. We believe that this can be achieved without any compromise in aesthetic merit, architectural integrity or functional performance.

To achieve this goal, we have a truly multi-disciplinary workforce, consisting of architects, product designers and engineers specialising in advanced low energy structural and environmental design, software writers, building information modellers and factory-based constructors. Increasingly, the distinction between these disciplines is being blurred, as we continually refine the process of fully integrating and co-ordinating design through to fabrication.

On projects where we perform a partial service, our unique offering makes us better informed in all areas. We are happy to work collaboratively with other design professionals, and well equipped to communicate with manufacturers and suppliers. Our commitment to transform the construction industry has culminated in running our own construction facility, providing us with the capacity to build and test low embodied energy structures in timber, high c ement replacement concrete and low weight steel. This facility produces Bryden Wood’s EcoCanopy building system, as well as other buildings, prototypes and products for the construction industry. By investing in our own developments (including research and development of systems) we are able to demonstrate not only our commitment to put into practice our ideals,
but also to experience for ourselves the true financial and practical implications of what we are trying to achieve.

The factor common to all aspects of our work is that we aim to drive efficiency and value through bringing a construction logic into the design process. Our ultimate aim is to instigate a new integrity in architectural design and construction.

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Jaimie Johnston

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Buchan Concrete Solutions

Buchan Concrete Solutions enjoys a history and track record spanning more than 60 years and is one of the largest manufacturers of precast concrete crosswall and associated products in the UK, operating from two plants in Cheshire and Staffordshire.

Buchan offers “solutions” to both the civil and building construction markets. Recent projects have included prisons, hotels, schools, sports halls, classroom extensions, student accommodation, apartments and office buildings.

With significant engineering capability the company is able to participate in value engineering exercises with clients and their design teams from concept to completion, to maximise the value for money contribution of a precast concrete solution to the overall project cost.

Buchan can list all the major UK contracting entities as clients. It also has extensive experience of working with private investors and their agents who are looking for the most appropriate solution to achieving a return on their investment without compromising quality, safety and associated construction risks.

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Steve Parker

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Caledonian Modular

Caledonian Modular brings together the combined expertise of Caledonian Building Systems and ModularUK, two of the leading modular building companies in the United Kingdom. Caledonian Modular specialises in the design, manufacture and construction of permanent, multi-storey buildings and operates as either principal contractor or modular sub-contractor, and is the largest off-site constructor of permanent buildings in Europe with a turnover in excess of 70 million in 2011.

Established in 1996, Caledonian’s early focus was in the construction of highly secure prison cells for HM Prison Service, where the design and product robustness has been proven in the construction of over 7,000 cells. With a highly flexible and customisable module design, capable of catering for the widest variety of building shapes, the company’s expertise has progressively been applied across the full spectrum of building applications. Significant projects have been undertaken in Ministry of Defence (MoD), hotel, residential, student, retail (food), medical and education sectors where the basic robust steel frame design has been adapted to provide an equivalent structure to that of a traditional in situ construction process but with the inherent advantages of a fully 3D off-site methodology.

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Derrick Tyler

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Circle

Circle is a partnership of healthcare professionals, business people and clinicians who believe that there is a better way to deliver healthcare. We specialise in the designing, building and operation of both private and NHS hospitals and currently have a partnership of 1,800 consultants, the largest in Europe. We have land interests in 18 locations and are actively progressing schemes in Reading, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Bournemouth. Circle has also been selected to run the first “franchise” of an NHS General Hospital in Hinchingbrooke, Cambridgeshire and we expect that further underperforming Trusts will be opened up to competition soon. In Nottingham we operate the largest patient volume treatment centre in Europe and our aim is to build at least 25 new hospitals over the next five years.

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Mark Cammies

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Crown House

Based in the West Midlands, CHt Off-site provides the capabilities to meet increased demands and fast track programmes. Modularisation techniques divide complex elements into manageable modules, leading to a dependable financial control, as well as ensuring a safer, more productive site with less congestion between trades.

CHt Off-site pioneered the use of off-site manufacturing over 15 years ago, and since then have invested heavily in new and innovative manufacturing techniques. Now as part of the Laing O’Rourke group, CHt Off-site are introducing new efficiencies in production, improving health and safety in the workplace, and reducing the group’s overall environmental impact.

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Steve Hough

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ela8

ela8 is a specialist R&D tax relief consultancy with clients ranging from large FTSE 100 nternational groups to small startup companies. ela8 most often puts together the whole R&D tax claim, covering both the technical justification and costing side, but can also supply just advice. Usually a claim is done on a contingent basis, where our fees are agreed to be a percentage of what is finally agreed with HMRC – effectively a no-win no-fee situation.

Before starting ela8 in early 2007, Gareth Edwards was a director of the awardwinning Deloitte R&D tax services group. Although an expert in the R&D tax legislation, his background is in technology with over 25 years of industrial R&D experience. It is this expertise that enables ela8 to provide the insights into eligibility that many accounting firms find difficult to achieve. ela8 have already made successful claims for a number of clients in the off-site construction industry.

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Gareth Edwards

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Eurobond-SkanDek Limited

SkanDek is a proven construction system that follows the trend industry for the prefabrication of high performance building elements. It is equally applicable to new build and refurbishment. SkanDek can be integrated into a building's structure whatever the construction material – steel, concrete, timber, masonry or composite structure.

The SkanDek structural element can be installed with single ply membrane and ceiling finishes both in place. Installation rates of over 2000m² per day of finished roof have been achieved.
It is based on a patented lightweight box girder beam that offers an impressive spanning capability of up to 22m. This superior strength and stiffness can be put to good use spanning shorter distances at higher loads. Large cantilevers can be provided and roof construction can be flat or pitched.

About 500,000m² of SkanDek elements have been installed in Europe in a wide range of building types. The system is fully tested and is the first product of its type to have gained CE Mark status. Design programs and an extensive detail library are available – all with the backing of independent assessment by the Steel Construction Institute and the award of their SCI Assessed standard. 

Eurobond-SkanDek offers a full technical and design service to help clients, designers and contractors maximise the features and benefits of a SkanDek solution.

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David Wallach

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Fusion

Fusion Building Systems was established in 2000, in response to a growing demand for off-site building solutions in the UK and Ireland. Fusion has significant experience in having supplied and installed building solutions to over 5,000 buildings, ranging from care homes and housing developments of up to 700 homes, to luxury six storey apartment developments, to various hotels and even a five star hotel complex, not forgetting numerous individual dwellings.

Operating from an 80,000 sq ft “built for purpose” centrally located Northampton headquarters, Fusion continues to lead the way in off-site methods of construction with the engineering, manufacture and installation of pre-insulated, panelised light gauge steel frame super-structures.

Fusion utilises its excellent development legacy to provide a true “super-structure” solution. Our in-house structural engineers undertake all aspects of design work including incorporating hot rolled steel as needed and producing structural calculations to assist the main contractor in achieving “in ground” savings.

Fusion reached new heights in 2011 with certification for full structures up to 10 storeys, which has opened even greater areas of opportunity.

Fusion’s “infill” panelised solution for HRS or concrete frame continues to gain momentum.

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Mike Fairey

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GlaxoSmithKline

Headquartered in the UK and with operations based in the US, GSK are one of the pharmaceutical industry leaders and employ around 99,000 people in over 100 countries.

GSK have a challenging and inspiring mission: to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. This mission gives GSK the purpose to develop innovative medicines and products that help millions of people around the world.

GSK are one of the few pharmaceutical companies researching both medicines and vaccines for the World Health Organization’s three priority diseases – HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. GSK produce medicines that treat six major disease areas – asthma, virus control, infections, mental health, diabetes and digestive conditions. In addition, they are a leader in the important area of vaccines and are developing
new treatments for cancer.

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John Dyson

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Howick Ltd

Howick design and manufacture a range of light gauge steel framing production machinery and systems.

Howick also offer a range of truss systems and the SPEEDFLOOR light weight composite concrete flooring system.

Howick Systems work from an open language control system that allows the integration of systems with major building design software packages.

Where required Howick’s expert team can be called on to develop new details and
specialist tooling.

Howick have supplied systems to 53 countries worldwide.

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Deon Anderson

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IFPI

IFPI was established in 1969 by building economist Bernard Williams concurrently with the founding of his professional practice Bernard Williams Associates (BWA). Originally named Building Economics Bureau (BEB) IFPI has since been actively involved in research, publishing, conferences and (more recently) software development aimed at professionals at the cutting edge of property, construction and facilities management in the UK and internationally. The company’s mission is to provide the means whereby many of the more complex issues currently facing the industry can be more readily assimilated and addressed by busy professionals.

Standard reference works such as “Facilities Economics” and “Whole-life Economics of Building Services” are available electronically, and new web-enabled programs include the EstatesMaster Facilities Benchmarking model and the CombiCycle Whole-life Cost and Sustainability Prediction program. Plans are now well-advanced to expand the capabilities of CombiCycle to accurately reflect the whole-life cost and sustainability of buildings constructed using off-site techniques.

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Bernard Williams

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Interserve

Interserve Construction Ltd provides whole life solutions for building and infrastructure projects from business case, through design, procurement, construction, to aftercare. The company is a business with more than a 100 year history working from our Birmingham headquarters and a network of 22 regional offices in the UK. In addition, we have overseas operations mainly concentrated in the Middle East.

ICL are part of the Interserve Plc support services group with worldwide interests related to the ownership, design, construction, maintenance and servicing of property assets.

ICL operate in many market sectors. We have a wide client base, including Government departments, local authorities, utility companies, and industrial and commercial organisations.

Client needs and customer satisfaction are our priorities. By understanding clients’ business objectives and strategies, our services are tailored to deliver whole life solutions, operational functionality and added value, which are achieved by innovation, creativity and continuous measured improvement which ensues from lessons learnt.

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David Large

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Invest Northern Ireland

As the regional business development agency, Invest NI’s role is to grow the local economy. We do this by supporting new and existing businesses to compete internationally, and by attracting new investment to Northern Ireland.

We are part of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and provide strong Government support for business by effectively delivering the Government’s economic development strategies.

Invest NI offers the Northern Ireland business community a single organisation providing high-quality services, programmes, support and expert advice. We principally support those businesses that can make the greatest contribution to growing our economy. These are businesses that have ability to grow and drive productivity in the economy, and are keen to export their goods and services outside Northern Ireland.

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Margaret Cunningham

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ISG

ISG is an international provider of construction, fit out and management services, with 27 offices worldwide, over 2,000 staff and a turnover approaching £1 billion. As a leading international brand, the company works with owners, developers and occupiers in the public and private sectors across a broad range of construction sectors. ISG was established in 1989 and has been quoted on AIM since 1998.

Within the UK, ISG focuses on construction, fit out and food retail solutions, with a portfolio that includes numerous FTSE 100 companies, leading supermarkets, Government departments and social housing organisations. Internationally, ISG has a strong presence in mainland Europe, Asia and the Middle East, and delivers highquality project management and fit out services for its multi-national client base.

A sustainable and innovative business, ISG is an early adopter of leading-edge technologies and processes that bring enhanced efficiencies to projects and directly benefit clients. The company is a driving force behind the lean construction concept, and works with its supply chain to drive out waste, add value and deliver best practice solutions.

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Neil Walker

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John Lewis

The John Lewis Partnership is one of the UK’s top ten retail businesses with 29 John Lewis department stores, 5 John Lewis at home stores, johnlewis.com, over 260 Waitrose supermarkets and convenience stores, waitrose.com and business to business contracts in the UK and abroad.  It is also the country’s largest employee co-owned business, with more than 76,500 employees.

The Partnership aims to ensure that everyone who works for it enjoys the experience of ownership, and believes that the commitment of Partners to the business is a unique source of competitive advantage which has underpinned over 80 years of growth and a reputation amongst customers and suppliers unparalleled in the UK retail industry.
We are committed and focused on continually improving the short and long term environmental impact of our buildings and interiors development work. We have always been conscientious about responsible sourcing, efficient design and doing what is right for our communities. Our challenge now is to go even further and we have set ourselves clear targets within our Responsible Development programme.
Responsible development of our estate is a vital part of our wider commitment to social responsibility; it is an essential aspect of the way we do business. It means providing buildings that are healthy, comfortable, safe and productive environments for their users. It also means sourcing responsibly, reducing waste and using recycled materials where possible, designing buildings to be energy efficient, using energy efficient equipment, re-using materials and reducing water usage. Our Responsible development framework and targets can be found at: 

http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/csr/our-environment/responsible-development.html

Our ambition over the next 10 years is to double the size of our businesses and to deliver an absolute carbon reduction of our operational carbon footprint of 15% by 2020/21 based on our 2010/11 emissions. These are remarkably challenging targets and in order to succeed we need to find smarter ways of working while we continue to grow profitably and we see offsite manufacture as a key factor in delivering our sustainability targets.

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Brian Arscott

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Kier Partnership homes

Kier is a leading construction, services and property group specialising in building and civil engineering, support services, private and affordable house building, property development and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). The Group employs over 11,000 people worldwide and has an annual revenue of £2.1 billion.

We have three divisions within the Group: construction, services and property. Through the three divisions identified above we are able to offer a “total solution” to our clients. From site, identification, assembly, civil engineering and land buying to new build, refurbishment, support services and facilities management, we operate across all sectors to deliver sustainable mixed-use solutions in a socially responsible manner. We are also able to offer innovative funding and development solutions. Kier has the capability, breadth of expertise and an extensive track record in delivering high quality, multi-use and mixed tenure schemes.

One of our key skills is the ability to partner with clients, adopting a problem-solving approach and helping them to overcome any complications that arise.

Kiers’ strong balance sheet and excellent track record of working in partnership with many stakeholders including RPs and other residential specialists, provides our clients with a position of strength.

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Dennis Seal

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Laidlaw Interiors

Laidlaw Interiors is an integrated group of companies committed to providing the highest levels of professional service to the architectural and construction industry. With a turnover of £130m with 1,100 employees, the group is made up of key market leading brands such as Laidlaw Solutions, Saturn, Komfort Workspace, Leaderflush Shapland, Fitzpatrick, Longden, Cubicle Systems and Tufwell Glass.

Laidlaw Solutions within the group is the leading specifier, distributor and technical service provider of architectural ironmongery, doorset solutions, handrailing and balustrading, and access control to the UK construction industry. For over 130 years Laidlaw has been supplying door hardware and fittings to some of the most prestigious buildings in the UK and overseas. We have built up an enviable reputation for supplying to projects of any scale, delivered on time and to the highest technical specifications.

The Laidlaw Interiors Group philosophy is to work closely with architects and specifiers to provide a total solution to suit each particular application. Each element is carefully selected to meet the performance, aesthetic and budgetary requirements of every project. We supply to an international network of contractors and deliver accurate solutions in all areas of the construction industry. With national coverage provided by regional sales centres our experienced staff includes over 100 fully qualified Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) trained staff and doorset specialists.

This wealth of experience is readily available to all our customers, providing a comprehensive package of specification and advice on all aspects of our product range. The product range is extensive and in addition to the Laidlaw Solutions aspect includes partitioning systems, cubicle systems, specialist doors and all types of glass. More recently this expertise has been extended to include the Middle East with our Dubai office and the Far East with our Hong Kong office.

Laidlaw Interiors Group are already integrated into the supply chains of a number of off-site manufacturers and we continue to innovate to add value to their processes through the supply of integrated doorsets (combining doors with factory fitted ironmongery), developing rapid installation solutions (such as our Integra steel frame doorset), and design and supply of our modular handrail and balustrade offering.

A programme of continual development of our product and service offering, together with improvements to our business processes, has enabled us to add value to our customers. A successful, fruitful and long standing relationship relies on trust in all partners. Laidlaw Interiors is the name to trust.

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Shafiq A. Sharif

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Laing O’Rourke

Laing O’Rourke Plc is the largest privately owned construction firm in the UK. We have offices in the UK, Germany, India, Australia and United Arab Emirates, with over 27,300 employees worldwide.

Led by Chairman and Chief Executive Ray O’Rourke, the business has grown rapily since the merger of Laing and R.O’Rourke & Son Ltd in 2001.

Laing O’Rourke has a truly integrated capability, with a directly-employed internal supply chain allowing us to take a holistic view of construction.

We specialise in delivering ambitious yet achievable construction projects that delight both clients and the communities who use them every day, and the company is responsible for some of the most innovative construction solutions anywhere in the world.

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Alan Clucas

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Lean Thinking Ltd

We are a unique project management consultancy with the most effective and advanced project management system that utilises the best of the following management tools and techniques:
lean thinking and continuous flow
- theory of constraints
- systems thinking
- self-management and self-collaboration
- Six Sigma.

Combined with more than 20 years of hands-on project management experience in construction and ICT to deliver the most radical improvement in project delivery in terms of time, cost and quality.

Our experience shows that combining the best of these tools and techniques delivers a much greater level of improvement than when applied individually.

We believe that our project management system is the most scientific, precise, dynamic and transparent in the UK construction industry, and can deliver by far the most radical improvement in project performance on-site and off-site.

This project management system applies to all size of projects at any stage in all industries and sectors.

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Ali Mafi

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LightSpeed (Unite)

LightSpeed Construction is a leading designer, manufacturer and constructor of volumetric modular buildings.

Formerly known as Unite Modular Solutions, the company has been utilising off-site manufacturing technology to factory produce fully fitted and furnished lightweight steel framed modules, which are joined together on site to create fully functional, bespoke buildings, since 2002.

The company’s pioneering modules combine innovative design and engineering techniques to provide self-supporting buildings, which incorporate factory fitted room content reflective of client requirements including all living and working accommodation, service areas and common areas, without the requirement for additional support structures.

Currently, LightSpeed employs around 200 dedicated designers, technicians, project managers, quantity surveyors and specialist manufacturing staff to work on the units’ production in one of Europe’s most sophisticated manufacturing facilities.

So far, the company has manufactured and installed over 19,000 volumetric modules into a diverse range of projects including residential, student accommodation and hotels.

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Graham Cleland

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Lloyd's Register EMEA

The Lloyd’s Register Group is an organisation that delivers business performance and safety enhancements through asset management and business systems assessment.

To facilitate this, we set, uphold and apply high technical standards of design, manufacture, construction, maintenance, operation and performance across many sectors to the benefit of businesses and communities alike. We are a global safety and risk management organisation serving the following sectors: off-site construction, utilities, ports and logistics, power, nuclear, marine, and oil and gas.

In recognition of a marked reluctance by lenders to lend against innovative construction and Buildoffsite, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Lloyd’s Register (LR) and BLP established a working group with the lenders; Santander, Lloyd’s Banking Group, RBS and Nationwide. The purpose of the group was to understand the lenders’ concerns and formulate a process that would provide assurance to the lending community that risks associated with lending against innovatively constructed properties would be limited. That process has been defined and established, and is the Buildoffsite Property Assurance Scheme.

Lloyd’s Register will be supported in the assessment process by BLP.

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Terry Mundy

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Marks and Spencer

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Paul Glinn

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McAvoy

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Metropolitan Police

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Ministry of Justice

The Ministry of Justice has the largest mandated estate across government with some 2000 buildings with a value circa £8 billion.

The Project Delivery Unit within the MOJ Estate Directorate is responsible for delivering new build, refurbishment and maintenance projects across the United Kingdom for HM Courts and Tribunals Service and the National Offender Management Service, other Government bodies such as the UK Border Agency also make use of our services. The Project Delivery Unit includes a wide range of professionals skilled in project management, construction cost bench marking, lean process improvement, private finance initiatives (PFI) and technical disciplines such as custodial security and Building Information Modeling.

This diverse range of skills allows us to provide the Ministry of Justice and other UK Government departments with an effective means of delivering projects successfully with our partners in the supply chain. The Project Delivery Unit is at the forefront of the transformation of the Ministry of Justice’s estate to one of an appropriate capacity and quality, delivered efficiently, which is less costly to run and more sustainable.

We are also working closely with colleagues in the Cabinet Office and other Departments on various initiatives to improve the delivery of construction projects in line with the UK Government’s construction strategy and carbon reduction commitment.

Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald is a £1 billion global management, engineering and development consultancy with 14,000 staff working in 140 countries. We work in all sectors from buildings, transport, energy, water and the environment to health and education, industry and communications.

Building information modelling – BIM – is set to become an integral part of the construction industry. Mott MacDonald is an early adopter of BIM, and as a result our customers are reaping the benefits of better resolved solutions, faster project delivery, improved risk management, enhanced sustainability and improved whole-life performance.

Working within Anglian Water’s @one Alliance, we have pioneered “product-based delivery”, playing a key role in developing the approach that is now successfully being used. The @one Alliance has developed 60 standard products that can be accessed via an online catalogue. This has helped to streamline design, procurement and project delivery, contributing to cost savings of up to 45 per cent, time savings of up to 90 per cent, waste reduction and improvements in health and safety.

We are also using BIM on a number of other key projects including Victoria Station Upgrade. Here it is contributing to the management of the design and construction risks involved in enlarging and modernising one of London Underground’s busiest stations; in a congested urban environment, alongside continuing passenger services.

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Derek Fryer

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Network Rail

Network Rail owns and operates Britain’s rail infrastructure.

We run, maintain and develop Britain’s tracks, signalling system, rail bridges, tunnels, level crossings, viaducts and 18 key stations. Network Rail is a “not for dividend” company and all our profits go straight back into improving the railway. Our mission is to provide a safe, reliable and efficient railway fit for the 21st century.

When Network Rail took over the railway network in October 2002, we inherited a tired, worn-out infrastructure that had been starved of investment for many years. Network Rail represents a new beginning, a new vision and a new way of delivering Britain’s railway. We are investing in our workforce and introducing new technologies. There are around 35,000 of us at Network Rail and we are working hard to improve every aspect of the railway. We have made enormous progress, and under our stewardship, the railway is already safer, more reliable and more efficient.

We are ambitious for the future of the railway and wish to grow the railway, meeting the demands and aspirations of rail users. Our task now is to build on the progress we have made so that we can transform Britain’s railway into a world-class infrastructure.

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David Higgins

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NG Bailey

One of the co-founders of Buildoffsite, NG Bailey has invested over £5million in the UK’s largest off-site building services manufacturing capability. Bailey Off-site is a pioneer of manufactured building services solutions, providing pre-tested and already insulated or wired M&E systems that can be rapidly connected and commissioned.

The company’s project management expertise has recently been utilised to advise the consortium behind a cutting edge PFI project worth in total approximately £430m, for St Hen’s and Whiston Hospitals.

The NG Bailey Group provides a comprehensive range of M&E design, installation, manufacture, refresh, maintenance services and Information Communications & Technology (ICT) solutions.

• Bailey Building Services: the largest subsidiary of the company, providing M&E services
• Bailey Maintenance: planned and preventative building services maintenance, facilities management and energy management systems
• Bailey Teswaine: independent ICT solutions
• Bailey Johnson: design, supply and installation of suspended ceilings, architectural mouldings, partition walls, fibrous plasterwork and fire protection solutions

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Cal Bailey
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One Creative Environments Ltd

One Creative Environments Ltd (ONE) is an integrated, multi-disciplinary construction design business, comprising architecture, civil & structural engineering, building services, landscape & master-planning and interior design. Their offer includes other complimentary services such as town planning, project management, cost planning and CDMC.

A leading healthcare designer with over 30 years experience, ONE has also worked on office, industrial, higher education, extra care and social housing projects.

ONE's multi-skilled team operates an Integrated Design Process (IDP) from concept into occupation, in partnership with clients, investors, developers, contractors, manufacturers, advisors and building users, to create quality, sustainable buildings, shorten delivery times and eliminate waste.

The ONE structures team has specialist capability in the design of lightweight modular structures and project management of the design process into construction on site. This experience has developed over ten years of working with fabricators and end user clients in the hotel, leisure, residential  and student accommodation sectors to deliver practical solutions to successful completion.

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Melanie Hinds

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Ormandy Group

Ormandy Group is just 10 years old, but already has a turnover of £25m. It has an extremely broad range of products for HVAC and specialist applications and is one of the country’s leading providers of complete off-site, prefabricated M&E services.

The Group includes well-known commercial and industrial heating brand names such as Rycroft and Hartley & Sugden. It has expanded rapidly through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions, and the broad range of products now within the group allows it to create bespoke M&E packages for almost any application. The original Halifax-based Ormandy “heat exchange and packaged solutions” is the hub of the off-site prefabrication business and all of the group’s commercial water heating equipment, storage vessels and thermal stores are supplied under the Rycroft brand name.

Ormandy Electric Heaters, formerly Heatrae Industrial, manufactures an extensive range of electric heating equipment and the group also produces a comprehensive range of industrial and commercial boilers, including high efficiency/low NOx output boilers for single or multiple installations from 40 to 6000 kW under the Hartley & Sugden name.

Newade Stainless provides stainless steel equipment for the specialised chemical, confectionery, food and pharmaceuticals industries along with stainless steel vessels, calorifiers and fabricated packages for the commercial HVAC market.

DREH, founded in 1952, supplies marine high duty and copper/cupro nickel fittings as well as fabricated solutions such as soil and waste, and fresh water float assemblies. The most recent company to become part of the group is Aquatherm Sales UK, which designs and anufactures plastic piping solutions.

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Paul Cooper

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Portakabin

Portakabin has provided inspiring accommodation solutions of outstanding quality and exceptional service for nearly 50 years. Its modular buildings can be tailored to a broad range of public and private sector needs, and with the complete reassurance of its Customer Charter – unique in the industry, it will deliver buildings to its Sales and Hire customers consistently on time and on budget.

With its unrivalled manufacturing facilities and the widest network of Hire Centres in the UK, Portakabin can deliver both bespoke buildings and standardised solutions in the most challenging timescales, safely, and with less impact on the environment.

All Portakabin products are supplied with an unrivalled product and structural warranty package for further peace of mind, and benefit from extensive independent accreditations, including Buying Solutions, Zurich, BBA and LABC approvals.

Whether the requirement is for a permanent or temporary building, a decant facility or a sales or hire solution, Portakabin has a product for every application and situation – from single module buildings to four-storey schemes, and with a wide range of aesthetic and fitting out options.

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Robert Snook

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Kevin Jones

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Sainsbury's

Trading since 1869, Sainsbury’s is currently the UK’s third largest retailer, with 564 supermarkets and 420 convenience stores.

Sainsbury’s have a 16 per cent market share and serve over 22 million customers a week, employing over 150,000 colleagues.

Over the last five years we have continued to reduce the impact of our operations by using new innovations in the way we build and sustain our stores.

Respect for our environment is one of the core values of our business. It’s about “doing more with less” and we are very proud of the progress we have made in reducing our environmental impact.

We recently launched our 20 by 20 Sustainability Plan, which sets out 20 sustainability targets to be achieved by 2020. The £1 billion plan will ensure that Sainsbury’s remains at the forefront of sustainability between now and 2020.

We look forward to sustainable and ollaborative working with Buildoffsite to transform the way we construct and maintain our customers’ shopping experience, for good.

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Richard Rust

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SEGRO plc

SEGRO plc is a commercial property investment and development company that has become Europe’s leading provider of flexible business space by focusing on delivering what our customers want, where they want it and by working in partnership with them as their requirements evolve.

Operating in eight countries, our property portfolio includes offices, light industrial logistics, warehouses and data centre properties.

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Brendan Fogarty

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SES Ltd

SES PRISM is an industry leading off-site manufacturing company specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of building services modules. We have established a solid reputation for technical excellence, project delivery and a guaranteed commitment to quality.

With a strong engineering heritage, we have led the way in prefabrication, modularisation and off-site construction. Our experience extends to modularised refurbished buildings and we welcome all opportunities to apply our flexible approach to bespoke modular design, no matter how challenging.

Delivering projects more cost effectively, within shorter time frames and with reduced impact to our environment, SES PRISM offers an effective solution for today’s construction needs.

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Azim Jasat

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Siemens

As a leading supplier for power distribution, the low and medium voltage (LMV) division of Siemens ensures the efficient and sustainable use of electrical energy.

Our extensive portfolio of products provides the foundation for green cities as well as energy-efficient infrastructures, buildings and industrial applications. Our customers include, amongst others, leading utility companies, industrial, built environment and infrastructure customers; our reputation is built on forging excellent relationships with our customers and meeting the highest quality, security and safety standards. With a comprehensive technology competence and international presence we develop, produce and supply innovative products and systems as well as custom-made solutions for intelligent power supply systems and distribution networks.

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Eric Anderson

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SIG

SIG plc is a leading European distributor of Insulation, Exteriors, Interiors Specialist Construction Products and Systems. We are the UK’s leading specialist distributor in the construction industry with an extensive UK branch network offering the widest of product ranges and have taken the lead in the drive towards providing sustainable solutions. We have dedicated technical teams that bring together unique expertise in many of the specialist areas of today’s construction methods. In addition our distribution and manufacturing units can supply the complete range of fire, acoustic, thermal insulation and cladding products with the capability of special designs to suit the client’s design and performance requirements. Our objective is to ensure that we supply the most cost effective solution to meet the required performance criteria, so involving SIG plc at an early stage of the project will help to ensure the best solution.

As a strong partner we can provide the support, technical expertise and products to meet the performance expectations both for the off-site and on-site build process.

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Robert Colver

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Skanska

Skanska is involved in some of the country’s most prestigious private and public sector projects. Whilst known mainly for our large high-profile schemes, we also undertake many smaller projects including public realm improvements, hard and soft landscaping as well as hundreds of utilities projects each year covering gas, electricity and water. Through our development operations we have established a UK residential business and in addition, by combining the skills of our construction and investment operations, have become a leader in UK PFI/PPP schemes.

Our business model is to integrate our core disciplines and work with our clients and our supply chain to deliver project solutions across our chosen market areas. We focus on creating sustainable solutions, and aim to be leaders in green construction, health and safety, and business ethics. We work strictly in accordance with our Code of Conduct and to our core values: zero loss-making projects, zero accidents, zero environmental incidents, zero ethical breaches and zero defects.

Our commitment to contribute to a more sustainable world is resolute. In June 2011, we were named the greenest company in the UK across all industries by The Sunday Times.

In the UK, we employ approximately 4,600 staff and undertake around £1.3 billion worth of work each year. We carry out all aspects of the construction, development and infrastructure process – from financing projects, through design and construction, right through to facilities management, operation and maintenance.

We are backed by the financial strength of Skanska which has 52,000 employees and sales of around £11 billion.

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Sam Stacey

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Structex

Structex is a new and unique precast concrete, modular construction system for housing. It is the perfect solution for a home extension, new-build project, or for the housing developer who wants to comply with current and future codes for sustainable housing, achieving quick construction times and completing the project on budget. Structex is a system built Hybrid house, incorporating all the best features of modern system building: insulated precast concrete sandwich panels for thermal mass, fire resistance and speed of erection, together with a SIPs (Structurally Insulated Panels) roofing system. Together they offer the house builder/developer a flexible, innovative and speedy solution to house construction.

• structure meets Level 4, Code for Sustainable Homes
• can help achieve levels 5 & 6 when combined with renewable technology
• U-values of 0.21W/m²K
• air permeability values >5m³/(h.m²)
• fire resistant
• speed of erection on site
• good thermal mass properties
• flexibility in design and material finishes

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Paul Riches

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Tata Steel Products

Tata Steel, formerly known as Corus, is one of Europe’s largest steel producers. We serve many different and demanding markets worldwide, including aerospace, automotive, onstruction, energy and power, and packaging. Our primary steelmaking operations in the UK and the Netherlands are supported by a global sales and distribution network.

Innovation and continuous improvement are at the heart of our performance culture. We aim to create value by offering a sustainable and value-added steel product range supported by unrivalled customer service. By working in partnership with you, we find the best solutions to meet your needs and help your business to perform.

Our European operations are a subsidiary of Tata Steel Group, one of the world’s top ten steel producers. With a combined presence in nearly 50 countries, the Tata Steel Group including the Europe operations, Tata Steel Thailand and NatSteel Asia, has approximately 80,000 employees across five continents and a crude steel production capacity of over 28 million tonnes.

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Peter Baldwin

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Tekla (UK) Limited

Tekla’s ambition is to multiply customers’ potential to think and achieve big. Tekla Structures BIM (Building Information Modelling) software provides an accurate, detailed and data-rich 3D environment that can be created and shared by contractors, structural engineers, steel detailers and fabricators, as well as concrete detailers and manufacturers.

The highly detailed as-built structural models created, combined and distributed with Tekla Structures enable the highest level of constructability and production control. Centralising building information into the model allows for more collaborative and integrated project management and delivery. This translates into increased productivity and elimination of waste, thus making construction and buildings more sustainable, as well as supporting off-site construction methods and lean principles.

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Andrew Bellerby

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Terrapin Ltd

Terrapin’s success stems from anticipating market trends and the continually developing need for a new form of construction to meet the regulatory and performance requirements such as those leading up to 2016 & beyond whilst providing quality, cost effective buildings without compromising good architectural practice.

The dynamics of the Construction Industry have become increasingly focussed around these new pressures to deliver buildings that combine aesthetics with improved building economics in an affordable manner. The intelligent use of Terrapin’s manufactured building systems, either in isolation or in combination, provides customers with assurances that these expectations will be met whilst providing greater cost certainty, minimising waste, reducing time on site, an improved health and safety performance with less reliance upon traditionally site based skill sets and disruption to residents affected during the site time construction process.

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Ray Philbin

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Total Flow

Total Flow is a consultancy that specialises in whole system performance improvement. We educate, inspire, transform and disrupt. We’re acknowledged as thought leaders in our approach to product and process design, operational performance, supply chain management, customer satisfaction and lean enterprise Within Buildoffsite, Total Flow has three overlapping goals:

• to Build one or more client-led consortia with design and construction capability to deliver innovative propositions utterly compelling to planning authorities, clients and end users

• to Support existing supply chains to identify and remove systemic cost, aligning their capability to the expectations of the client. The net result being the elimination of typically 30 per cent wasted resource
• to Enable off-site manufacturers to industrialise their operational capability: Designing and developing products and manufacturing processes which achieve exceptional performance, reliability and cost. Reducing leadtimes by 75 per cent,
  with a 30 per cent increase in productivity and 20 per cent cost down.

We have a highly skilled and versatile team of improvement professionals, who’ve operated at director level in the corporate world and dealt personally with the competitive issues you face.

Our services include education, consulting, change facilitation and training for companies that are ready to pursue innovation through every part of their value chain. It’s a recipe for success that has made Total Flow one of the fastest growing and most inventive consulting organisations in the world.

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Chris Ellins

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UKTI

UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) works with UK-based businesses to ensure their success in international markets and encourages the best overseas companies to look to the UK as their global partner of choice. UKTI provides expert trade advice and practical support to UK-based companies wishing to grow their business overseas. With 2,400 staff and a presence in 96 countries, UKTI can assist companies on every step of the exporting journey. Through a range of unique services, including participation at selected trade fairs, outward missions and
providing bespoke market intelligence, UKTI can assist companies to crack foreig
markets, and get to grips quickly with overseas regulations and business practice

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Andrew Bacchus

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Yorkon

Yorkon has pioneered innovative off-site building solutions for more than three decades in some of the most challenging situations, and in sectors as diverse as retail, nuclear, offices, healthcare, transport, laboratories and education.

The Yorkon steel-framed modular system can help deliver award-winning buildings up to 50 per cent faster, on time and on budget, and with greatly reduced disruption. It is a more sustainable approach to construction, which offers enhanced thermal efficiency and reduces material waste by up to 90 per cent.

In the past two years, Yorkon has completed an unprecedented 99 per cent of its contracts both on programme and on budget. And the fact that more than 70 per cent of its business is from repeat customers is further evidence of its success.

The Yorkon system allows the creation of 12m clear internal spans with unrivalled aesthetic options for the external envelope. Its latest innovations include the awardwinning high performance floor – a pre-installed concrete floor developed for buildings with areas of high footfall, heavy loadings or to accommodate sensitive equipment.

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David Johnson

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British Precast

The British Precast Concrete Federation (BPCF) is the trade association of precast
concrete manufacturers in the UK.

We are passionate advocates of sustainable and safe practice in the design and use
of concrete products. We have 12 product groups represented by the Federation.
These range from small modular products such as roof tiles, blocks and paving to
large customised structural units.

Members’ interests are continually developed through our team of dedicated
professionals who have extensive connections with organisations in the UK and
worldwide. Four awards schemes are run annually for projects, sustainability, health
and safety, and innovation.

The Federation runs a safety improvement scheme Concrete Targets 2015 with the
objective of making the £2.5 billion sector accident-free. Membership is open to both
concrete producers and the whole supply chain.

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Martin Clarke

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BSRIA

BSRIA is unique among the built environment specialists in providing independent, objective and practical support across the design, construction and occupancy phases of both new build and refurbishment projects.

With specialists able to measure and compare construction performance in all phases of design through operation, BSRIA is well placed to provide factual and authoritative feedback from innovative projects. We can work either openly or in strict confidence with whole teams or individual clients.

BSRIA is happy to partner with any companies in the building services and construction industries. The 650+ BSRIA membership benefit from having a more direct involvement in our innovative solutions together with online access to Europe’s leading Building Services Library and Information Centre.

BSRIA is pleased to be associated with Buildoffsite, and look forward to providing clients and fellow members with tried and tested services including:

• consultancy

• on-site and laboratory testing

• modelling

• research

• troubleshooting

• instrument hire, sales and calibration

• market intelligence.

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Andrew Eastwell

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CIRIA

CIRIA is the construction industry research and information association. Operating
across market sectors and disciplines we deliver a programme of business
improvement services and research activities for our members, and those engaged
with the delivery and operation of the built environment.

CIRIA is an independent member based, not-for-profit association. Members include
commercial companies, universities, Government departments, and other public
sector agencies and organisations. Representatives are from all parts of the supply
chain of the modern built environment, covering building and civil engineering as well
as transport and utilities infrastructure.

CIRIA’s primary aims are to improve the quality, efficiency, cost-effectiveness and
safety in both the provision and operation of the modern built environment. In pursuit
of these aims, CIRIA seeks to be the leading provider of improvement products and
services to organisations involved in procuring, delivering, owning and maintaining
the fabric of the modern built environment.
Buildoffsite is managed by CIRIA.

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Bill Healy

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The Concrete Society

The activities of The Society’s advisory, technical development, professional/
business networking, CPD and information services provide the construction industry
with a major focal point for information, and a proactive forum for debate and action.
We play a vital role in encouraging the best use and development of concrete as a
uniquely versatile and competitive material.

The Society works through the co-operation of its members who come from all
sectors of the industry to exchange information and experience, and to enhance the
performance, productivity and quality of concrete as a construction medium.

Supported by the technical and administrative staff of The Society, members
collaborate to produce and disseminate state-of-the-art reports, recommendations
and practical guidance.

The reach of The Society goes beyond its membership with subscribers, to a wide
range of products and services in over 80 countries.

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Kathy Calverley

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Construction Products Association

The Construction Products Association was established in 2000 as an umbrella body to represent manufacturers and suppliers of construction products. Its membership consists of 85% by value, of all manufacturers and suppliers of construction products in the UK, including the largest companies in the industry, as well as the 43 trade associations. Collectively, the industry has an output of more than £40 billion, it produces 20% of goods manufactured in the UK and accounts for 4% of Britain’s GDP.

The Association focuses its attention on four key priority areas - Increasing investment in the built environment, encouraging government to create a supportive business environment that will help companies be more competitive and profitable, improving industry performance and delivering sustainable construction. The Association also provides members with detailed economic information as well as technical and regulatory information about issues that impact upon the industry.

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Michael Ankers

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HSE

The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for health and safety regulation in Great Britain. The HSE and local government are the enforcing authorities. Our mission is to protect people’s health and safety by ensuring risks in the workplace are properly controlled.

The HSE looks after health and safety in many sectors including nuclear installations, quarries and mines, factories, agriculture and farming, hospitals and schools, offshore gas and oil installations, the safety of the gas grid, and the movement of dangerous goods and substances, and many other aspects of the protection both of workers and the public
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Local authorities are responsible for enforcement in offices, shops and other parts of
the services sector.

The HSE is part of the Department of Work and Pensions and is ultimately
accountable to Chris Grayling (Department of Work and Pensions).

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Angelica Rutherford-Hacon

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Loughborough University

Loughborough’s School of Civil & Building Engineering is one of the leading research and teaching centres in the built environment with more than 70 academics and 150 researchers.

Built environment research at Loughborough covers five key themes: innovative construction technologies, management of human resources, advanced information and communication technologies, improvements in construction business processes, and sustainability and building performance.

Recent research activity of interest to Buildoffsite includes:
- Adaptable Futures: developing strategies for buildings to accommodate effectively the evolving demands of its context, thus maximising value through life
- Build Freeform: developing a unique 3D concrete printing process
- Off-site Infrastructure: effective off-site applications for the civil engineeringsector.

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Alistair Gibb

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Oxford Brookes University

The University includes a specialised Architectural Engineering research group geared to support the off-site and building envelope sectors. The group has high level building physics analysis (including thermal design), and a dedicated new structure and building physics laboratory often used for accreditation and compliance testing.

The group works closely with industry, research councils, UK and EU Governments, and construction sector organisations, including the Steel Construction Institute, the Timber Research & Development Association and Buildoffsite to provide holistic and tailored services to a varied client base. It works at the leading edge of research and cascades this benefit to clients, collaborating closely with clients’ in-house teams.

It can develop products, systems or approaches from initial design through to analysis, prototype testing, certification and delivery to market.

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Prof. Ray Ogden

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RIBA

The Royal Institute of British Architects is known globally through the work of its 27,000+ chartered architect members, who bear the gold standard for practice in the profession.

A champion for architectural design quality, and with a passion to promote a wider public appetite and interest in architecture through its website, exhibitions, talks and four million-strong collections, the RIBA champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and architects.

RIBA Enterprises, with its NBS, Bookshops and Insight brands, is the leading provider of information to the construction industry.

The RIBA shares with Buildoffsite a common agenda, which is to meet the significant economic, environmental and social challenges the design and construction industry now faces and still deliver better designed, better performing and more sustainable buildings – but with less money and time. We believe that these challenges are best met by integrating the role played by architects working collaboratively with suppliers and
contractors to deliver innovative solutions, through a streamlined project delivery team.

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RICS

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is the leading organisation of its kind in the world for professionals in property, construction, land and related environmental issues. As an independent and chartered organisation, the RICS regulates and maintains the professional standards of 86,000 chartered members (FRICS and MRICS) and 55,000 members in other categories globally (AssocRICS, trainees and students). It represents, regulates and promotes the work of these property professionals throughout 146 countries and is governed by a Royal Charter approved by Parliament, which requires it to act in the public interest.

It is the world’s leading professional body for qualifications and standards in land,
property and construction. As people, governments, banks and commercial organisations

continue to demand more assurance of certified standards and ethics, attaining RICS status is the recognised mark of property professionalism.

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David Dalby

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SCI

The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) is the leading, independent provider of technical expertise and disseminator of best practice to the steel construction sector. We work with clients, members and industry to help build businesses and provide competitive advantage through the commercial application of our knowledge. We are committed to offering and promoting sustainable and environmentally responsible solutions.

SCI develops and promotes the effective use of steel in construction. Our research, development and specialist consultancy activities extend to all aspects of steel construction including multi-storey and industrial buildings, bridges, nuclear facilities, renewable energy generation, infrastructure, and oil and gas facilities (both on and offshore). Our range of services includes provision of comprehensive guidance on structural design, fire engineering, sustainable construction, architectural design, building physics and information technology. We also offer an independent assessment service leading to the award of the “SCI Assessed” quality mark.

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Dr Bassam Burgan

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TRADA

The Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA) – is an internationally recognised centre of excellence on the specification and use of timber and wood products.

TRADA is a company limited by guarantee and not-for-profit membership-based organisation. TRADA’s origins go back over 70 years, and its name is synonymous with independence and authority. Its position in the industry is unique with a diverse membership, which encompass companies and individuals from around the world and across the entire wood supply chain, from producers, merchants and manufacturers, to architects, engineers and end users
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TRADA aims to provide members with the highest quality information on timber and wood products to enable them to maximise the benefits that timber can provide. We seek to achieve this aim through active and ongoing programmes of information and research. Information is provided through the website, an extensive collection of printed materials and our training courses.

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Andrew Abbott

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UK Timber Frame Association

The UK Timber Frame Association is the voice of the timber frame industry, including designers and manufacturers, and those that sell to housebuilders, developers and self-builders. We’re here to tell people about the benefits of timber frame construction and how to use it effectively, safely and seeking higher standards.

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Bob Davis

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University of Reading

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