Midlands Half Day CPD - Build Safe. Build Smart. Build Sustainable

Join industry leaders as they unpack two major challenges in construction: delivering real building safety competence and achieving sustainability without sacrificing safety. This energised event offers expert insight, practical guidance on the management of capability and competence and fresh thinking to help you drive safer, smarter, low-carbon construction across your organisation.

• 08:00 - 08:30 | Arrival and Breakfast
• 08:30 - 08:40 | Welcome from CIOB President Paul Gandy
• 08:40 - 10:10 | Building Safety Competence and Capability
• 10:10 - 10:40 | Refreshments and Networking
• 10:40 - 11:55 | Sustainability without Compromising Safety
• 11:55 - 12:00 | Closing Remarks

Session 1: Building Safety Competence and Capability - what's the difference?

Join us for an in-depth session exploring how current regulations define competence and capability, what the recognised frameworks require and who these obligations affect. We will examine how organisations and individuals can interpret their duties, assess and maintain their competence, and confidently demonstrate capability in practice. The session will also consider the wider benefits for both organisations and individuals, alongside reflections on current guidance and emerging best practice.

Chair: FCIOB, NECReg, Director of Cube Construction Consultants. CIOB Nottingham Hub Vice Chair.

Panel:

BSc PG Cert. MBA FBuildE FCABE Chartered Building Engineer, Consultant

Technical Leader Building Safety, Laing O'Rourke

Principal Director, Weedon Architects

Session 2: Sustainability without Compromising Safety

Safety is non-negotiable in building design. As the UK construction industry pushes to decarbonise and adopt more sustainable methods, including innovative bio-based materials like timber, there is growing pressure to balance carbon reduction with uncompromised safety.

This panel will explore how the industry can embrace new materials and techniques while maintaining the highest safety standards.

Chair: FISEP CEnv, Head of Environmental Sustainability, CIOB

Panel:

FCIOB, MISEP, CEnv, Founder & Managing Director at Sustainable Construction Solutions Ltd, Sustainability Director at Timber Development UK

FloR, Head of Sustainability at Sika Roofing UK

, PhD. Architect, Associate Professor in Sustainable Built Environment at BCU

, Milner Associates, (an RSK Environment Company), Visiting Professor at Edinburgh Napier University, Technical Consultant at Structural Timber Association

Location:

4-Star Business Hotel: Crowne Plaza Birmingham NEC

Refreshments:

Breakfast rolls will be provided on arrival.

Ticket Price:

This event is free for CIOB members and £50 for non-members.

This learning activity can contribute to your annual CPD return and should be logged accordingly.

This event is for over 18's only.

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Georgina Floyd

Member Services and Events Coordinator - Midlands

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This event has been kindly sponsored by Careys.

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