Building Services Learning and Development Conference 2022

Buildings offer an increasingly complex challenge to professionals involved in their design, construction, commissioning, and operation.

New technology, new legislation, and new social responsibilities means that the practices of those who work with buildings need to evolve in response to the environmental, social, and economic concerns which built environment organisations are being held to account for.

New challenges require new knowledge and new ways of thinking.

So where does this leave Learning & Development professionals in sectors like building services engineering, construction, and facilities management?

For those responsible for ensuring their organisation has the skills to prosper in an increasingly turbulent future, what is to be done?

In this online event, BSRIA invites a selection of leading industry experts to provide insight into the learning & development impact of key trends and issues affecting knowledge requirements within the built environment.

Agenda

1. Welcome and introductions. Tom Garrigan, Technical Director, BSRIA

2. Leadership skills to affect change and accelerate productivity. Tim Whitehill, Director, Project Five Consulting 

It is widely recognised that the building services and construction industry has a problem with productivity and has been slow to adapt to the digital age. Here we demonstrate how embedding leadership and management skills can successfully drive wide-ranging improvements across the industry.

3. Skills to deliver buildings that perform. Ian Taggart, Post Completion Project Manager and Soft Landings Lead, Multiplex

There is broad consensus that buildings in operation do not always perform as well as they could. We will hear how Multiplex are using people development based upon individual skills competency assessments to address this. We will understand how this approach is leading to improved outcomes in building performance, particularly as Multiplex adopts a Soft Landings approach to delivering buildings.

4. Adapting CPD strategies to achieve Net Zero. Clara Bagenall-George, Associate, Elementa Consulting

Delivering net-zero buildings is one of the greatest challenge our sector faces, but where do we start and how do we prepare to achieve this industry objective? Here we break down what exactly net-zero means when applied to buildings, how it can be achieved, and what the stepping stones are to build competency within an organisation to capitalise on the opportunities afforded by net-zero buildings.

5. The value of inter-disciplinary learning in an evermore specialised world. Richard Nash, Membership Services Manager, BSRIA

Buildings are highly complex environments. Critical to their overall success is cohesion between the different professional disciplines that come into effect throughout the building lifecycle. There is growing need for integration and for specialists to become familiar with areas of expertise and technology beyond their own specialism. Here we explore this issue in greater depth along with the tools and techniques BSRIA offers to support synergy and cohesion through its knowledge services.

6. Managing and organising building services CPD across a large organisation. Mary-Ann Clarke, Regional Director, AECOM

Organising CPD can be a significant challenge – from identifying the strategic objectives through to operational delivery. Find out here how a large organisation is tackling the issue and what they have learnt along the way. We will also explore what the successes and challenges have been and how you can learn from their experience.

7. The skills of the future. Aaron Gillich, Director, BSRIA/LSBU Net Zero Building Centre

Aaron offers A perspective from the UK’s leading university in building services, including what the future looks like for graduate programmes in our industry, and how the university and the LSBU/BSRIA Net Zero Building Centre is preparing current and future engineers to decarbonise the built environment.