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Circular Economy Thinking #CEThinking

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Venue: etc.venues Victoria, One Drummond Gate, Victoria, London SW1V 2QQ

Who should attend:
Construction professionals who are trying to implement circular economy thinking – clients, architects, designers, specifiers, contractors, construction product manufacturers.

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Our Hosts

The workshop is convened under the aegis of the government/industry Green Construction Board (GCB). The Board is the Sustainability work stream of the Construction Leadership Council and the role of the GCB is to provide leadership and action to enable the whole value chain (clients, contractors, product manufacturers and suppliers) to become more environmentally sustainable, more productive and better placed to exploit the growing global market.
The project partners for this workshop are the GCB, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), the Construction Products Association (CPA), the KTN, BRE and Just Practising.

http://www.greenconstructionboard.org/

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-business-innovation-skills

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The Construction Products Association is the UK umbrella trade association representing manufacturers and distributors of construction products and materials. With 24 big company members and 36 trade association members it represents awide range of material sectors and product manufacturers and distributors.
On sustainabilityissues it provides leadership to its members helping to catalyse their thinkingand action on a wide range of topics from energy efficiency, lowering carbon,water management, measuring and reporting sustainability performance andembodied impacts, resource efficiency and the circular economy.
CPA is also a member of Construction Products Europe, the umbrella trade association for European construction product associations.

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https://www.bre.co.uk/

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Speakers:

Robert Pearce, Green Construction Board Circular Economy Group
Mike Putnam, Chair, GreenConstruction Board & CEO, Skanska
Mike Pitts, Innovate UK
Sabine Oberhuber, Turntoo
Susie Tomson, PCSG
NiteshMagdani, Director of Sustainability, BAM Construct UK Ltd
Howard Button, CEO,National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC)
Jane Thornback, Construction Products Association (CPA)
Simon Sturgis, SCP
Gilli Hobbs, Building Research Establishment

Agenda:

Knowledge Resource

#CEThinking Knowledge Resource for Circular Economy Thinking in Construction – an interactive PDF

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Download the interactive pdf from this link:
 http://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/?eID=dam_frontend_push&docID=7073&filename=112212_GCB_Circular_Economy_v4.pdf …

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9.00 Registration and coffee

We are assembling - join us on #CEthinking

9.30 Welcome,Introduction and purpose of the workshop
Robert Pearce, Chair, Green Construction Board Circular Economy Group

Robert Pearce

http://www.greenconstructionboard.org/

9.40 The work of the Green Construction Board
Mike Putnam, Chair, Green Construction Board & CEO, Skanska

Mike is President and CEO of Skanska UK, a company that employs over5,200 people and delivered revenue of £1.3 billion in 2014. He has over 30 years’ experience in the construction sector, many spentleading and managing businesses. He is a chartered engineer and Fellowof the Institution of Civil Engineers and Royal Institution of CharteredSurveyors.
Mike is a member of the Construction Leadership Council, working to deliver the joint industry and government ambitions identified inConstruction 2025, the industrial strategy for construction. He is also Chair of the Green Construction Board, contributing to the green agenda.
Taking an open, people-orientated approach to business, Mike has personally led the implementation of Skanska UK’s Injury-Free Environment programme (IFE), embedding a culture of care and concern for everyone. During his tenure, not only has the frequency of injuries been reduced, butalso their severity.
Mike gained his early experience in a variety of positions within the Skanskagroup, before becoming an Executive Vice President in 2001 and President and CEO in 2009. Based in Oxfordshire, Mike and his wife, Gabriella, have four children. Always one to lead by example, Mike has built his own eco-home.

http://www.skanska.co.uk/

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698082812575010817

9.50 Why should we want a circular economy? What’s the business case – the benefits and opportunities for the Built environment?
Mike Pitts, Innovate UK

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/mikepitts

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk

http://twitter.com/z_fitzg/status/698083831291736064

http://twitter.com/z_fitzg/status/698085857853599744

http://twitter.com/z_fitzg/status/698086552908492800

10.10 Design with a CE approach and case studies, The Netherlands
Sabine Oberhuber, Turntoo

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabine-oberhuber-5a041115

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698087744044732417

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698090353317044224

10.30 Designing for the circular economy – Land Rover Ben Ainslie Racing Building, Portsmouth
Susie Tomson, PCSG

Susie established Earth to Ocean, one of PCSG’s group companies, in 2009. The company delivers a wide-range of specialist environmental services which help clientsto maximise the sustainability of their organisations and build a strong,ethical reputation. A natural strategist, Susie has supported and delivered thesustainability commitments and programmes of many major sporting eventsincluding the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Ryder Cup and SirBen Ainslie’s America’s Cup campaign. Within PCSG Susie leads our delivery ofenvironmental services for our clients and drives our internal implementationof such services. Susie has a BSc in Geography, an MSC in Water andEnvironmental Management and a PhD in Integrated Coastal Management. She isalso an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management andAssessment (IEMA).

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/susietomson

http://www.pcsg.co.uk/team/susie-tomson/

http://www.earth2ocean.co.uk/

10.50 How can the contractor procure for circular economy outcomes? What has been learned so far and what are the potential future directions
Nitesh Magdani, Director of Sustainability, BAM Construct UK Ltd

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitesh-magdani-6378bb12

http://sustainability.bam.co.uk/our-people/nitesh-magdani

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698098926117896192

http://twitter.com/z_fitzg/status/698099560766431232

11.10 Coffee break

11.30 What advice can the demolition industry provide to facilitate the circular economy in construction?
Howard Button, CEO, National Federation of Demolition Contractors

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/howard-button-98b01922

http://demolition-nfdc.com/officer/howardbutton.html

http://twitter.com/bps_eco/status/698116799322320897

11.50 What does circular economy thinking look like from the UK based construction product manufacturing sector?
Jane Thornback, Construction Products Association (CPA)

Jane Thornback

Jane is Sustainability Policy Adviser at the Construction Products Association, the trade association representing the UK-based product manufacturing and distribution sector. Since joining CPA 10 years ago she has led the development of the Association’s programme on resource efficiency, chaired the Manufacturers Advisory Group for the revision of the BRE Green Guide, played a leading role in the development of formal standards for responsible sourcing,co-authored a variety of reports including the Guide to Understanding the Embodied Impacts of construction products, the role of manufacturers in water management and a London 2012 Olympic Learning Legacy report on delivering sustainable solutions through the supply chain. Jane liaises closely withgovernment departments and their agencies as well as research bodies and thewider construction industry. She is a member of the joint government and industry Green Construction Board’s Circular Economy Working Group for which she also is the secretariat and prior to that had a similar role in managing the GCB’s Greening the Industry Group looking to deliver targets on waste, water,materials, carbon and biodiversity from the 2008-2012 Strategy for Sustainable Construction.
Before joining the construction world, Jane worked on international environmental and development policy issues for the British government and IUCN – the World Conservation Union.

http://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TwqnarUa14I

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698117023251984384

12.10 How can designers assess their designs for “circularity?” What tools can be used to measure progress?
Simon Sturgis, SCP

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simon-sturgis-38a89313

http://sturgiscarbonprofiling.com/

12.25 What new circular economy measurement methodologies, tools and standards are being investigated?
Gilli Hobbs, Building Research Establishment

Gilli has the role of directing strategic business and research across the Building Futures Group at BRE which includes oversight of energy and resource efficiency, sustainable communities, low carbon design, strategic energy, building performance evaluation, building innovation and process efficiency. This builds upon 22 years of experience in the area of material resource efficiency, primarily in developing best practice in construction and demolition waste management, such as waste benchmarking and prevention programmes and projects.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gilli-hobbs-116b384

http://www.ronneby.se/en/sidowebbplatser/bamb/

https://www.facebook.com/bamb2020

http://twitter.com/markinnovate/status/698122718584115200

12.40 Lunch

13.30 Introduce the afternoon session Rob Pearce

13.40 Breakout Groups – World café style (35 mins / 20 mins / 15 mins) – two facilitators each

1. Business models

· What is needed to make CE in construction become business as usual?
· Are there models for Infrastructure Projects and for Built Environment Projects ? –could the sectors learn and share ?
· Are some components or parts of the construction process more easily suited to benefit from CE than others?
· Do you know of successful examples that should be more widely shared?
· Are there specific parts of the construction supply chain that can benefit from CE?
· What factors are seen to be restricting the pace at which industry can adopt CE?


Facilitators: Mike Wray (KTN) and Simon Sturgis

The #business model group v3 #CEthinking

2. Design & Construction for circularity

· Are there benefits for the designers and constructors in adopting CE for infrastructure and built environment projects?
· What do designers and the supply chain need – information, design tools, etc – to deliver CE outcomes?
· Dodifferent design disciplines need different info and tools?
· May designers and constructors depend on clients and developers demanding CE in the industry to make it happen?

Facilitators: Nitesh Magdani and Howard Button

The #Design and Construction group - third iteration world cafe style #CEthinking

3. Material & Product circularity

· How can industry promote reuse/recycle /reduce for differing values of material & product?
· How does industry promote secondary markets for components, products and raw materials?
· What can the supply chain do with components or products that are obsolescent or actually obsolete at end of life?
· What materials can be up-cycled?
· Are there 10 changes that will make a big difference?

Facilitators: Katherine Adams and Jane Thornback

Katherine has been working closely with the construction sector for 15 years providing advice and guidance on materials resource efficiency. This has involved numerous activities including the development of Resource Efficiency Action Plans, a methodology for measuring waste to landfill, responsibility for BRE’s SMARTWaste system and a secondment to Defra. Katherine is now using all this knowledge and expertise by now undertaking a PhD at Loughborough University on looking how to apply circular economy in the built environment.

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/katherine-adams-02410a7

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The #material group have made a lot of notes #CEthinking

4. Measurement of circularity

· There are some existing measurement methodologies, standards in development, and maybe emerging tools, are they appropriate or do they need changing / evolving?
· What R&D on tools and methodologies in CE is most needed?
· How can circularity measures be developed that can be included in established standards such as BREEAM or perhaps even Building Regulations?
· Are there measures for Infrastructure projects , and for Built Environment projects? – can they use the same measures ?

Facilitators: Gilli Hobbs and Luca Petruccelli (Granta)

Living Building Challenge

The #measurement group reconvenes #CEthinking

14.50 Grab a coffee whilst facilitators collate feedback

15.00 Facilitators report back – Top three points each followed by open discussion

15.40 Summary and Next Steps – Rob Pearce

15.50 Close of meeting

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