It has been one year since the Building Safety Act (BSA) came into effect on 1 April 2023, bringing additional duties and regulations enforced from October 2023. We are also one year on with our experience of the BSA.
Last year we hosted a sold-out half-day seminar that explored the initial introduction of the Act, one year on we’re bringing the construction industry together again to hear from experts on the new measures in place and how the Act has changed the industry. Our speakers will share their experience of working with the BSR on applications made under the BSR and how clients are taking this into account in their projects.
This seminar will also explore the impact of the legislation so far, including the new roles and responsibilities. In addition, we will discuss new key terminology, important considerations for new buildings and existing buildings, and the process for building safety certification.
This seminar is essential for clients, developers, NHS Trusts, manufacturers, contractors, surveyors, and individuals involved in the design, construction, ownership, operation, and management of buildings.
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Agenda
08:30 - 09:00: Registration and breakfast
09:00 - 12:30: Speaker sessions
12:30 - 13:00: Panel Q&A
13:00: Lunch
Speakers
Allan Binns, Safety Director - Ryder Architecture
Allan joined Ryder in 2018, bringing 15 years of experience in construction health and safety, having worked in a variety of sectors including education, healthcare, residential and commercial.
Allan is IOSH and NEBOSH qualified, and member of the APS East Midlands regional committee. Allan has overseen the integration of the principal designer role into practice, and continues to lead on health and safety initiatives.
Martin Taylor BSc, MRICS, PgDip, Executive Director - LABC and Building Safety Competence Foundation
Martin has delivered building control services for a wide portfolio of clients and work types including complex and more specialist buildings. This has included a period of time with a national approved inspector as their Regional Managing Associate, managing key national clients.
Martin coordinated LABC's responses to Dame Judith Hackitt's independent review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety and was a member of two of the Working Groups that informed both the interim and final report.
Martin is now part of HSE/DLUHC's Joint Regulators' Group and various supplementary working groups piloting the new regulatory tools and approached detailed within the Building Safety Act.
Jennifer Jones KC, Barrister - Aktin Chambers
Jennifer practises both domestically and internationally, with a particular expertise in multi-party TCC litigation and in international arbitrations in the fields of large construction projects and energy disputes.
Jennifer’s main areas of specialisation are construction and engineering, professional negligence and energy, and she also has valuable experience in disputes concerning the construction and enforcement of guarantees/ bonds and of jurisdictional and conflicts issues, which regularly arise as incidental to other matters. Her experience includes advising one of the participants in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry about its potential exposure.
Malcolm Hankey, Director - BlueLight Management
Malcolm is a specialist Project Manager, highly experienced in the management and delivery of major complex construction and engineering projects, with particular emphasis on project strategy/turnaround solutions for distressed projects, defects remediation, compliance solutions and legal/contractual disputes.
Malcolm has expertise in project delivery, commercial management, contract management, design management, defects management and legal management, providing a combination of services that deliver solutions to clients that are typically experiencing programme and commercial slippage or technical and/or contractual disputes.
Phil Morrison, Partner, Real Estate [CHAIR] - Clarion
Phil is head of Clarion's Construction team and is recognised to have expertise in dealing with claims relating to fire stopping and the defective cladding on buildings that have arisen since the Grenfell tragedy. He is dual-qualified in English and Scottish Law and has over 25 years' experience in both contentious and non-contentious matters in the construction industry. Clarion's construction team acts on behalf of clients in the public sector, developers, contractors, and sub-contractors supporting these clients in the use of JCT, NEC, FIDIC and PFI contracts, and more recently providing advice in relation to the Building Safety Act.
Over the past 18 months, Phil has presented to hundreds of people in the public and private sector about the evolving regulations as a result of the Building Safety Act.