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Improving & Promoting Wellbeing & Diversity in Construction & Property Conference; in association with Stephen George + Partners

Tuesday, 11th January 2022 0900hrs – 1600hrs

This online conference will focus on diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing in the construction and property industry.

Worker wellbeing in the construction industry has rarely been out of the headlines over the past few years – and rightly so – and that’s why we’re committed to running a free-to-attend virtual event focused on EDI and Wellbeing every six months.

The construction industry has the highest suicide rate of any other profession – whilst several hours a year are lost in productivity due to work-related stress, depression and anxiety. And there are many challenges to overcome – from long hours, extended times working away from home, temporary and precarious nature of many projects, diversity challenges, the ‘macho culture’ and more have all contributed.

This online conference will look to break down stigmas, bring awareness to issues and challenges, and hear from those at the forefront of change – sharing details on what is being done successfully across the UK in many different sectors of the industry. A large focus in the past on Health & Safety has been on physical hazards – and now it’s now to focus on the wellbeing of our most important asset – the workforce.

Topics will focus on:

  • Inclusive regeneration and building communities with people from all backgrounds
  • Challenges of attracting and retaining diverse talents
  • Addressing digital burnout
  • How health inequalities can often supress social mobility
  • We will also challenge our unconscious bias

Speakers for this event include:

Agenda and Programme:

09:00-09:50 Doors Open & Networking

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

09:50-10:00 Conference Welcome

Built Environment Networking; Phil Laycock, Director

10:00-10:20 Keynote by SGP

We will hear a scene setting keynote from our conference partner and leading architect practice SGP.

Stephen George + Partners; Kanti Chhapi, Studio Director

10:25-11:10 Session One: Inclusive Regeneration – Designing Better Places and Communities

We will hear from councils and developers how they create places which promote inclusivity for hard to reach communities. How can place benefit the people and what are their roles as developers and local authorities to ensure different needs are catered for.

Session Sponsor: (Available – click for details)

Landsec; Mo Kebbay, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

Homes England; Chris Standish, Senior Community Engagement Manager

Leeds Community Homes; Claude Hendrickson, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Associate, Accredited Community Led Housing Advisor

Southern Housing Group; Rajvinder Uppal, Social Value Lead

11:10-11:30 Session Wrap Up

Come join Phil Laycock for a wrap up of the previous session. What are your thoughts? What changes would you like to see. Join in the conversation and lets create a dialogue.

11:30-12:30 Session Two: Skills, Training and Talent in Construction

This session will look at what organisations can do to encourage people from different backgrounds in to the industry. How can we step away from standard practices of recruitment and make it more inclusive where we are upskilling our existing employees and focusing on talent retention also encouraging young people into roles within the built environment.

Session Sponsor: (Available – click for details)

Chair: CIOB; Mark Harrison, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Transformation

MOLA; Amy Atkins, Delivery and Implementation Manager

BAM Construction; Jess Morgan, Community & Education Co-ordinator – Western Region

Women Into Construction; Jacqui Wordsworth, Business Development Director

Transport for London; Rupali Sharma-Patel, Engineering Lead- Built to Rent, Property Development

12:30-13:00 Session Wrap Up

Come join Phil Laycock for a wrap up of the previous session. What are your thoughts? What changes would you like to see. Join in the conversation and lets create a dialogue.

13:00-14:00 Session Three: Innovative Ways to Manage Mental Health the Mental Health Crisis

In response to the pandemic, and before that too, many organisations took tactical steps for workers’ mental health. However, we’re pleased to observe, that workplace wellbeing has developed and grown into a key issue in our corporate consciousness. As workplaces change and societal values change too, the approach to workplace wellbeing and culture is now evolving into something altogether more sophisticated. We will hear from experts on how to best manage this.

Session Sponsor: (Available – click for details)

The Crown Estate; Henrietta Frater, Head of HSE and Wellbeing

Karbon Homes; Di Keller, Strategic Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Stephen George + Partners; Nick Austin, Practice Director

14:00-14:30 Networking & Exhibition

Enjoy some networking time with those also attending the conference and visit the exhibitors. You’ll have the ability to video chat in our networking lounge with attendees, or visit the exhibition booths.

14:30-15:30 Session Four: Challenging Unconscious Bias – Developing Awareness and Providing Effective Training Regarding EDI; Sponsored by Stephen George + Partners

How do we challenge our own internal unconscious bias? What has worked for organisations and individuals in cultivating a safe environment for employees from all backgrounds – race, ethnicity, all abilities, neuro diversity, sexuality and many more positioning that could act as a obstruction in how they are perceived

Chair: Stephen George + Partners; Muhammad Khan, Studio Director

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing; Fran Goble, Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Greater London Authority; Amanprit Arnold, Senior Policy Officer – Infrastructure

Greater London Authority; Douglas Russell, Skills and Employment Team Lead

15:30-16:00 Networking, Exhibition & Close

We’re set to have an exceptional line-up of speakers who’ll be sharing their knowledge and expertise around the EDI agenda. Here’s an overview of the confirmed speakers:

MOLA – Amy Atkins, Delivery and Implementation Manager

Amy is the both the Early Careers and Mental Health Lead at MOLA (a major archaeological contractor), giving her unique insight into how workplace training opportunities and wellbeing can go hand in hand. This year Amy has managed the training of 20 new-to-sector trainees from local communities and 25 graduates, and is keen to share the positive impacts this has had for all involved.

Landsec – Mo Kebbay, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

Mo Kebbay is a Diversity and Inclusion Manager at Landsec. With D&I expertise spanning across organisational design, learning and development, training, recruitment and supplier diversity. He is a D&I professional with experience in both the charity and financial services sector. Mo role models inclusive behaviours and is committed to empowering individuals to help build and develop an inclusive and accessible environment that enables everyone to be their best authentic selves.

BAM Construction – Jess Morgan, Community & Education Co-ordinator – Western Region

Specialising in Human Rights & Equality, Jess has led on a number of national positive action programmes that raise aspirations and creates access for disadvantaged groups.  Within her role, she believes in creating a ground up approach, being agile and connecting with communities to positively impact ‘what matters to local people’.  Jess has worked in a number of sectors to include Housing, Sport and Education; and in addition to her work role has had a number of voluntary commitments and board memberships, to include the Welsh Rugby Union Equality Steering Group and Vice Chair of Women in Property.

Homes England – Chris Standish, Senior Community Engagement Manager

Chris is a chartered Town Planner and CIH Member, a member of the NW Design Review Panel and an accredited Community Led Homes Advisor.  Motivated by empowering local communities to transform their places, he joined Homes England in September 2020.  As a senior specialist in the Technical Centre of Excellence, he is responsible for establishing and leading the Community Engagement Team and establishing the agencies approach to community engagement. Prior to Homes England he was Regeneration and Place Lead for a north west housing association where he developed long term transferable approaches to housing led regeneration and transformation.

The Crown Estate – Henrietta Frater, Head of HSE and Wellbeing

The Crown Estate are delivering a £1.5 billion investment and redevelopment plan with sustainability at the centre of their vision, with a commitment to ensure that central London continues to be an outstanding place to work, live and visit. With these high levels of project under their belt, looking after their employees is of utmost priority where mental health is at the forefront. Henrietta is an avid advocate for mental health and wellbeing where she has spoken and implemented actionable processes in place to better support employees.

Leeds Community Homes – Claude Hendrickson, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Associate, Accredited Community Led Housing Advisor

Leeds Community Homes aim to create and enable community-led homes, that are newly built or brought back into use by local people. They collaborate with new scheme providers, councils, developers for ease in the provision of homes benefitting the community. Claude has participated in a number of projects which has transformed the lives of those involved, including- Self build Project, yes Cyber Project and BHI Black Men’s champion. Over the last 15 years, he has worked face-to-face with individuals and groups from all walks of life and backgrounds, with diverse abilities and confidence and have produced consistent outputs in his own work and outcomes for his clients.

Nottingham City Homes – Abigail Greenwood, Construction Employability Officer

More information to follow.

CIOB – Mark Harrison, Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Transformation

Mark Harrison is the Head of EDI Transformation for the CIOB, a role that he started in January 2021. It’s a new position for the CIOB and he reports directly to the CEO, Caroline Gumble, demonstrating how seriously the agenda is being taken there. Mark has over a decade’s experience in lead EDI roles in the housing, charity, and higher education sectors. His most recent previous role was with the Alan Turing Institute developing a strategic approach to EDI in this leading national data science research institute. Prior to that, Mark’s role as Head of Inclusion at the University of London saw him develop a new approach to promoting race equality for staff and embedding inclusive services for the institution’s 50,000 international students. Mark also has experience of the built environment sector having worked with Metropolitan Housing Partnership, achieving 5th place in Stonewall’s highly competitive Workplace Equality Index.

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing – Fran Goble, Head of Diversity and Inclusion

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. They work collaboratively to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that they serve. Fran is a leadership professional specialising in Employee Engagement and Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) areas that she has huge passion for. During her career she has created and delivered true culture change through both strategic and operational solutions. With a background in communications and HR she has a proven track record of consistent delivery of solutions that bring about the reduction of business costs, building better ways of working and creating real culture change.

Stephen George + Partners – Muhammad Khan, Studio Director

Muhammad Khan joined Stephen George + Partners (SGP) in 2020 as a Studio Director based in the London office with close to 18 years of professional experience in project delivery from inception to completion.

Muhammad’s role focuses on SGP’s presence in the south east and London, maintaining and developing relationships with key clients and stakeholders and continuing to deliver the SGP commitment to quality design and practical delivery for our clients.

With experience of design across sectors including mission critical, industrial and logistics, commercial, aviation, retail, residential and healthcare, Muhammad’s focus and is also responsible for developing new business, particularly in areas such as Data Centres, Life Science and Bio-medical.

Muhammad has a particular interest in encouraging and supporting younger architects by mentoring them in collaboration with the RIBA Future Architects Mentoring Scheme with Kingston and London South Bank University. His aim is to create a knowledge share collaborative environment where each member of staff is treated as a valued individual rather than a cog in the machine.

Muhammad is passionate about implementing fair EDI values across the practice by supporting the internal SGP ID group who promote equality, diversity, and inclusiveness within SGP’s offices. He is also part of the Architecture Race Forum administration team as a speaker.

Karbon Homes – Di Keller, Strategic Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

Di is the Strategic Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead at Karbon Homes, a housing association with 30,000 homes across the North East and Yorkshire. Di is an experienced diversity, inclusion and wellbeing specialist working across private, public and third sector organisations in a broad range of industries. Putting people at the heart of the heart of their work, Di shares her personal and professional experience to create the safe spaces for others to develop their knowledge and understanding in these topics.

Transport for London – Rupali Sharma-Patel, Engineering Lead- Built to Rent, Property Development

More information to follow.

Stephen George + Partners – Nick Austin, Practice Director

Nick joined Stephen George + Partners (SGP) in 2004 as an Architect working on multiple logistics, office and commercial schemes falling under the Design & Build and Traditional procurement routes. In 2009 he moved into a Practice Management role, focusing on contractual documentation and professional indemnity requirements, dealing with complex appointments on multi-million-pound schemes across many sectors.

In 2011 Nick gained a PG Diploma in HR Management and has since, as well as the contractual work, taken on this aspect of the practice across all offices. Dealing with complex re-structures, disciplinaries, performance management and reward, Nick is keen to embed transparent systems which are fair and supportive to all involved leading to clear outcomes.

Outside of the organisation, Nick heads up the Architectural HR Network. Started in 2008, the network now has over 120 architectural practices as members, who discuss all matters to do with human resources. Mainly orientated around the London area, this has now expanded across the UK as meetings are held digitally throughout each year.

In 2018 Nick took over as lead on Social Responsibility at SGP and has since developed many projects to demonstrate the organisations offering. In 2021, SGP’s Schools programme won best Social Responsibility Campaign from The Planet Mark.

Nick qualified as a Mental Health First Aider in 2021, and on the back of which has developed into introducing a practice-wide Mental Health weeks where the topic has been specifically focused on developing an understanding across the organisation.

Women Into Construction – Jacqui Wordsworth, Business Development Director

Jacqui Wordsworth, a qualified Mechanical Engineer, has over 20 years’ experience of developing and delivering successful employment and skills projects in both public and private sector across engineering, construction and the green economy. She has led employment and skills programmes in London including the Gateway to Industry programme which supported over 400 businesses, 15,000 young people and created 500 jobs and was responsible for the development of the LDA’s 2017-13 Adult Employment and Skills programme and Green Skills Strategy. Working with private sector engineering and construction companies such as Carillion & Balfour Beatty Living Places to develop their social value offers, she took this experience to set up her own project management consultancy Gateway to Sustainability Ltd in 2016. As a Director of Women into Construction since 2017, she has helped to develop new programmes and diversify funding streams to enable WiC to support over 500 women a year across the UK

Stephen George + Partners – Kanti Chhapi, Studio Director

More information to follow.

Greater London Authority – Amanprit Arnold, Senior Policy Officer – Infrastructure

Amanprit is an experienced international built environment researcher and strategist with over 10 years’ experience. Most recently, she joined the GLA’s Infrastructure team as a Senior Policy Officer to coordinate and plan delivery of infrastructure across London. Previously, Amanprit was a Senior Manager at ULI and Global Research Manager at RICS.

Amanprit holds an MSc in International Planning from University College London funded by a prestigious global scholarship. She also knows British Sign Language (BSL).

Greater London Authority – Douglas Russell, Workforce Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion Manager

More information to follow.

Southern Housing Group – Rajvinder Uppal, Social Value Lead

Rajvinder has over 20 years experience in the public and charitable sector – working in management. In her role at SHG she is a leader in developing and implementing the Social Value in the Housing sector – developing community cohesion, employment and wellbeing initiatives.

Associate your brand with the Wellbeing and Diversity in Construction and Property Conference and position your brand at the forefront of one of the UK’s biggest discussions and debates around EDI in the built environment.

Package Exhibition Stand Chair/ Speaking Opportunity Tickets VIP Backstage Access Cost (+VAT)
Conference Partner Yes Yes 15 Yes £2,500 Sold Out
Session Partner Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,750 View Details
Session Four: Challenging Unconscious Bias – Developing Awareness and Providing Effective Training Regarding EDI Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,500 Sold Out
Best Practice Presentation Package Yes Yes 10 Yes £1,250 View Details
Exhibitor Packages Yes 5 Yes £750 View Details

We have various partnership packages available, including packages with speaking opportunities, exhibition space and those that will drive brand awareness, allowing you to address your whole target audience for maximum brand awareness and impact. Our partnership packages will put you at the forefront of the industry discussion allowing you to be there, be active and be an expert within the construction and property sector, the housing sector and the whole built environment industry.

Conference Partner

Session Partner

£1,750+VAT

The role of the session partner provides an opportunity for you to participate in one of the sessions to build brand awareness, loyalty and trust amongst hundreds of civic and business leaders from across the industry. You’ll be seen to be a thought leader within your area of expertise and showcase your company in front of key decision-makers from across the industry. Benefits include:

  • Ability to help shape the session agenda and content to bring your strategic thinking to the event
  • Option to recommend speakers for the session
  • Inclusion with pre-conference speaker communications
  • Access to the speakers and panellists; an excellent opportunity to establish rapport and build commercially rewarding relationships
  • Branding for the whole conference and your session
  • One speaking position on your panel
  • Option to do a five minute introduction to your panel or thought leaders presentation
  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share downloadable content such as literature
  • 10 online delegate passes for your team or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media etc
  • Master of Ceremonies “thank you” in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion with all PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Session Four Partner: Challenging Unconscious Bias – Developing Awareness and Providing Effective Training Regarding EDI

Best Practice Presentation Package

£1,250+VAT

During the breaks delegates are able to speed network and visit the exhibitors – but with this package you can also give them the option of coming to see your company deliver a 15-minute thought leadership presentation, enabling you to play a key role in the conference. Build brand awareness, loyalty, trust and new business leads amongst numerous civic and business leaders from across the industry. Benefits include:

  • Ability to deliver a 15-minute presentation during one of the break periods
  • Access to the VIP Room – a green room for speakers, VIP guests and sponsors
  • Branding across the rest of the conference
  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share content
  • 10 online delegate passes for your team and/or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media, etc
  • Master of Ceremonies ‘thank you’ in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion in any PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

Exhibitor Package

£750+VAT

If you’re looking for access to the event and a space to meet online delegates and chat with them – then our exhibitor package is perfect. Some people can be reluctant to approach exhibition stands – but online it’s different and you’ll be inundated with enquiries and questions about your brand. Benefits include:

  • Online exhibition space allowing you to video chat with delegates and share downloadable content such as literature
  • 5 online delegate passes for your team or guests
  • Digital media branding: your logo will appear prominently on the website, marketing emails, social media etc
  • Master of Ceremonies “thank you” in the opening and closing speeches
  • Social media – pre, during and post-conference activity
  • Inclusion with all PR and outreach to regional, national and industry press
  • Access to video of the conference after the event

If you’re interested in any of the packages above or if you’re interested in finding out additional information then contact us on:

0113 390 4700

opportunities@built-environment-networking.com

Our online conferences will merge our face-to-face conferences with a virtual platform – providing networking opportunities, exceptional panel discussions and debates, speaker presentations and an exhibition hall.

Here’s a little video highlighting what to expect

And here’s a bit more information of key areas of our online events…

You’ll receive unique log-in details to join our online event via computer or phone – and you’ll be greeted with an easy navigation tool. You’ll be able to navigate to:

Main Stage

Where our ‘Programme’ will take place with excellent speakers and content. You’ll be able to get involved, asking questions and taking part in live polls.

Networking Lounges

Just like a real conference you’ll be able to meet and connect with new people in our forum. You can directly request to chat with someone or you can enter our ‘speed networking’ area to meet numerous new people within the industry. Get your elevator pitch ready!

Sponsor / Exhibitor Area

Meet our partners and sponsors – view what they’re all about, video chat with them and download their literature and product information.

Tickets

Tickets are not currently available for this event.

Details

Date:
Tuesday, 11th January 2022

Time:
0900hrs – 1600hrs

Venue

Online – Hopin


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