Building Brum Presents: Construction Through Collaboration
In partnership with Careys, chaired by Cundall, hosted by WSP
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How do we elevate standards from planning through to project completion and beyond, to deliver operational excellence?
This October alongside our construction partners Carey’s we will be joined by some of Birmingham’s top built environment industry leaders at our latest roundtable to ask them one key question: ‘We all play a part in the product we leave behind and operational excellence is about getting better every day. How do we elevate standards from the first point of contact with architects and planners through to project completion and beyond, to truly deliver operational excellence?’
As follow-up to our earlier Building Brum: Construction Though Collaboration roundtable event which explored “How do we efficiently build a more inclusive, Birmingham, making it renowned as the great place to work in the industry?”. This October our guests will focus on Operational Excellence and how this is lived and implemented across Birmingham’s construction projects by contractors, developers, architects, influencers and clients.
Chaired by Belinda Morgan, Partner, Cundall
Special guest contributors:
Jonathan Stackhouse, Preconstruction Director, John Sisk & Son
Justin Ford, Commercial Manager, Bruntwood Works
Anna Parker, Director, Intervention Architecture
Tom Wraight, Midlands Regional Director, Careys
Fraser Godfrey, Associate, Glenn Howells Architects
Malcolm Davidson, Location Director, WSP
Belinda Morgan, Partner, Cundall
Belinda is a chartered mechanical engineer based in Cundall’s Birmingham office. She is also responsible for Cundall's lifestyle sector. She has over 25 years of experience, working on various types of projects including healthcare, hotels, industrial, retail, leisure, education, residential, telecom and commercial.
Her broad experience has enabled her to bring fresh ideas and new dimensions to a variety of projects. She is mindful of selecting the right design team to suit both the type of project & the clients needs.
Belinda is a Fellow of CIBSE, IHEEM and a member of the Institute of Acoustics.
Justin Ford, Commercial Manager, Bruntwood Works
Commercial Manager for Bruntwood Works in Birmingham, which forms part of the Bruntwood group which has been creating thriving cities for over forty years.
Bruntwood Works creates, owns and manages over 5M sq ft of inspiring workspace environments and offers everything from individual coworking desks and meeting rooms to fully managed offices, in superb locations across Manchester, Cheshire, Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham to help businesses thrive and grow.
Anna Parker, Director, Intervention Architecture
Anna is IA’s founding Director, a RIBA chartered Architect leading the studio and team in Birmingham. Working with artists and local community groups…, … a way of working which provides a holistic design approach for projects, working across fields of design, interiors, furniture, temporary structures, exhibitions, events, lighting, homes, and mixed-use developments.
Tom Wraight, Midlands Regional Director, Careys
“As well as my role supporting our construction teams, I am a facilitator for Leading Edge which is the name we give to our collection of learning opportunities that help our people develop great behaviours and be their best self. Developed in partnership with Franklin Covey, and shaped by Careys, the content benefits people both personally and professionally and what I especially enjoy about helping to deliver it is that there are opportunities for everybody across the group, regardless of their role or the level they operate at.”
Billie Frain, Planning & Development Manager, Calthorpe Estates
Billie is a chartered planning and development surveyor at Calthorpe Estates. For almost 10 years she has worked on the management and regeneration of the 640 hectare mixed-use Estate in Edgbaston.
Calthorpe Estates is a property investment and development company which strives to deliver excellence and distinction for the long term, whilst responsibly enhancing its environment to create exceptional places.
Most recently Billie is taking the lead in delivering a new ESG policy and Net Zero Carbon Pathway for Calthorpe Estates, acknowledging the importance of sustainability, people and place across the portfolio.
Fraser Godfrey, Associate, Glenn Howells Architects
Fraser’s has extensive experience in concept design, early-stage development and project delivery which has made him an important part of one of Glenn Howells Architects Birmingham Studios, which he co-leads as an Associate.
He is currently working on Typhoo Wharf and Goods Yard. Fraser has also worked on completed projects including i9 Wolverhampton; Hythe at Wirral Waters; Wirral Metropolitan College; London City Island; Ty Admiral in Cardiff and Gloucester Services.
Fraser has studied at the University of Bath, the Welsh School of Architecture in Cardiff and completed his Part III at Birmingham City University’s School of Architecture and Design.
Projects: Typhoo Wharf, Digbeth - i9 Wolverhampton Interchange, Wolverhampton - Millers Quay, Birkenhead - Bloc Grand Central, Birmingham - Gloucester Services, Gloucester - Ty Admiral, Cardiff
Malcolm Davidson, Location Director, WSP
Malcolm is Director for WSP’s UK business leading a team of Civil and Structural Engineers at the WSP Birmingham Office. Malcolm has delivered multi-disciplinary projects across the UK, Africa and Middle East in the commercial, residential, healthcare, retail and rail sectors.
Malcolm is also Location Director for WSP UK’s 700+ strong Birmingham office and Vice Chair of the Association of Consulting and Engineering Midlands Branch.
Operational excellence:
- Health and safety – How do we continue to improve health and safety, ensuring the industry has a reputation we can be incredibly proud of? We are not going to sit back and get complacent and want Birmingham’s construction projects to have the best health and safety record in the UK.
- Cost and commercial – How do we best reduce our operational costs and be more effective in change control and reducing wastage on delivering projects in the region?
- Planning – How do we better monitor, track and achieve improvements in projects completing on time, in accordance with the latest, agreed programme?
- Community – How do we work more closely with our supply chain communities to ensure responsible and ethical sourcing and with our local communities to deliver added social value?
- Engagement and wellbeing – How do we focus on providing the best conditions we can for
- everyone’s health and wellbeing on Birmingham’s projects, so people feel valued and can bring their authentic selves to work?
- Digital transformation – How can digital systems enhance what we can do, not diminish it? We don’t want anyone to spend their time on repetitive, duplicated tasks that only need to be done once.
- Daily Management - Daily Management, done correctly, results in a project environment in which problems are identified early and solved collaboratively between the project team and external partners such as Design Consultants and Subcontractors. Are we having timely course correction conversations and taking appropriate action? – Are our teams and partners having short, sharp daily reviews?
- Ultimately, how can Operational Excellence initiatives create value; both for the customer, and the business itself?
Construction Through Collaboration:
Three Part Series Agenda Overview
Great Place to Work:
- Inclusion & diversity: How do we ensure everyone is represented, included and accepted in our industry so that inclusion and diversity become part of what the industry is known for across all construction projects in Birmingham?
Operational Excellence:
- Health and safety – How do we continue to improve health and safety, ensuring the industry has a reputation we can be incredibly proud of? We are not going to sit back and get complacent and want Birmingham to have the best health and safety record in the UK.
Partner of Choice:
- Supply chain partners – As the UK’s second city, how do we better use and harness the local supply chain’s specialist knowledge, insight and skills? Essential to us innovating, improve, and becoming better every day.
Do you want to find out more and contribute into the conversation “How do we elevate standards from planning through to project completion and beyond, to deliver operational excellence?” Contact Careys Regional Director Tom Wraight: tom.wraight@careysplc.co.uk
For more information about the wider Construction Through Collaboration Series, please contact Building Brum Programme Director Conor Nolan: Conor@curzon-consultants.uk
General tickets are not available for this round table discussion, interviews and key insights from the construction through collaboration series will be made available after each event.
