Conference Programme 2022

The CPD-accredited conference at Education Estates® covers areas including funding, design, construction, management and maintenance of schools, colleges and universities.

Registering as either a Public Sector or Private Sector Delegate will gain you access to the conference sessions below as well as the exhibition.

Registering for a free Visitor will only allow you to access the exhibition and keynote sessions.

Main Stage (Speakers, Chairpersons & Delegates Only)
Keynotes (Free)
Construction & Delivery (Speakers, Chairpersons & Delegates Only)
Design Stage (Speakers, Chairpersons & Delegates Only)
Estates & Facilities Management Stage (Speakers, Chairpersons & Delegates Only)
Sustainability Stage (Speakers, Chairpersons & Delegates Only)

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Registration | Exhibition Visit

Main Stage

60 mins

Reviewing 10 years of Centralised School Capital Delivery

Main Stage

60 mins

Reviewing 10 years of Centralised School Capital Delivery

Sharon Wright, Senior Associate - the-Learning-crowd

Vicky Brooks, Deputy Director of Capital Commercial - Department for Education

Andrew Dutton, Account Director, Schools & Colleges - Arcadis
How to Deliver Inclusive Learning Environments

Construction & Delivery Stage

60 mins

Design for the Mind: Neurodiversity and the Built Environment

Shane Cryer, Concept Developer – Education - Saint-Gobain Ecophon

Claire Barton, Partner - Haverstock

Jean Hewitt, Senior Inclusive Design Consultant & Trainer - Buro Happold
Innovating Pedagogy for the Future of Estates

Design Stage

60 mins

Evolving Pedagogies for Learning Estates

Learning-space aligner: A framework for integrated learning spaces

Neil Thomas, Senior Associate - the-Learning-crowd

Hiral Patel, Lecturer in Architecture - Cardiff University

Lucy Plumridge, Associate Director - HLM Architects
Education Analytics

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

60 mins

The Value of Data in Education: A focus on estates and sustainability

Matt Isherwood, Director Of Estates - Brooke Weston Trust
Managing Energy Efficiency to Reach Net Zero

Sustainability Stage

60 mins

Decarbonising a university estate – the path beyond a pathway: Developing a Business Case for the transition to Net Zero

FM & Net Zero Carbon

Suzanne Lloyd, Sector Director – Universities, Science and Health - Arcadis

James Dickinson, Director - Energy - Buro Happold

Mark Dolling, Business Development Director (Local Government & Education) - Mitie

Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break

Main Stage

30 mins

Keynote Address

Main Stage

30 mins

Department for Education Keynote Address: Baroness Barran MBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System) & Rory Kennedy, Director of Capital, Department for Education

Mel Manku, Partner & Managing Director - Arcadis

Baroness Barran MBE, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School System) - Department for Education

Rory Kennedy, Director of Capital - Department for Education

How Design and Innovation can help achieve Zero Carbon Schools

Main Stage

60 mins

Can an Energy Pod System be Used as a Means to Decarbonisation?

Gemma Taylor, Energy Carbon and Performance Lead - Department for Education

Helen Groves, Architect Director - Atkins Limited

Andrew Dutton, Account Director, Schools & Colleges - Arcadis

Ian Keeling, Principal Mechanical Engineer - Cundall

Raadiyah Rifath-Dodsworth, Senior Architect - Atkins
Utilising Digital Technologies to improve construction

Construction & Delivery Stage

60 mins

Fitzalan school: fully harnessing the benefits of digital construction

Using Digital Technologies & Data Analytics to Improve the Operational Performance of Higher and Further Education Estates

Ann Allen, Executive Director Campus Innovation and Development - University of Leeds

Andrew Miles, Project Director - Kier Construction

Russell Baker, Senior BIM Manager - Kier Construction

Dean Drobot, Head of Energies & Utilities Management - University of Edinburgh

Michael Pollock, Consultancy Manager - HVAC Modelling - IES
The Pursuit of Planning

Design Stage

60 mins

The Pursuit of Planning

Paul Turpin, UK Education Lead - IBI Group

Ian Runeckles, Regional Planning Lead - Department for Education

Paul Lulham, Director (Transport) - DHA Planning

Matthew Blythin, Director - DHA Planning
Refreshing 1960s Buildings for Modern Learning

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

60 mins

Rehabilitating 1960s Brutalist buildings for a new future

Ian Caldwell, Strategic Facilities Adviser - Kings College London

Mike Entwisle, Partner and Global Education Sector Director - Buro Happold
Helping Clients Achieve Net Zero

Sustainability Stage

60 mins

Helping existing schools get to net zero carbon

Getting to Net Carbon Zero: Developing a Decarbonisation Roadmap

Jane O'Leary, Strategic Advisor - ISG Construction

Alan Fogarty, Partner - Cundall

Peter Hazzard, Associate Director - Schools and Colleges Sector Lead - Cundall

Matt Isherwood, Director Of Estates - Brooke Weston Trust

Exhibition Visit | Lunch Break

Main Stage

75 mins

Reimagining Learning Spaces to improve mental health and wellbeing

Main Stage

75 mins

Reinventing Classrooms

St Helen’s College

Exploring the future of HE workspaces: mental health, wellbeing, and performance in a post Covid-19 academic environment

Catherine Mackay, Director - Apteriors

Shahana Knight, Childhood Trauma Specialist - TPC Therapy LTD

David Judge, Executive Creative Director - Space Zero

Harry Hoodless, Founding Director - Studio Hoodless

Yolanda Rendón-Guerrero, Research Innovation Fellow at the Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre (ATiC) - University of Wales Trinity Saint David

Marié Nevin, Architect - Stride Treglown

Amy Bendall, Research Assistant at Psychological Evaluation and Research Consultancy Hub (PERCH) - University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Using Modern Methods of Construction to Deliver Sustainable Buildings

Construction & Delivery Stage

75 mins

Using MMC and Timber to Deliver Lifetime Net Zero

Delivering sustainable buildings for education through MMC

Richard Hipkiss, Development Director - MPBA

Mark Brown, Consultant - TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings

Chris Leese, Head of Engineering - TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings

Joe Shepherd, Associate Director – Education Sector Lead - Reds10
Adapting Design for all SEND Requirements

Design Stage

60 mins

SEND Schools: Should one size fit all?

Designing for deaf children

The Deaf Academy: Learning from the Inhabitants

Lucy Plumridge, Associate Director - HLM Architects

Zane Putne, Senior Architect - Noviun Architects

Peter Gale, Principal Consultant - Mary Hare School

Andrew Fifield, Associate Director - ArchitecturePLB

Danny Harris, Head of Schools & Colleges - Stride Treglown
Good Estate Management

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

75 mins

Trusts Application of the Good Estate Management for Schools (GEMS) to enhance estate outcomes and review of the DfE’s Capital Adviser Programme

Five ideas to change your world

Post Pandemic Campus - Efficient estate

Tim Warneford, Academy funding consultant - Warneford Consulting

Lindsay Harris - Department for Education

Andrew Dutton, Account Director, Schools & Colleges - Arcadis

Will Attlee, Associate Director of Development - LocatED

Trevor Payne, Director of Estates - University of Birmingham
Department for Education Sustainability Award Shortlist Spotlight

Sustainability Stage

75 mins

Hershil Patel, Head of Energy - Department for Education

Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break

Main Stage

30 mins

Closing Keynote Address

Main Stage

45 mins

Educating the Future of Construction: ESG x AEC = GBT *
*Great British Talent

Daniel Bateson, Digital Engineer - Laing O’Rourke

Alison Watson, Founder and Chief Executive - Class of Your Own

Harry Hoodless, Founding Director - Studio Hoodless

Johan John, Trainee Architectural Technician - AEW Architects

Lauren Cunningham, Civil Engineering Degree Apprentice - Sweco

John Haylett, Building Surveyor - Atkins

EduFest Networking Drinks Reception

Main Stage

60 mins

Adapting Design for all SEND Requirements

60 mins

Registration | Exhibition Visit

Main Stage

60 mins

The FE Capital Funding Journey and what the future holds

Main Stage

60 mins

The FE Capital Funding Journey and what the future holds

Helen Groves, Architect Director - Atkins Limited

Simon Claridge, Head of Programme Delivery, FE Capital Transformation Fund - Department for Education

Sally Pearson, Project Director - Free Schools Capital, Institutes of Technology and FE Capital Transformation Fund
Gender Diversity & Inclusion in Education and Construction

Construction & Delivery Stage

60 mins

Building a workforce for the future

Jenn Harris, Project Director - Department for Education

Jane O'Leary, Strategic Advisor - ISG Construction

Carrie-Ann Huelin, Group Head of Social Value - ISG
Investing in the Great Outdoors

Design Stage

60 mins

Green Infrastructure’s Role in Creating a Resilient Educational Estate

The often overlooked, Landscape as a Green Asset for Education Investment

Rachel Fisher, Deputy Director Land Use Policy - DEFRA

Meaghan Kombol, Sustainability Design Advisor for Green Infrastructure - Department for Education

Steve Ridley, Associate Director - Bond Bryan
What Impact can Policy & Standards have on Delivering Social Value?

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

60 mins

How can we work together to maximise the impact of social value for everyone?

Peter Masonbrook, Head of Social Value - Faithful + Gould
Decarbonising the School's Estate

Sustainability Stage

60 mins

The Future of all Electric Schools

Sustainable Communities for Learning

Andrew Dutton, Account Director, Schools & Colleges - Arcadis

Peter Hazzard, Associate Director - Schools and Colleges Sector Lead - Cundall

Paul Giles, Principal Electrical Engineer - Cundall

Neal O'Leary, Programme Director – Sustainable Communities for Learning - Welsh Government

Exhibition Visit | Coffee Break

Main Stage

30 mins

Evolving Biophilic Design to Improve Wellbeing

Main Stage

75 mins

Nurturing the Education Estate

H-FARM Campus: a new design approach to education

Biophilic Design of Schools

Mark Brown, Consultant - TG Escapes Modular Eco-Buildings

Joe Clancy, Green Infrastructure - Sustainability Design Advisor - Department for Education

Antonello Barbaro, CEO-General Manager - H - Farm

Tracy Meller, Senior Partner - RSHP

Rokhshid Ghaziani, Lecturer in Architecture - De Montfort University
Designing for the Future of Sustainable Learning

Design Stage

75 mins

A holistic example of creating a socially sustainable education setting

How the last two years will positively change our children’s future learning environment

Trevor Wills, Chair, University Design Forum - Director of Estates & Facilities, University of Plymouth

Robert Hopkins, Director & Head of Sustainability - AHR

Paul Turpin, UK Education Lead - IBI Group

Charles Booth, Head of Projects & Programme Management - London Borough of Wandsworth
Strategies to Create an Efficient Estate

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

75 mins

Advancing quality in the FE Estate

How to futureproof an FE estate

Reviewing a campus to create an efficient model

Michael Lea, Head of Planning - Capital Directorate - Department for Education

Jennifer Singer, Capital Programme Design Advice Lead - schools and colleges - Department for Education

Stephen Hill, Lead Design Advisor - Department for Education

Rav Cheema, Senior Associate - LocatED

John Ridgett, Associate Director - Atkins Limited
Considering Strategies & Tools for Decarbonisation

Sustainability Stage

75 mins

Embodied Carbon Calculator

Making Carbon Visible

Poppy Parsons, Low Carbon Construction Lead - Galliford Try

Helen Groves, Architect Director - Atkins Limited

Exhibition Visit | Lunch Break

Main Stage

75 mins

International Design Approaches to Education Estates

Main Stage

75 mins

Why the Germans Do it Better

Intentional Redesign of Malaysian Public Schools through Stakeholder Engagement

Crawford Wright, Head of Architecture and Design - Department for Education

Simon Innes, Founding Director - Innes Associates

Nur Syazadiyanah Binti Suraini, Senior Associate for School Transformation - Edvolution Enterprise
The importance of Modern Methods of Construction in Education

Construction & Delivery Stage

75 mins

Modular Construction for Schools; Learning lessons

MMC has always had a place in the Education new build market, but is the nature of the projects changing and is the uptake and use of MMC increasing?

Andy King, Group Technical Director - Wernick Group Limited

Ian Naylor, Technical Standards Design Research Unit - Department for Education

David Tucker, Architect - Rivington Street Studio

Stephen Wightman, Head of MMC - faithful + Gould
Designing future FE & HE Learning Environments

Design Stage

75 mins

Nothing is permanent except change: design and use trends across education’s built environment

Future Learning Environments – aligning learning and space to the fast-shifting paradigm

Collaboration in HE / Public Private Partnerships the future for higher education

Lucy Plumridge, Associate Director - HLM Architects

Richard Golledge, Studio Principal - IBI Group

Richard Mallinson, Associate Studio Director - IBI Group

Afshan McKay, Associate Director - Bond Bryan

Laura Sherliker, Director - Fairhursts Design Group
How to take Care of PFI Assets

Estates & Facilities Management Stage

75 mins

Is the Education sector ready to take back their PFI Assets?

Phil Bishop, Director of Property - Capita

Dan Rudley, Deputy Director, Private Finance - Department for Education

Gemma Legard, Project Director, Private Finance - Department for Education
The Retrofit Revolution

Sustainability Stage

75 mins

Using deep retrofit to create space for learning

Lessons learnt on collaborative funding and education to a retrofit 10 storey office building

Old Buildings, New Beginnings

Victoria Turner, Director - Levitt Bernstein

Michael Cambden, Architect Director - BDP

Adrian Stubbs, Associate Director - Bond Bryan Architects

Marcus Lloyd-Davy, Director of Estates & Capital Projects - Newham College

Closing Keynote Address

Main Stage

55 mins

Panel Discussion - Reflections & Learning Points

Michael Lea, Head of Planning - Capital Directorate - Department for Education

Helen Groves, Architect Director - Atkins Limited

Sharon Wright, Senior Associate - the-Learning-crowd

Claire Jackson, Education Director - Galliford Try

Matt Isherwood, Director Of Estates - Brooke Weston Trust

Event Close

Main Stage

0 mins

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