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Conferences

PPF Conference – Health Partnerships

The conference will provide delegates with a window into the new and on-going commercial opportunities across several key initiatives in community healthcare.

6-7 February, London
Tel: 0207 970 4770
Email: shelley.jones@centaur.co.uk

Building Schools exhibition and conference

The two-day BSEC conference addresses major issues in the implementation of the government’s Building Schools for the Future programme. Up to 1,000 delegates are expected to attend, including key policy and decision makers from within government and education, as well leading figures in the construction industry. Keynote speakers will address the conference, with presentations from a range of sectors, including DfES, LEAs, Partnership for Schools and the supply chain.

20-21 February, London
Tel: 01474 876979
www.buildingschools.co.uk

The Housing Forum

Regional Conferences The Housing Forum is running six free regional conferences, the first of which is in Manchester.

The conferences will launch regional networks drawn from housing industry leaders involved in innovation and good practice in the supply, manufacture, construction and management of housing.

Topics to be covered on the day will include:

• Strategic issues for sustainable communities.
• The Customer Driven Strategy for housing construction and development.
• New diagnostic tools for measuring improvements in quality and efficiency in the supply chain (commissioned by the Housing Corporation).
• The Housing Forum’s Regional Agenda for Action, giving key players the opportunity to participate and to provide the specific regional perspectives to be incorporated into our national approach.

Manubuild’s first international conference: Open Building Manufacturing Conference topics include Concepts for Manufactured Buildings, Business Processes, Production Technology and Automation, Information and Communication Technology, Training and System integration

25-26 April, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tel: 020 7549 3300
Email: enquiries@ciria.org
www.ciria.org.uk

Seminars

Social Enterprise and Local Government: A Sustainable Model for the Future

Regeneration good practice talks with Alibeth Somers, senior lecturer in Voluntary Sector Policy at London’s South Bank University

18 January, 5.30pm, South Bank University, London
Tel: 020 7815 7798
Email: lepu@lsbu.ac.uk

New DTI Strategy for Sustainable Construction – consultation events

CIEF is holding a series of consultation workshops on behalf of the DTI to support the development of targets for the construction industry and to consider mechanisms for their delivery by industry, together with benchmarking and evaluation of progress. The events will be free to attend. This is as described by the Minister of State for Industry and the Regions in her introduction to the recent DTI Review of Sustainable Construction – October 2006. Five workshops are planned, each of which will cover a themed group of topics:

Waste and Materials - in association with WRAP, 29 January 2007;

The People agenda (covering skills, safety and Respect for People), 31 January 2007;

Procurement (covering whole life costs, facilities managements and quality/aesthetics), 1 February 2007;

Climate Change (including energy), 6 February 2007;

Water (including water use and surface water management), 7 February 2007.

29 January – 7 February , London
Tel: 020 7549 3300
Email: enquiries@ciria.org
www.ciria.org.uk

Green Messages from the US

Although the philosophy of sustainable development has been widely accepted across the world, the US government has not been its strongest supporter. However, this has not prevented a number of governors, city mayors, private foundations, professional associations, urban planners and building designers from promoting more

sustainable urban development (“smart growth”), building design and renewable energy generation. This talk will highlight examples of sustainable urban development and building design in the US.

30 January, Glasgow
Tel: 0141 273 1411
David.Oneill@gcal.ac.uk

Widening Participation in Higher Education

Regeneration Good Practice Talks with Stephen Williams MP, higher education spokesperson, Liberal Democrats

22 February
South Bank University, London
Tel: 020 7815 7798
Email: lepu@lsbu.ac.uk

Exhibitions

Think

Think is a new event for the UK construction and property markets, comprising conferences, exhibitions and networking opportunities around three themes: sustainability, regeneration and innovation.

1-3 May 2007, Excel, London
www.think07.co.uk

Ecobuild, Futurebuild, Cityscape and Regenex

Four shows running consecutively. Futurebuild covers offsite construction; Ecobuild covers sustainable design and construction; Cityscape is for people involved in urban design and development and the management of the public realm; and Regenex will interest anyone involved in regeneration.

27 Feb-1 Mar, Earls Court, London
www.regenex.co.uk

EPEC 2007

The annual exhibition and conference that focuses exclusively on executive property.

19-20 May, ExCeL, London
www.epec2007.com
Tel: 01323 472467
email: andrew@epec2007.com

Interbuild 2007

The anuual building materials show returns to the NEC.

28 October 1 November 2007, NEC Birmingham
Tel: 020 7505 6694
Email: paula.watson@emap.com
www.interbuild.com

Lectures

The Engineering Club: Upgrading Humans – Technical Realities and New Morals

Professor Kevin Warwick from the Department of Cybernetics, University of Reading received a neural implant which linked his nervous system bi-directionally with the internet. With this in place neural signals were transmitted to various technological devices to directly control them, in some cases via the internet, and feedback to the brain was obtained from the fingertips of a robot hand, ultrasonic extra sensory input and neural signals directly from another human’s nervous system.

18 January
Tel: 020 7692 6209
events@buildingcentretrust.org