The Construction Leaders’ Summit: Building Better

Jane Anderson
Director, ConstructionLCA Limited

Jane has over 20 years’ experience in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Embodied Carbon and Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for the construction industry. She has provided consultancy around this to Welsh Government and the European Commission, and reviewed projects for BSI, RICS, CIBSE and WRAP. She has written guidance on Embodied Carbon for Woodknowledge Wales, ASBP, Construction Products Association, CIRIA and WRAP. She represents the UK in the development of European and International standards for EPD and Building LCA and acts as a verifier for several European EPD programmes including BRE.

Will Ardill
Technical Director at KSS

Will joined KSS as an architectural technologist in 2001, and having demonstrated his all-round abilities on a broad range of projects became a technical director of the practice in 2009. As well as focusing on construction information and specification writing for specific projects, he has a wider brief covering detailed design coordination, problem solving, supplier liaison and staff training. He is jointly responsible for quality assurance in respect to the technical output of the practice and leads the ongoing refinement of our BIM protocols and project information management.

Sarah Delany
Head of Classification, NBS

As Head of Classification at NBS, Sarah has nearly 45 years of construction industry experience as a building services engineer. For the past few years, she has been responsible for, and continues to manage, the development of the construction industry classification system, Uniclass 2015. She took on this role following the appointment of NBS to prepare a digital plan of works and classification system for the BIM task group, as part of the UK government’s BIM Level 2 tools. Sarah has actively collaborated with senior building and infrastructure experts throughout the construction and asset management industry to ensure Uniclass 2015 comprehensively covers the requirements of these sectors.

Dr Stephen Hamil
Innovation Director, NBS

Innovation Director at NBS, Stephen has played a big part in the developments of products such as NBS Chorus and NBS Source. He was the project lead for the development of the BIM Toolkit on behalf of the UK Government’s BIM Task Group and the Uniclass 2015 classification system was a major deliverable as part of this project.

Rachel Hoolahan
Architect and Sustainability Coordinator, Orms

Rachel Hoolahan is an architect and sustainability co-ordinator at Orms Architects. For the past few years, the practice has engaged in a series of deep research assignments and is utilising this data and knowledge to push the boundaries of sustainable development – both in refurbishment and new build projects. Recently, she led a research piece on material passports as part of a wider Grosvenor Estate Innovation Project into material reuse. The outcome of this work is a methodology for encouraging more meaningful material reuse, by creating a material database for the project. The approach is deliberately open source and flexible, allowing design teams of any size or skill set to apply the work to their projects.

Lee Jones
Head of Manufacturer Solutions, NBS

Lee has over 20 years’ experience in the manufacturing sector, predominantly working with building product manufacturers. Most recently before joining the NBS, Lee was the Digital Construction Manager at international sanitary ware firm ‘Ideal Standard’, where he was responsible for the digitalisation of the groups products, seeing them become leaders in the field of BIM and structured product data. Lee is also a qualified Mechanical Engineer and Architectural Technologist, holding a Masters’ Degree in Sustainable Architecture and Healthy Buildings.