Events

***This event is invite only***   The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments. Join us on Monday 16th June, for a session with the Major Projects group. More information to follow shortly. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.   ***This event is invite only***  

When: Tuesday 17 June, 2025 11:00am BST Join us for an engaging webinar hosted by BREEAM, focussing on putting people and social value first. This discussion will provide valuable insights into social value and what this means to your organisation, with a focus on the latest thinking and developments in the commercial real estate industry. The panel will explore benefits of BREEAM in relation to social outcomes and show how it meets the challenges of sustainability within the commercial real estate market. What will attendees gain? An understanding of how social value is supported by the latest BREEAM developments. Quick wins for your portfolio from a certification perspective around social value. Real-world examples of how our customers utilise the schemes. Insights into upcoming innovations in BREEAM, and a clear understanding of the language of social value in the built environment. Opportunities to ask questions and engage directly with our expert speakers. Who should attend this webinar? This event is for investors, owners, and operators of commercial buildings, ESG and sustainability leaders, and anyone involved in developing and managing real assets. Notes: Please note that some details in this agenda may be subject to change.    Book Now

Join the Constructing Excellence Innovation Exchange Group on Tuesday 24th June for a session on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). The group will hear from Loughborough University & Skanska, YorHub and Leeds Beckett University about the KTPs they’re engaging in currently. KTPs are are unique collaborative partnerships between businesses and universities, colleges, research organisations and Catapults. They create positive impact and drive innovation. Each KTP addresses a specific challenge and enables the transfer of knowledge, technology, and expertise from the academic partner to the business or organisation. Find out more on the Innovate UK website. During this session we will further explore… What are KTPs? How do they enable better collaboration between industry and academia? What benefits do they bring to business? This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Join the Offsite Manufacturing & Technology group for a visit to Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust’s Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre (CASIC) at Royal Surrey County Hospital. This project is being delivered by MTX, using modern methods of construction, and aims to increase surgical capacity, improve patient care, reduce workflow inefficiencies and help reduce waiting lists, while enabling the use of emerging technological innovations in both robotic and non-robotic surgery. Find out more. On Wednesday 25th June, the Offsite Manufacturing & Technology group will be hosting a site visit to explore the modern methods of construction being employed on the Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre project, due for completion June 2026. Sign up now to reserve your space. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Join the RetroNetZero team for an update on the Regulatory Science and Innovation Network project. RetroNetZero RSIN is an Innovate UK funded network exploring the regulatory challenges to the deployment of innovative products and systems in domestic net zero retrofit. Regulatory science is at the heart of the project: ensuring the use of scientific methods to assess the safety, quality, and efficacy of products, as well as supporting the development of new tools and standards to help make regulatory decisions. Hear about the outcomes from the Network’s first cycle of challenges that have been investigated, and the resources that have been produced: Pathways/ route maps for the adoption of innovations into retrofit projects Regulatory Science Capacity Directory Co-benefits of retrofit – regulatory opportunities Also find out about our second cycle of challenges, and provide your input and feedback during the session: Regulatory issues posing a challenge to the wider adoption of natural fibre insulation products in retrofit Proposals for a demonstration/ monitoring alignment framework across PAS 2035 and SAP Appendix Q Potential consumer protection issues related to over- or under-sizing of heat pumps in retrofit   ***Register for your space here***

Join the Constructing Excellence Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group on 8th July for a session about BSI’s newly published PAS 8700:2025 Modern methods of construction for new build residential properties – Specification. The group will hear more about this PAS from Dan Rossiter, BSI, and Gaynor Tenant, Offsite Alliance, who led the committee. PAS 8700:2025 has been developed to set out the process for the effective deployment of modern methods of construction (MMC) in residential development to improve stakeholder understanding and realize the benefits of MMC. The aim is to support the procurement, design, manufacture, construction and use of safe, resilient and repairable residential buildings that use MMC. Find out more about PAS 8700:2025. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Join the CE Digital By Default group on Thursday 10th July for a session on the BuildAudIt Platform. The group will explore how this Innovate UK funded project can make the building audit process smarter. BuildAudIt was a 12 month Innovate UK funded project (under their BridgeAI funding scheme), involving a consortium including BRE, Enable My Team, UNIT9 Apps, Reusefully and Imperial College. The consortium brought together knowledge and expertise in Pre-retrofit & Pre-demolition audits (PRA / PDA), building data collation/analysis and the use of AI including Large Language Models, natural language processing & visual data recognition. The project has developed a ‘proof-of-concept’ version of an AI-enabled platform for accurate, cost-effective PDA/PRA’s of existing buildings. However, we realise that these tools could be applied to a range of surveys / audits of existing building stock, including sustainability, fire risk, condition surveys, due diligence among other. BRE are now exploring exploitation / commercialisation of project outcomes. Find out more. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

When: Tuesday 22 July, 2025 11:00am BST Join us for an insightful webinar hosted by BREEAM, aimed at those wanting to put nature first. This discussion will provide valuable insights into the language of nature and habitats with a focus on the latest thinking and developments in the real estate industry. The panel will explore the benefits of BREEAM in relation to nature and the benefits of the new BREEAM Version 7 scheme in relation meeting the challenges of sustainability. What will attendees gain? Understand the intrinsic value that BREEAM brings to investors and asset owners around habitat and biodiversity net gain Discover new tools from BREEAM that will keep you up to date with the latest thinking on emerging ESG topics Get a high-level overview of the new BREEAM Version 7 scheme and how it has been created to enhance the performance of buildings for finding their space with nature Real-world examples of how our customers utilise the schemes. Opportunities to ask questions and engage directly with our expert speakers. Who should attend this webinar? This event is for investors, owners, and operators of commercial buildings, ESG and sustainability leaders, and anyone involved in developing and managing real assets. Notes: Please note that some details in this agenda may be subject to change.    Book Now

***This event is invite only***   The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments. Join us on Monday 4th August, for a session with the Major Projects group. More information to follow shortly. This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.   ***This event is invite only***  

Performance Measurement Online Event The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for. We will be joined by Group Chair Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald. Join us on Thursday 4th September for a productive online discussion. Further details to follow shortly.   This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.  

The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.   Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world’s leading government contracts lawyers.   More details on this session will follow shortly… This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

        This event is being held in partnership with Design in Mental Health (DiMHN) The Informed Choices Testing Guidance for Products in Mental Health Facilities, and BRE’s corresponding scheme, support stakeholders in selecting the most suitable products for mental health and care environments. Our free-to-attend open day, exclusively for UK healthcare providers and manufacturing organisations, at the BRE Science Park in Watford will explore the importance of the guidance and the scheme. Hear from expert speakers and subject matter experts, network with like-minded professionals and witness practical demonstrations of the testing process for the Informed Choices scheme. Attendees will also have the opportunity for guided tours of BRE’s extensive laboratory facilities to better understand the independent research capabilities available. Where: Bucknalls Lane, Watford, Herts, WD25 9NH Full instructions on how to find us here When: Date:  Tuesday, 23 September 2025 Registration & refreshments: 9:30am Event closes: 3:00pm Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Notes: Please note that some details in this agenda may be subject to change.  Mental Health Product Testing Products for Mental Health Safeguarding (ProMHS) scheme