Building Brum - Net Zero Carbon: What’s Stopping Us?
Hosted by Willmott Dixon
November 16th 2021 - 17.30 | 21.00 - The Grand Hotel | Birmingham
COP26 is just around the corner. What better time has there been for the built environment to lead the net zero transition? With COP26 focusing on governments and world leaders agreeing what they are going to do – how can the rest of us get involved?
We’re pleased to be hosting this event at the prestigious Grand Hotel in November, to bring together experts to debate the net zero challenges for the built environment. Willmott Dixon have committed to ensuring all of their building projects and refurbishments achieve net zero carbon in operation by 2030. With networking opportunities, a panel debate and Q&A, it’s guaranteed to be an insightful evening.
Julia Barrett, Willmott Dixon Chief Sustainability Officer and Director of the Aldersgate Group will be primed to share her valuable insights on the progress made at COP26, as well as hosting the panel debate. We’ll dig deep into the real challenges of net zero, understand how the private and public sector can collaborate in this endeavour, discuss commercial approaches, and share learnings, solutions and approaches.
We are delighted to that we will be joined by a panel including Deborah Cadman OBE, Chief Executive of Birmingham City Council, Belinda Morgan Partner - Cundall and Tim Carey Chief Product Director of Collida.
We welcome you to join us. It’s Now or Never. What’s stopping you?
Julia Barrett, Chief Sustainability Officer, Willmott Dixon
As the Chief Sustainability Officer, Julia leads on realising Willmott Dixon’s 'purpose beyond profit' through the Group’s sustainability strategy, Now or Never.
Willmott Dixon has been net zero in its own operations since 2012 and great sustainability performance has saved the company millions of pounds in that time. As well as challenging the business to become zero-carbon without offsetting by 2030, Julia is passionate about creating added value for customers by delivering brilliant buildings that are net zero by design, future-climate ready and optimise user health and wellbeing. She encourages the opportunities for learning with and from supply chain partners as the business aims to deliver projects with net zero embodied carbon by 2040.
Deborah Cadman OBE - Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council
Deborah became Chief Executive of the Birmingham City Council in June 2021, following over 30 years’ in public services.
Previous senior roles included Chief Executive of the WMCA, Head of Policy at Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council and Local Government Advisor to the Ministerial Team at the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Following roles as the Audit Commission's Best Value Service Lead Inspector for the London region and Chief Executive for St Edmundsbury Borough Council and the East of England Development Agency, Deborah was Chief Executive of Suffolk County Council from 2011 to 2017.
She was born and bred in Birmingham and attended the University Birmingham. Deborah has a degree in politics as well as a master’s degree in economics and a further Master’s degree in management practice.
Belinda Morgan - Cundall, Partner
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.
Tim Carey – Chief Product Director, Collida
Tim is Chief Product Director and overall business lead for Collida, an integrated design, procurement, manufacturing and construction platform. An influential voice in the industry, Tim is passionate about rethinking the built environment. He is a member of the Construction Leadership Council's Manufacturing Group, a contributor to key government and industry reports and until recently was the chairman of Buildoffsite - a not-for-profit industry organisation promoting the use of offsite and pre-manufactured solutions. A fellow of the CIOB, Tim holds an MBA from the University of Reading.
Chris Clarke -
Performance and Improvement Director, SCAPE
Chris joined SCAPE in 2015, with over 14 years’ of diverse experience working in Local Government, including leadership of organisational change and service improvement as well as capital programme and energy efficiency delivery in the built environment sector.
As Director of Performance and Improvement, Chris is responsible for environmental and social value policy and performance measurement, as well as providing strategic input into the improvement of SCAPE’s service offering and the development of new products. He is also responsible for our group Risk Management strategy, infrastructure and systems.
James Douglas - Head of Sustainability, Lendlease
James Douglas is the Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Construction Europe and is responsible for ensuring the delivery of the Lendlease sustainability targets of Net Zero Carbon by 2025 and Absolute Zero Carbon by 2040 across the construction business. James has experience of delivering lower carbon construction across the building and infrastructure sectors and also has a global perspective on construction solutions after working outside of the UK for a number of years on major infrastructure projects. At Lendlease, James is working with our supply chains to eliminate Scope 1 and 2 emissions, and reduce overall Scope 3 emissions as part of improved produce and building performance.
