• Addressing the challenges and opportunities around recruitment and retention across the sector

• What needs addressing now and what the future will look like.
• Upskilling the workforce/competencies/ the arguments for good quality education and gaining chartered status.
• Keeping accurate and up to date information on buildings
• Embedding culture change to improve safety for all
• The Building Safety Bill

• Introducing the Value Toolkit which will drive better social, environmental and economic outcomes through value-based decision making.
• Allowing our industry to innovate world-leading practices that deliver value in design, delivery and operation.
• Supporting tools to drive better decision making,
• Supporting the path to Net Zero, boost productivity and resilience,
• Delivering higher quality buildings
• Working together to support a permanent shift towards value-based decision-making
• Helping UK construction build a better world through a better built environment

• Improving predictability in construction
• Delivering effective cost prediction through combining a clear definition of the project scope, with the right skills and the right data, within the right system
• Enhancing professionalism by providing a common language to aid consistency and transparency in and across markets
• Ensuring professionals have the skills and competencies to tackle ever more complex projects
• Helping professionals to prepare and use data in the most effective way, such as integration with building information models (BIM)
• Supporting the professional development of your teams to best serve your clients

• An overview of the examples in the historical evolution of the construction industry, followed by it’s vital role in the national economy in the IR 4.0 era.
• A summary of the challenges the industry faces today in the context of skills set in applying technologies and ensure sustainability
• A discussion surrounding what we as educators are doing to contribute to building a better future.

• Pull together data into a coherent and easily comprehensible form that would better describe how the wider construction industry is performing
• Understand the need for further research into the value generated by construction and the built environment
• Ensuring that the Construction Sector is able to attract, recruit and retain the skilled workforce it needs both now and in the future

• Moving forward amidst unprecedented challenges and restrictions to the way we are able to work.
• What changes may be brought to the industry including digitisation and the impact on how we design, build and maintain buildings in the future.

Taking the right steps to protect construction workers’ health

• Ensuring that BEIS' policies help improve the performance of the construction sector
• Ensuring that the UK remains a world leader in the development and application of digital technologies to the built environment
• Understanding the benefits of digitisation including more efficient transport systems, more energy-efficient buildings, lower waste and carbon emissions, and most importantly homes and other buildings that are safe and promote wellbeing for the people who live and work in them
• Enabling the UK to achieve its net-zero carbon target by 2050 through the digitisation of the built environment

• Insurance market cycle - how did we get here and where to next?
• Project cover trends – key considerations on how to protect your project through risk transfer
• Navigating the broker and insurer market – tips on how to gain the best results for your project and when using new technology

• Supporting the construction industry in understanding the potential savings and productivity benefits of digitalisation
• Embedding digital practice across businesses, especially for smaller firms
• Digitalisation and immersive learning
• Applying modern methods of construction

• Supporting sustainable growth
• Delivering real sustainable development, improving people’s lives and effectively tackling the emergencies of climate change, air pollution and obesity
• Ensuring that sustainable transport is integral to design at each level – community, street, home
• Increasing the capability and capacity of professionals

• Understanding the process of digitising assets and the increasing importance of data curation and sharing
• Integrating BIM into project delivery
• Using the capability as a foundation for shaping a digital and technology-led approach within the asset management business
• Driving forward improvements to the availability and access of data internally and externally
• Recognising how a data-centric approach is key to transforming asset management delivery