National Housing Maintenance Forum

Setting the standards for repairs and maintenance

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Tuesday 25 January 2011

10.00

Plenary 1

Opening Plenary

James Tickell
Director (Campbell Tickell)

11.30

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Asbestos compliance – essential to get it right

Julian Ransom
Associate (Ridge Property & Construction Consultants)

Advanced retrofit in practice

Peter Evans
Director of Technical Services (The Radian Group)

Paul Ciniglio
Sustainability & Innovation Manager (The Radian Group)

Andrew Godwin
Head of Radian Services (The Radian Group)

Procurement options – what works best?

Mathew Baxter
Managing Director (echelon Consultancy)

Empty homes: a quick turnaround

Neville Tomblin
Technical Services Manager (Southern HG)

Chris Blackbeard
Senior Consultant (M3 Consultancy)

Decent Homes

Michael Clegg
Head of Existing Stock (HCA)

12.30

Plenary 2

Fire Safety

Kevin Manning
Head of Asset Management (Wolverhampton Homes)

Chris Mayfield
Senior Fire Safety Engineer (BRE)

14.00

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Retrofitting social housing for deep carbon cuts

Ian Meikle
Head of Low Impact Buildings (Technology Strategy Board)

Communication; the key to going green whilst staying lean

Andrew Semple
Managing Consultant (Housing Plus Group)

Ralph Middlemore
Director of Property Services (Housing Plus Group)

Developing your maintenance service or considering a DLO?

Nick Joslyn
Managing Director (4i Solutions)

Steve Welch
Director (4i Solutions)

Is every repair an emergency?

Peter Hatch
Group Operations Director (Housing Solutions Group)

John Barnes
Head of Asset Management (Housing Solutions Group)

Procurement Efficiencies – Lets go shopping together

Mark Robinson
Senior Associate (Trowers & Hamlins)

John Fisher
Partner (Ark Housing Consultancy LLP)

Richard Grounds
Commercial Director (Festival HG)

NHF Schedule of Rates contract documents- updated for the 21st century moo

David Miller
Director (M3)

Andrew Millross
Partner (Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP)

15.30

Plenary 3

No hard or fast rules: the rise of the self-regulation era

Mike Turner
Development Director (Ian Williams Ltd)

Wednesday 26 January 2011

9.30

Plenary 4

No safety net: managing assets in the new environment

John Kiely
Director (Savills)

Mervyn Jones
Director (Savills)

10.15

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Gas safety policy and practice

Mark Seaborn
Managing Director (Pennington Choices)

The Building Research HG and BRE ‘Victorian Terrace’ Refurbishment

James Honour
Senior Consultant (BRE)

NHF Schedule of Rates contract documents- updated for the 21st century

Andrew Millross
Partner (Anthony Collins Solicitors LLP)

David Miller
Director (M3)

DLO performance; profit or service – changing board opinions

Nick Wood
Director (M3 Consultancy)

David Poat
Head of Responsive Repairs (Raven HT)

Grounds Maintenance: new opportunities and innovative approaches

Graham Parry
Director Youth, Employment & Skills (Groundwork London)

Nicola Durrant
Neighbourhoods Green Project Co-ordinator (National Housing Federation)

Liz Somner
Green Spaces Manager (Helena Partnerships)

11.45

Plenary 5

Low Carbon Retrofit: getting the specification right

Peter Rickaby
Director (Rickaby Thompson Associates)

12.30

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Electrical regulations and microgeneration

David Cowburn
Managing Director (NAPIT)

Delivering greener, more energy efficient social homes in an affordable way

Alan Long
Executive Director (Mears Group)

Stuart Margerrison
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Integration (British Gas Community Energy)

Establishing and achieving true target costs

Tony Bryan
Managing Director (Value Based Solutions)

Getting the most out of your IT

Jacqui Stoggall
Principal Consultant Housing and Public Sector (Sovereign Business Integration plc)

Component Accounting – what is it and how does it impact Asset and Planned Maintenance Managers?

Joshua Warren
Managing Director (Keystone Asset Management)

Motorised scooters & lifts

Gavin Crawley
Associate (Elevate)

14.15

Plenary 6

Funding retrofit works

David Potter
Policy Lead (Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC))

Robert Rabinowitz
Director of Environmental Markets (BRE)