PRECAST2016: Programme Announced

12 Feb 2016

08.30

Registration & Exhibition Opens

Tea, Coffee & Breakfast Rolls Served

09.00 - 09.45

HS2 – Requirements of the Precast Industry & Opportunities

Andrew Slinn, Procurement Lead, High Speed 2

9.30

Safe Loading, Wincanton - Outside Demonstration

Safe Use of Prefabricated Towers, Mentor Training - Outside Demonstration

10.00 – 10.50

Technical Seminars: From Associates

J&P Building Systems, Peikko UK, Yara UK

10.15 – 10.45

Economic Outlook

Jerry McLaughlin – Chief Economist, Mineral Products Association

10.45 – 11.15

Refreshments

11.15

Safe Loading, Wincanton - Outside Demonstration

Safe Use of Prefabricated Towers, Mentor Training - Outside Demonstration

11.15 – 11.45

How Contractors are Embedding Sustainabiliy into Procurement

Steve Cook, Willmott Dixon & Member of Build UK

11.45 – 12.30

Building Information Modelling (BIM), Precast and the road to Level 2: Including British Precast Activity for Members

Duncan Reed – Director, Trimble Solutions (UK)

12.00 – 12.30

New Sentencing Guidelines for H&S Prosecutions

Marta Tomlinson, Kennedys Law

12.30

Lunch

13.00 – 13.45

Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Executive Director Report

Keynote address from Paul Billinger, HSE

14.00 – 14.30

Risk Reduction & Acoustic Performance for Housing

John Tebbit – CEO, Robust Details

14.00

Safe Loading, Wincanton - Outside Demonstration

Safe Use of Prefabricated Towers, Mentor Training - Outside Demonstration

14.15 – 15.00

Reclassification of Respirable Crystalline Silica: Impacts for Precasters 

Andy Price - Strategic Health and Safety Manager, Sibelco/Europe & President, Silica & Moulding Sands Association

15.00 – 16.00

Speed Networking

16.00

Exhibition Close