Now open for booking!
Our lunchtime webinars for autumn 2024 are now open for booking, with each scheduled to take place from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm on the dates shown. These webinars are free for all CAB members! Just click on the relevant button below to book your free place and to receive joining instructions. There will be time for Q&A at the end of each session. With bid management and indoor air quality just two of the topics, we hope there is something here to get your teeth into and we look forward to you joining us online!
10 October 2024 – Bid management process
This webinar will explore suitable bid management processes to ensure we design and build what was specified. Anyone involved in the bidding process should attend. How should we identify value engineering opportunities while ensuring their inclusion in the final design and their compliance? This is particularly important given our renewed focus on building safety.
It is critical that bids are fully reviewed by the sales team, to make sure they are both technically and scope compliant. How can this be achieved? How best can all quality control processes be followed, in compliance with ISO 9001 certification where relevant?
We will look at the bid management process to deliver bids that are on brief, on time and on budget.
Guest speaker:
Rahzeb Chowdhury, Competitive Advantage
Rahzeb Chowdhury is a Director of Competitive Advantage and Executive Director at Misca Advisors. With over 35 years of experience, he has directed infrastructure and economic development projects, with the aim of improving public service outcomes. Previously, Rahzeb held senior roles in the UK practices of EY, KPMG and Atos, advising governments at Cabinet-level as well implementing engagements at the operational-level on public-private partnerships (PPPs), commercial restructuring, and private sector-led growth. In markets across Asia, he has secured more than $3 billion in infrastructure sector investments, including in urban growth strategies, transport, water supply and energy. Rahzeb has delivered projects globally, spanning numerous markets in South America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa as well as in South and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, with a deep understanding of the bidding and subsequent project management processes.
15 October 2024 – VOC emissions from products and materials:
Regulations, Standard methods and How to comply
The release of chemicals from products and materials has been the subject of various mandatory regulations and ‘green codes’ for many years. The Construction Product Regulation (CPR), REACH and various National building codes call for stipulation of emitted compounds, increasing the need for chemical emissions testing as part of product labelling.
The expanding list of target compounds has continued to grow and lack of clarity about the UK’s position on the EC mandate creates additional challenges. This has led to a need for clear advice for manufacturers, researchers and test laboratories alike. During this webinar we will discuss the status of regulations and associated standard methods effecting suppliers of construction and similarly regulated products, how to carry out sampling and analysis in accordance with current and impending standard methods, as well as introduce some innovative techniques for developing new, low emitting products.
Guest speaker:
Caroline Widdowson, Markes International
Caroline Widdowson is a specialist in the sampling and analysis of trace-level volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in solids, liquids, and gases. She holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and an MBA. Caroline is currently the Head of Market Development at Markes International, an advanced analytical instrument manufacturer with expertise in industrial and environmental monitoring, defence and forensics, chemical emissions from products and materials and chemical ecology.
Caroline is the current Chair of the UK’s national standardisation body (BSI) committee on Indoor Air Quality. She also works on the ISO, ASTM and CEN committees on Air Quality and Chemical Emissions from Materials. Other areas of expertise include Monitoring of impurities in Hydrogen Fuel, Volatiles in the Semiconductor industry, Product Conformity and Vehicle Interior Air Quality.
Markes International is a global manufacturer and supplier of specialist analytical instrumentation, accessories, supplies and consumables that enhances the sensitivity and application scope of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC–MS).
22 October 2024 – UK REACH regulations & the future landscape
This presentation will introduce the basics of UK REACH including defining who needs to complete registrations and what substances need registering. There will be an overview of supply chain models and the obligations on the different actors within those supply chains. Details will be given on DEFRA’s proposed Alternative Transitional Registration model for UK REACH and what this will mean for completing registrations. There will be details on the changes to the data and information requirements needed for a registration, and the potential impact on business of these changes both at the point of submitted a registration and following the review of that registration by the HSE.
Guest speaker:
Mick Goodwin, WSP Mick Goodwin is a Technical Director – Chemical Regulatory Compliance – at WSP. Mick is an expert in EU and UK chemical regulations, including REACH and CLP, he leads WSP’s REACH and Product Stewardship team. Mick joined WSP in 2021 after 14 years working in the colour chemicals industry in a variety of compliance / regulatory affairs / product stewardship roles. He has direct experience completing REACH Registrations as Lead Registrant and managing all related joint submission financial and legal activities. He has experience auditing supply chains to ensure product compliance for downstream users across territorial jurisdictions. Mick worked in industries supplying highly regulated sectors including the food, automotive and aerospace. He has experience evaluating product compliance against global legislative requirements such as REACH Restriction, Authorisation and SVHC lists, and industry standards and best practice lists such as GADSL, Nestlé and IKEA.
The following webinars are to be confirmed shortly:
5 November 2024 – Acoustics, ventilation & overheating – getting the right balance
Guest speaker:
Jack Harvie-Clark & Nick Conlan, Apex Acoustics
TBC November 2024 – PAS 24 & Secured by Design
Guest speaker:
Jon Cole, Police Crime Prevention Initiatives