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Seminars
Seminars
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Social and environmental value in
development
S4 - Life Science
Birmingham Office Market
Chair: Anna Strongman, CEO, Oxford University
Development
Chair: Scott Rutherford, Partner, Cushman & Wakefield
Retrofit v’s Redevelopment: The New
Dilemma in Achieving Net Zero
Chair: Guy Battle, CEO, Social Value Portal
Kate Nottidge, Director, Social Impact,
Grosvenor Property UK
Deborah Saunt, Founding Director, DSDHA
Sadie Louise Thomson-Ashworth, Socioeconomic
Development Manager, Lendlease
Investing in communities and understanding the
needs of local businesses is key to creating lasting
social value. But how should developers respond to
the priorities of communities to ensure value
actually meets needs? Whether through access to
employment opportunities, supporting local
businesses, helping communities to thrive or
regenerating our environment, the importance of
social value in development has never been greater
- how can we create a lasting social and economic
impact on every project undertaken?
This panel will explore how social and environmental
value should be embedded into the full lifecycle of a
development from community engagement and
co-design, through to design implementation and
finally to occupation including how we can maximise
community wellbeing through social leases. Does
social value add value or is it just an additional
burden?
Colin Brown, Development Director, Mission Street
Seb Denby, Partner, CreativePlaces
Charles Toogood, Principal & Managing Director, National
Offices and Lease Advisory Team, Avison Young
Chris Walters, Head of UK Life Science, JLL
Tim Webb, Senior Development Manager, Kier Property
In 2021 BCO produced the paper, ‘Who is the Life
Science Occupier?’. The key findings of this research
was that the following are essential elements in the
provision of science space: Understanding the
science ecosystem. The science occupier – who
they are, how they are structured and how they are
funded. The need to be close to key collaborators
and having a thriving science ecosystem are key to
meeting the functional needs of life sciences
organisations. The need to invest in the social/
interactive potential between companies and
neighbours to create an ecosystem, along with an
operational readiness plan with the occupiers at the
outset, as this will inform the investment funding
metrics and the brief. Back of house operational
needs in the space planning, flow and development
appraisal in order to inform rental and service
charge parameters. Creation space that is
adaptable, flexible and agile so that it can meet
other potential occupiers’ operational strategy
needs. Laboratories tend to be energy intensive and
have specific technical requirements that can
constrain design options. Sustainability aspirations
and the technical requirements should be
considered at the outset to ensure alignment
between the landlord and occupier.
The panel will explore the report’s findings and
debate what is anything has changed, along with
how the BCO best advance its leading role in life
science.
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Rob Groves, Co-Head of Development, MEPC
Nick Woodward, Executive Director, CBRE,
Investment Properties
The office market has been through a seismic shift
following the pandemic, but through any crisis the
strongest and most adaptable will survive and
ultimately thrive. This session will explore; occupier
trends, design, market dynamics and financing to
see how the city and its decision influencers are
planning to succeed through the Cities subsequent
property cycles.
Join our marketing leading panel for a
thought-provoking discussion on how
Birmingham’s office sector will drive the City
forward over the next decade and beyond,
retaining and underlining its second City status.
Chair: Katy Lightbody, Senior Director, Heritage &
Townscape, Turley
Alex Edwards, Sustainability Director, Bruntwood
Anna Hollyman, Senior Sustainability Advisor, UK Green
Building Council
Steve Toon, Design Director, Akt II
Richmal Wigglesworth, Associate Partner,
Sheppard Robson
Around 40% of the UK’s carbon emissions are
linked in some way to the built environment. It is
estimated that 80% of buildings that exist today,
will still stand in 2050, therefore to achieve net zero
we need to significantly reduce energy
consumption and decarbonise existing building
stock - commercial and domestic. Given the
increasing appreciation of embodied carbon, and
that these emissions are making up a growing
proportion of the lifecycle emissions of a building,
many projects face a retrofit vs new build dilemma.
Alongside this, we are seeing a changing sense of
what is valued in our built environment, and
buildings are increasingly being recognised for their
‘value’ in the broadest sense of the word.
As we saw with the M&S case, there is an increasing
tension between these objectives, and for those
managing buildings this makes the decision about
whether to demolish or refurb buildings particularly
complex. The panel will explore these complexities
in detail and bring insights and best practice
experience to inform the discussion.
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