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Strategies for Innovation (Presentations & Panel)

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Event
  • Session
  • Wednesday, 26 October 2016
  • 12:26 - 12:26
  • Duration: 32 mins
  • Publication date: 22 Nov 2016
  • Location: NA, Business Design Centre, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Digital Construction Week

About the session

Innovation and collaboration are two words you’ll fail to escape no matter what line of work you’re in. But what do they mean in reality, how do you measure their value, and how can you engage your workforce and supply chain to join you on your journey.

Hear from some of the most innovative firms in our industry and get a glimpse of the strategies they’ve deployed and what they’ve achieved.

Keywords:
  • BIM
  • I3P
  • civil engineering
  • construction
  • crossrail
  • digital
  • innovation
  • metro railway
  • train
  • transport industry
  • tunnelling

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  • John Pelton

    John Pelton

    Crossrail, Head of Strategic Projects

    John is currently the Strategic Projects Director for Crossrail and Director of the Programme Partner Transcend, a JV between CH2M, AECOM and Nichols. As such he is the lead for the innovation programme, specific complex projects and heading up the programme partner JV.Previously he led the High Speed 2 Efficiency Challenge Programme team, a multidisciplinary team seeking significant savings for the project. The focus was on collaborative working, applying Building Information Modelling, off-site manufacture and optimised design guides and standards. The team identified more than £1b of potential savings from the Phase 1 programme.Prior to that he led the CH2M UK Government Infrastructure team, primarily focussing on Defence, but he was also active in urban regeneration and economic growth within the UK and in looking at disaster relief and post conflict reconstruction/development.John spent the first 29 years of his career serving as a Royal Engineer officer. He fought during the first Gulf War, deployed to the Balkans during the 1990s and latterly to Afghanistan and Iraq. He has supported the RAF, trained junior soldiers, built motorways in Australia and completed construction projects in Kenya. He has also been a strategic planner for the Army, both for operations and in the personnel area, and has led a procurement team providing infrastructure for deployed troops before finally leading the development of an infrastructure programme for the Army’s UK bases and helping to design the nascent Defence Infrastructure Organisation.
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    Andy Radley

    Kier Construction, Group BIM Director

  • Jason McFadden

    Jason McFadden

    Barton Malow, Project Director

    As Project Director at Barton MalowCompany, a leading North American construction services firm, Jason McFadden leads technology-enabled project controls through training and implementation, and is a vital asset to the company’s BIM and technology efforts. He leads Barton Malow’sSoutheast Region sports & entertainment work portfolio and provides overall support for system-level VDC-enabled workforce implementation. Jason’s innovative approach to BIM-enabled project management has achieved high levels of customer satisfaction, accolades and industry recognition. In 2011, Jason was honored by publication Engineering News-Record as a Southeast Top 20 under 40 construction professional. He’s been a featured presenter at numerous industry events on the use of technology and jobsite efficiency including AGC BIMForum, Bluebeam eXtremeConference and Trimble Dimensions.
  • Elizabeth  Kavanagh

    Elizabeth Kavanagh

    Stride Treglown, Head of Research and Innovation

    Elizabeth is Head of HR and Research & Innovation at Stride Treglown, one of the UK’s top architectural practices.Elizabeth has founded Behaviours4Collaboration which is a partner to the BIM task force and focussed in the development of a culture of collaboration in construction. For further information please follow our LinkedIn group Behaviours4Collaboration.She has significant knowledge in Building Information Modelling and co-founded the South West BIM region in collaboration with the University of the West of England. For further information please follow our LinkedIn group SW BIM Region.An experienced strengths-based and career coach and university lecturer she also enjoys working with charities including her current role as Non-Exec Director of Oasis Talk.
  • Mark Van Lin Den

    Mark Van Lin Den

    Dropbox, Country Manager UK & Ireland

    Mark van der Linden is the country manager for Dropbox UK/I, and is responsible for driving Dropbox’s growth in those regions. He leads the London office’s day-to-day operations, overseeing sales, marketing, and partnerships. He previously worked at Google, where he led Google Enterprise in the UK/I and Benelux, and also spent several years at Dell and VMWare.
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