SPACES Study Day – Podcast with CIPFA

SPACES Study Day podcast 2022

Podcast – Mark Poppy, CIPFA talks to Alex Gee

As part of our ongoing programme of events around the Study Day, Mark Poppy, the Property Training Manager for the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy talked to Alex Gee, Norse Consulting. 

With experience in both the public and private sectors, Mark has extensive experience in local government from managing front line services and rising through the ranks to be a Strategic Director, leading on a range of innovative projects.

Throughout his career, Mark has specialised in delivering efficiency through transformation and he has been the lead for a national efficiency programme focussing on new and alternative models of public sector delivery. He has a track record of developing new partnerships, introducing modular housing, and ensuring that property portfolios support organisational strategic direction. He describes his approach to projects as “being commercially minded and community orientated”. He holds an MBA from the University of Hertfordshire and is a graduate of the Ashridge Business School’s Advanced Leadership Programme. He was awarded a bursary from the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives for an innovative paper on partnering with the private sector which involved a visit to the US, of which I’m sure he off-set the emissions .

His interest in net zero arises from his experience as a self-builder and his work at CIPFA on developing the content for the Diploma in Strategic Asset Management in the Public Sector.
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Webinar: EnergiRaven – Building Carbon Management Tool, 1pm Thurs 8 September

Webinar: EnergiRaven – Building Carbon Management Tool

1:00pm Thursday 8 September

Hosted by Steve Rufus, Vice-President and Head of Profession, Engineering, SPACES, Lars Fabricius and Jonathon Hunter-Hill, SAV Systems will be presenting on EnergiRaven – Building Carbon Management Tool.

Agenda:

  • Understand the requirements of the Be Seen criteria in the context of our Net Zero journeys
  • Introduction to the Danish carbon management tool, EnergiRaven
  • Be Lean – use less energy. How such tools can help building operators achieve it
  • Be Clean – energy efficiency. How can the tools diagnose problems with building energy efficiency
  • Common symptoms of poorly managed heating systems
  • Building feedback loops
  • Be Green – choosing energy sources
  • Be Seen – energy management. How the above can help you achieve success in managed your building portfolios
  • Case stories and implementation

Lars Fabricius is the Managing Director of SAV Systems. Originally Danish, he grew up in and now lives in the UK. He has been working within the green energy sector for almost 30 years, leading SAV Systems. Lars has drawn upon the Danish experience of energy savings and energy efficiency, which were forced upon Denmark as a result of the 1970s oil crisis. Lars has played an important part in introducing heat networks to the UK.

Jonathon Hunter Hill: Sector Manager – Education is a passionate advocate for MVHR, Jonathon is the Product Manager for AirMaster decentralized MVHR and Energi Raven, with a wider emphasis on improving energy efficiency in schools to meet our Net Zero goals. Jonathon has worked with many local authorities over the years. With an existing relationship to The City of Edinburgh Council, in April 2021, he secured Passivhaus Component Certification for one of AirMaster’s MVHR units. Following university, Jonathon joined SAV Systems and has worked there for the past 9 years.

See here for more information and to register. 

This webinar is hosted on webinarjam and you must register to attend.  For further information on the above and other webinars see our Calendar

SPACES AGM: Calling Notice – Thursday 20th October 2022 1-2pm

It is a requirement of the SPACES By-Laws that an Annual General Meeting (AGM) is held each year.

This year the AGM will be held online on Thursday 20th October 2022 from 1pm to 2pm (NB The AGM should not last longer than 30 minutes). You can download a copy of the agenda and last year’s minutes.

All members who are registered members on 2nd September 2022 and at the AGM can attend, with private or public members entitled to vote.

If you wish to attend or send your apologies, please register on the SPACES website. NB Registration will close at midday on Wednesday 19th October 2022, to allow time to send the joining instructions out.

The following positions are available:

  • Director of Finance – Andrew Rowe has agreed to restand
  • Advisor: Marketing and Communication (2 year term) – Position Vacant – Nominations requested and will be voted for during the AGM
  • Advisor: Membership (2 year term) – Position Vacant – Nominations requested and will be voted for during the AGM
  • Head of Profession – Architecture (3 year term) – Nominations requested and this will be ratified at the AGM
  • Head of Profession – Engineering (3 year term) – Nominations requested and this will be ratified at the AGM
  • Head of Profession – Project Management (3 year term) – Nominations requested and this will be ratified at the AGM
  • Head of Profession – Project Management (3 yar term) – Position Vacant – Nominations requested and this will be ratified at the AGM

SPACES are always looking for members to join the board, if you are interested in the roles above or feel there is another way you can be involved, please email Jackie Lowe and Steve Rufus in the first instance.

They will not be running a technical webinar. We have had a number of events over the last few years with many recordings on our YouTube Channel. For more information about SPACES events and activities, please see the events calendar or look at the e-newsletter which is circulated monthly. If you do not receive information on events and activities via the SPACES e-newsletter and would like to please log into your account and change your marketing options.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Fiona. NB Fiona is on annual leave from Friday 26th August to Monday 5th September, please Jackie Lowe, President or Andrew Rowe, Finance Director if urgent.

SPACES Presidents’ dinner, Awards and Yearbook

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Presidents’ Dinner and Awards 2022

Steve Rufus, incoming President and Jackie Lowe, outgoing President of SPACES warmly invite you to the Presidents’ Dinner and Awards, incorporating the Civic Building of the Year on Thursday 3rd November 2022 at the Pentahotel, Oxford Road, Reading, RG1 7RH.

The evening commences at 7:00pm with a pre-dinner drinks reception, with a three course dinner at 7.30pm. Following dinner the winners of the SPACES Awards 2022, including the Civic Building of the Year, will be announced and the 2022 SPACES Yearbook will be unveiled.

The dress code is formal (optional). So it means that Black Tie doesn’t have to be worn (many people use it as an excuse to dress up).

During the evening there will be a raffle in support of the Presidents’ Charity.

Ticket prices are

£90 +VAT – members
£120 +VAT – non members

For more information and to book your tickets please see our website. NB Tickets are available up to 17th October 2022


Yearbook

Following national submissions for projects which have received an element of public funding a yearbook is produced with the best of UK Construction Projects. The yearbook is circulated to every Local Authority, Local Authority Property and Education Departments, SPACES members as well as other Public Sector Organisations.

Our yearbook offers a great opportunity for your company to show its involvement in UK Public Sector Construction by advertising.

Advertising costs are:

  • £460 +VAT per quarter page advert, including hyperlink to your company’s website.
  • £800 +VAT per half a page advert, including hyperlink to your company’s website.
  • £1,150 +VAT per full page advert, including hyperlink to your company’s website.
  • £150 +VAT we can add hyperlink from your project’s page your to project website, case study or video.
  • £1200 +VAT we can include a one page article in the yearbook.

You can download the advert specification here. To book your advert etc, please see our website, the deadline is 16th September 2022, with the final deadline for SPACES to receive your advert 23rd September 2022. 

If you wish to also attend the Presidents’ Dinner and Awards we have the following options. Please book on our website.

  • 4 places at Dinner and Awards Ceremony + Quarter Page advert – £780 +VAT (members) or £900 +VAT (non-members)
  • 8 places at Dinner and Awards Ceremony + Half Page advert – £1480 (members) or £1700 +VAT (non-members)

Support

Sponsor an Award

Show your support to Public Sector Construction by sponsoring an award at this years’ Presidents’ Dinner and Awards . Based upon submissions to the annual yearbook, a short list is made of those projects that are eligible to enter the SPACES Awards (incorporating the Civic Building of the Year Awards). A shortlist of projects for the awards can be found here.

You can sponsor an award for:
£1000 +VAT – Civic Building of the Year
£750 +VAT – other category of awards (eg Education, Heritage)

Sponsoring an award gives you two places at the Presidents’ Dinner and a mention in our yearbook. For more information and to discuss, please email Andrew Rowe, Finance Director.

SPACES Schools and Ventilation Webinar

Net Zero 20th July webinar
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It’s not over – ongoing webinars

Schools and Ventilation

1:00pm on Wednesday 20th July 2022
As part of our ongoing series of webinars related to our Study Day, Net Zero Carbon – Building Resilience Hershil Patel, DfE and Henry Burridge, Imperial College will be presenting on Schools and Ventilation. This session will be hosted by Steve Rufus, Vice-President and Head of Profession, Engineering, of SPACES.

Hershil Patel, is an Engineer and Head of Energy at the Department for Education. His role is to address the climate change in the educational estates through reducing actual carbon emission in the educational estate and assessing the long term impact of climate change in the estate.

Henry Burridge is a Senior Lecturer in the Fluid Mechanics section in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Henry co-leads the Low-Energy Ventilation Network which was funded by the EPSRC via the UK Fluids Network as a Special Interest Group, is a Co-Investigator for the Tackling Air Pollution At Schools (TAPAS) network and the Future Urban Ventilation Network (FUVN): the Breathing City (both funded under the NERC funded SPF Clean Air Programme). In response to the pandemic, he was ventilation lead within Task 7 of the Royal Society’s ‘Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP)’ and is the ventilation lead for the COVID-19 National Core Studies (NCS) programme PROTECT funded by the HSE to manage transmission in workplaces.

He is a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC funded project CO-TRACE investigating COVID-19 transmission in schools and he led the formation of CoSchools in order to ensure long-term benefits for staff and pupils from investments driven by the desire to reduce COVID transmission in schools. Henry is joint Principal-Investigator of the Department for Education’s pilot project investigating the ‘Changes In the Ventilation Of Schools when monitoring CO2 (CIVOS-CO2)’ which has received funding from the Department of Health and Social Care.

Henry is Principal-Investigator of the SAMHE (Sammy) ‘School Air quality Monitoring for Health and Education’ project which seeks to establish air quality monitoring in around 2,000 UK schools via teacher and pupil engagement. He was an invited author on the SAGE EMG paper ‘Role of ventilation in controlling SARS-CoV-2 transmission’ and the SAGE EMG & SPI-B paper ‘Application of CO2 monitoring as an approach to managing ventilation to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 transmission’.

The webinar is hosted on webinarjam and you must register to attend event here. For further information see our Calendar

Don’t forget, please help us to plan future events by completing the feedback survey about the study day. 

As part of the study day we a virtual delegate pack, which contains information about the day, slides (where permitted), summer/autumn programme of webinars and other information. NB This will be updated. Videos will be made available on YouTube during August. 

Once again thank you to our sponsors  AtkinsBauder RoofingFaithful+GouldNorse ConsultingPick Everard and Willmott Dixon

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