Building Safety Summit: Building Together for a Safer & Sustainable Future

Andrew Moore

Head of Operations for Building Control at the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) within the Health & Safety Executive (HSE)

With over 20 years of experience with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Andrew has worked on the frontline to improve health and safety standards across various sectors, including agriculture, public services, manufacturing, waste and recycling, and construction. Andrew has led numerous campaigns to promote health and safety, and has been involved in many high-profile prosecutions, holding accountable those who failed to meet health and safety standards, resulting in risks, injuries or ill health. In addition to the frontline work, Andrew has acted as an HSE intelligent customer for HSE research, and has taken the UK lead on chemical policy, including the REACH and CLP regulations. In 2020, Andrew joined the Building Safety Regulator programme as the Industry Competence Lead and currently serves as the Head of Operations for the regulation of High-Rise Buildings (Gateway 1,2,3). 

VARUN SONI

Partner at calfordseaden, Technical Contributor FSB 1/1/1 (BS 8644) and Member of the Building Regulations Advisory Committee (BRAC) Golden Thread Working Group

Varun is Partner and heads up the BIM and Digital team at calfordseaden. He boasts over 10 years’ experience in the industry and has been at calfordseaden since 2017.

Throughout Varun’s academic and professional career, he has built a solid grounding in architecture, design, construction, and the implementation and use of BIM for design and construction projects. Varun is proactive in advocating Better Information Management across the industry. He contributes to sector-leading networks such as nima, BIM4HAs (BIM for Housing Associations), BIM4Housing, BRAC, Golden Thread Working Group and BS 8644-1 Authoring Team.

Varun strongly advocates new digitalised methods of working, to enable more digitalised areas of our industry, including an integration of AR and AI into BIM, more standardised delivery of information, and also an opportunity to bring greater value engineering to construction and asset lifecycle management through the use of better information management.

MANDEEP SINGH GILL

Associate BIM Manager (Digital Golden Thread), Hydrock, now Stantec

With nearly a decade of experience on projects of different scales and sizes, Mandeep has been an active member of BIM4Water, and is a current member of the Nima 'interest group' BIM4Housing.

Mandeep has become a subject matter expert and is leading the way for Hydrock, now Stantec, in shaping their digital safety team's processes and protocols for delivery. Responsible for advising on Building Safety Act implications and general Information Management, Mandeep can offer expert advice on the UK BIM Framework in association with principles of the Digital Golden Thread.

STEVE RUDGE

Head of Technical and Delivery, Symetri

Having previously worked for Morgan Sindall, Steve has been in a multi-disciplined design and build environment for 24 years. He has a vast knowledge of the problems that can be encountered on projects of all sizes and provides suitable solutions. Steve’s primary expertise lies in the design, construction and management workflow of information and technology requirements to ensure a project meets the full requirements and data is reused through the delivery. Steve acts as the Project BIM manager and information manager for our clients and helps them de-risk and deliver the project to meet the full defined requirements.

RICHARD BRAYSHAW

Construction Business Area Director, Symetri

Richard challenges all those involved in the construction process to work smarter. Working as a Business Area Director for the Symetri Construction team, he aims to deliver world-class technology solutions and services which increase the capability and capacity of all those involved in construction.