CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
07.10.2026 NCC, BIRMINGHAM
INFORMING, INSPIRING AND SHOWCASING BEST PRACTICE TIMBER TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION 08:30
Registration, Exhibition Viewing and Networking
09:30
Introduction from Conference Chair
Darren Richards - Cogent Consulting Setting the agenda - programme overview & housekeeping
13:35
James Curtis - Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure, Lien Geens - MCW Architects & Conor O’Neill - Smith and Wallwork Delivering education projects as a true project team
14:00
Joshua Goodwin - B&K Hybrid Solutions & Matt Caldwell - Buro Happold Stowe School: Designing the Future of Technology & Engineering Education
SESSION 1: Sustainability & Commercial Sector 09:40
Sustainability Keynote: Paul King -
14:20
Joshua Lockey - Mint Construction Timber in infrastructure: hybrid systems, stations and buildability
09:50
Kirsten Haggart - Waugh Thistleton Designing the next generation of commercial timber buildings
14:35
Q&A
14:40
Refreshment Break, Exhibition Viewing and Networking
10:10
10:25
Built by Nature Why timber must move from niche to mainstream
Adrian Campbell - ChangeBuilding Using Wood Well: durability, value and whole-life performance Melissa Cicin-Sain - Webb Yates, Mike Tonkin - Tonkin Liu, Robin Nicholson - Buckland Timber York Minster Centre of Excellence: heritage, light and civic presence
SESSION 3: Residential Sector 15:10
Andrew Orriss - Structural Timber Association Timber industry update: Status & Trends
15:25
Hannah Dixon - Progress in Practice & Sam Bailey - Bailey Projects New housing models: automated delivery meets Passivhaus craft
10:50
Q&A
10:55
Refreshment Break, Exhibition Viewing and Networking
15:45
11:25
Sam Gills - Bennetts Associates / Manchester Metropolitan University & a representative from Timber Workshop Robotics Living Lab Pavilion: designing with fabrication in mind
Rob Wheaton - Stride Treglown Zero-carbon housing at scale: pattern books, practice and structural delivery
16:00
James Turner - Mikhail Riches Duncombe Square: Delivering Zero Carbon Homes in Practice
16:20
Q&A
16:25
Panel Debate: Housing Automation
16:55
Chairmans Event Summary
17:00
Conference End
18:00
ST AWARDS DRINKS RECEPTION
11:45
Charlie Butterwick - Architecture Unknown Community-led civic timber: from Peel Park to Little Hulton
12:00
Andy Heyne - Heyne Tillett Steel Xylo: The UK’s Largest All-Timber Office
12:15
Q&A
12:20
Lunch, Exhibition Viewing and Networking
SESSION 2: Education and Infrastructure Case Studies 13:20
Oliver Novakovic - Barratt Redrow/Oregon Paul Bilbie - Bellway Homes Matthew Bass - Vistry Jon Lane - Taylor Lane Timber Frame Nick Wright - Taylor Wimpey
Paul Inch - OSKOP / Strata Consulting Standardising school delivery with timber and kit-of-parts thinking
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