Christine Pasquire

Professor of Lean Project Management. Centre for Lean Projects at 

Nottingham Trent University

Christine Pasquire has a BSc Quantity Surveying, a PhD in Construction Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. One of the original four directors of LCI UK Ltd, Christine has been a long standing advocate, researcher and teacher of Lean Construction.

She is currently Professor of Lean Project Management in the Centre for Lean Projects at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Christine’s route to lean began 20 years ago with research into offsite manufacturing particularly in the Building Services sector and has grown to encompass the practicalities of lean implementation in both project and organisational transformation. Current research projects include applications of Takt and other forms of lean construction planning; measurement of the impact of Lean on human performance; investigations into waste that is institutionalised within the systems and structures of design and construction and developing pathways for common understanding as a flow.

She has published over 110 peer reviewed papers and completed in excess of £2,000,000 of funded research work in the field of construction management.

Nicole Preston

Head of Operational Excellence (A14)

Balfour Beatty, A14 Integrated Delivery Team

Nicole has worked as a Civil Engineer for Balfour Beatty for 10 years. She started as a Section Engineer in 2009 working her way up the Engineers grades, now achieving Head of Operational Excellence for Balfour Beatty Southern Regional Investment Programme. She is lucky enough to be managing Lean on the A14, the country’s largest infrastructure project, valued at £1.5b.

Since she arrived on the A14 project three years ago, she has led the continuous improvement culture, embedding the Operational Excellence Strategy, starting with rolling out a new ideas process, encouraging improved innovative ways of working, giving everyone the ability to add value and reduce costs for all parties involved. She then linked this into the Risk and Opportunity process, ensuring all good ideas/efficiencies have business cases and commercially assured by the client.

The aim of Nicole's Operational Excellence team on the A14 is to lower operational risk and lower operating costs, creating value for customers, supply chain and stakeholders, whilst beholding the highest safety and quality standards. Operational Excellence goes beyond the benefits model of improvement, towards a long-term change in organisation culture. By empowering the delivery team to identify a smarter way of working enables cost savings to be realised, and critical programme demands met or improved upon. Through a Lean methodology using Lean tools and techniques to enable bottlenecks to be identified, measured and mitigated. Nicole lead a team that focused on meeting customer expectation through continuous improvement of the operational delivery, mapping construction processes, finding the root cause for non-completion and error proofing repeated activity. It is described as doing the right thing, the right way, every time, reducing waste and increasing productivity.

Nicole has led the A14 project through ISO44001 accreditation, through strong project collaborative relationships, scoring industry high Collaborative Performance Framework (CPF) scores and hitting the Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). Proving they are world class and industry leading.

Robin Hendrich

Head of Business Solutions, Strategic Consulting

Jacobs

Robin is an experienced efficiency expert, LEAN practitioner and leader who brings innovative thinking and standardised production style operations management to complex projects and programmes. She also brings extensive transformation and change experience, leading teams and projects to high performance and operational excellence.
Her philosophy is that people want to do a good job, and that it is her job to listen, clear the way and provide them with the tools to do so. This drives the priorities of transparency and visual management as a tool for uncovering waste and process breakdowns and driving safe ways of working and being.
She has implemented Lean across sectors including buildings, highways, nuclear, aviation and advanced facilities as well as across geographies including the US, the UK and in Europe as well.

Chris Wearne FICE

Head of LEAN & Collaborative Planning

Jacobs

Chris Wearne, FICE, is a Chartered Civil Engineer who has been at the forefront of the effort to adapt LEAN techniques to infrastructure Projects. Prior to working in Lean he accumulated over 25 years Project Management experience in highways, heavy civils and waterways, in Construction, Design and Client roles. Since 2010 he has successfully introduced Lean techniques such as Process Improvement, Collaborative Planning and Choosing By Advantages into work for major clients such as Highways England, Environment Agency, United Utilities, Thames Tideway and the Qatar Government. He has developed several original applications of LEAN techniques to infrastructure and is recognised as a specialist trainer.

Brian Swain

Chairman

The Lean Construction Institute UK

Brian Swain is Chairman of The Lean Construction Institute UK, and an organisational development consultant with twenty five years’ experience working in construction, manufacturing and service companies throughout the UK and Western Europe.

He often typifies his approach as individual, organisational and corporate coaching.

Brian’s work is focused on the Lean Transformation of companies through team building and personal development within the context of process management, continuous improvement and organisational design. He works at all levels in large and small organisations but with a primary focus on Value Stream Development in regard to a company’s strategic and operational imperatives.

Additionally, Brian has project managed and co-authored textbooks and manuals for work-based management development. He is a founding Director of Rubicon Associates, Brian Swain Ltd, Lean Construction International and The Lean Construction Institute UK (LCI-UK).

Rob Sanger

Highways Division Lean Manager

BAM Nuttall

Rob has been a Lean Manager for BAM Nuttall for 5 years and
has developed a successful team of Lean practitioners supporting
Highways Schemes.
He has a passion for Lean and facilitates lean and collaborative
planning workshops, delivers lean training, co-ordinates HELMA
and SLCA assessments as well as site responsibilities for project
controls and Collaborative Performance Framework (CPF).
Prior to this role he had 24 years of engineering and project
management experience with BAM working in Highways, Rail,
Water, Coastal protection and for private developers.
This broad based site experience has given him a solid
foundation, understanding the challenges we face in construction
resulting in a very practical approach to implementing lean tools
and techniques on site.

Neal Symmons

Lean Technical Manager

Highways England

I am a highly experienced and disciplined Civil Engineer and Continuous Improvement leader, with a proven track record having worked on and led a variety of multi-million pound major schemes in the United Kingdom and the Middle East.

I have over 10 years’ experience in the deployment of Lean-Sigma in the construction industry gained working for both Contractors, Consultants and large government Clients. My knowledge base covers: Highways; Airfields and airports; Retail and Technology Park design; Residential Layout design; Restaurant and Hotel designs; Large scale agricultural developments; environmental engineering and waste management facilities. I am an accredited Black belt in Lean, Six Sigma and TRIZ with major litigation leadership and professional witness experience.

Paul Ebbs

Lean Coach

WSP

Paul is an advocate of integrating project teams and implementing lean through action-research to improve productivity. He has worked on a variety of infrastructure, decommissioning, healthcare, residential, bio-tech and educational projects as a tradesman, project manager, lean coach and researcher. Paul’s currently supporting WSP and external teams start and sustain their lean journeys. He is passionate about sharing current best practice and research in Lean Project Delivery around the globe and is co-author of ‘A Facilitator’s Guide to the Last Planner® System’, International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) conference papers, blogs and industry articles. Paul was chair of the 2019 IGLC annual conference in Ireland and is a steering committee member of Lean in Public Sector. He co-founded Lean Construction Ireland in 2014 and the Construction Innovation Lab in 2013.

Richard John

Technical Director

WSP

A Continuous Improvement Leader with over 15 years’ experience in Business Transformation, Change Delivery and Programme Management. A proven track record of successfully delivering and implementing complex transformation programmes within the engineering, communication, financial services and transportation sectors. Leading global dispersed teams of change agents to successful certification including Brazil, Poland, Asia Pacific region and the US. A highly accredited change professional including Certified Black Belt, Certified Master Black Belt, University of Warwick Accredited Green Belt trainer, ISO 18404 accredited Lean Practitioner and Robotics Process Automation Business Analysts

Dr. Peter Court

MEP Delivery Leader

Takt Consultancy

Peter is an MEP delivery leader and has an Engineering Doctorate in Lean Construction. With over 40 years in the Construction Industry, Peter has delivered a wide variety of projects across various sectors both in the UK and overseas, including Australia and the French speaking province of Quebec in Canada.

Peter is a professional and highly motivated engineer, project leader and lean construction practitioner (and consultant) with a track record of achievement across a portfolio of large, complex multi-discipline within the building, civil engineering and transportation sectors, and has led numerous Mechanical, Electrical and Public Health (MEP) projects from bid stage to successful handover.

Peter’s passion is to share and apply the knowledge he’s gained and contributed to lean principles and methodologies to the projects he delivers, to drive efficiencies in cost, labour and productivity, and to improve current health and safety performance, thus transforming the way we construct. As such, in 2017, Peter decided to build his own specialist consultancy business to widen the application of lean thinking into MEP project delivery.

Rob Andrewes

Lean Area Manager.

Highways England

Rob is an experienced Lean expert and has been working as a Lean Practitioner for 12 years. He has been working for Highways England for the past 6 years and, prior to that, worked for the Department of Work and Pensions.

Rob supports Lean projects and skills development both within Highways England and also in the Supply Chain, conducting a variety of Lean assessments, delivering Lean improvement projects and delivering a range of training events.

Over the years Rob has trained and coached a large number of staff in Lean continuous improvement techniques and is passionate about the impact Lean can have on an organisation’s people – giving them not just the power to change, but the power to see the change that is needed.

We are Royal BAM Group one of Europe’s largest contractors, established for more than 150 years. We deliver exceptional engineering, construction and investment services across private and public sector projects, in the UK and abroad. BAM Nuttall is one of 10 operating companies specialising in Civil Engineering in the UK. Our projects range from road, rail and airports, to marine, tunnelling, and energy schemes. We’re driven by a desire to make a difference to communities, the environment and people’s lives. Our goal is to build sustainable infrastructure that helps economic growth and allows us be kind to our planet – today and in the future.

At BAM, we do things differently, we’re a catalyst for change across the industry. We continually seek new ways to improve productivity, sustainability and safety. We understand the importance of Lean thinking and practice Lean, to increase value for the customer and support future sustainability of BAM. We’re unrelenting in our drive to eliminate waste – wasted time, effort and materials. Eliminating waste creates value for everything we do. Tasks taking less time, and teams getting it right first time, makes working at BAM safer, more enjoyable and fulfilling for our people. And customers learn about, and experience, delivering value, when working in partnership with BAM.

www.bamnuttall.co.uk

Galliford Try is a FTSE 250 business and one of the UK's leading housebuilding, regeneration and construction groups with revenues of £2.8billion.

We operate through three strong businesses: Linden Homes, Galliford Try Partnerships and Construction & Investments. We make an important contribution to meeting the demand for new homes in the private and affordable homes sectors, regenerating neighbourhoods and working to improve the UK’s built environment, delivering positive, lasting change for the communities we work in on behalf of our clients.

Our company is founded on our values of excellence, passion, integrity and collaboration, and our vision is to be leaders in the construction of a sustainable future.

Orbital Fasteners are the largest and marketing leading INDEPENDENT distributor of fixings, fasteners, hand and power tools, handrail systems, channel and bracketry and site consumables.

Strategically located just off Junction 17 or 18 of the M25, they offer guaranteed NEXT DAY delivery in to Central London and the neighbouring Home Counties on our their fleet of vehicles.

They deliver nationally on DPD or DX couriers and have a “CLICK AND COLLECT” service available from 7.00AM Monday – Friday from their Trade Counter in Watford.

With over 27,000 product lines, unmatchable customer service and a great sales team with excellent product knowledge and technical knowhow, you can entrust Orbital Fasteners with all your fixings, fastener and site consumable requirements.”

www.orbitalfasteners.co.uk 

We're invested in you and your success.
What we do is more than a job, we work every day to make the world better for all. Everything we do – from addressing water scarcity and aging infrastructure to ensuring access to life-saving therapies and protecting against sophisticated cyberattacks – is more than projects outlined in proposal requests. They’re our challenges as human beings, too.

That’s why we bring a thoughtful and collaborative approach to every one of our partnerships. We know we can help our partners make a positive impact on the world. We lead large project teams with many different companies and agencies – but make sure everyone’s voice has a chance to be heard and respected.

Our purpose is to improve people’s lives by delivering integrated leading edge smart infrastructure solutions to meet national needs across the UK’s energy, water, transportation and defence markets.

Bourton Group is an operational management consultancy who help their clients transform and improve their ways of working. For over 50 years they have listened closely to their clients to understand their needs and collaborated to ‘help make their business better’.

As experts in business transformation and change management they engage leaders and teams and drive measurable and sustainable improvement in business processes and people performance.

They make operations more efficient, eliminating waste and increasing customer satisfaction by using Lean and Six Sigma methods and by building our clients ability to carry on improving.

www.bourton.co.uk 

In its 5th year, UK Construction Week (UKCW) takes place on 8-10 October and brings together all stakeholders within the built environment across design, build and supply; promoting innovation, projects, learning and networking.

As the largest event dedicated to knowledge sharing, best practice, problem solving and product sourcing, it is the environment for the whole industry to discover, develop, discuss and do business; providing all the answers for how we build for our future. UKCW is FREE to attend and welcomes 650+ exhibitors, 35,000 visitors, over 300 expert speaker line-up and over 150 hours of CPD content. 

With a single registration, visitors can enter the co-located sections including: Build, Building Tech, Civils, Energy & HVAC, Surface & Materials, Timber and Grand Designs Live (free entry is for 9-10 October only) and newly launched Concrete Expo (8-9 October only).

www.ukconstructionweek.com