Healthcare Property Development Conference – Online Re-Run

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – Ian Greggor, Director of Estates & Facilities

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – Melanie Banks, Deputy Director, Redevelopment

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are planning a major redevelopment of the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital site, with an Acute Services Block and New Ward Block due to be completed by the end of 2024. This ambitious £100 million project will increase capacity, improve efficiency and sustainability, increase hospital capacity and address national workforce challenges through a modern, flexible design.

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust – Duane Passman, Acute Redevelopment Programme Director

West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is moving forward with its proposal to redevelop its three sites, submitting an outline proposal this spring with the hope of a new hospital by 2025/6. The main Watford General Hospital will be completely transformed, and there will be considerable improvements to the Trust’s other two sites, at Hemel Hempstead and St Albans. The total cost of the project is estimated at £341m and Duane will discuss the Trust’s efforts to move forward with the ambitious programme and the myriad benefits it will provide.

APPG for Health – Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Co-Chair

She is a past president of the Royal Society of Medicine She is a professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University School of Medicine and is consultant at the Velindre Cancer Centre in South Wales. On 28 June 2001, she was made a life peer as Baroness Finlay of Llandaff in the County of South Glamorgan. As part of the APPG for Health, the Baroness is a passionate campaigner for healthcare investment and will join the event to cover details on how the built environment sector can support improvement of health environments

Welbeck Health Partners – Daniel Buehler, Chief of Planning and Capital Projects

Welbeck Health Partners partner with leading clinicians to build bespoke centres of excellence that deliver simple, efficient care at the highest level. Our leadership has deep expertise in designing and operating innovative models of healthcare both in the UK and internationally, including AmSurg – the USA’s leading operator of day case surgery clinics, and Leaders in Oncology Care – the UK’s foremost private oncology clinic. Following the success of their flagship One Welbeck centre in London, they are developing their second centre in Oxford, with a third planned for Edinburgh.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust – Berenice Groves, Deputy Chief Executive

Chesterfield Royal Hospital recently revealed a multi-million pound plans for a new urgent and emergency care department at the front of the hospital site where an existing staff car park is sited. The department is expected to transform the face of emergency care for more than 420,000 people who live in North Derbyshire. Berenice is leading on this project and will discuss this ambitious scheme which is expected to cost around £26 million.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust – Peter Ward, Director of Real Estate Development

Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation, along with the London Boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark and Kings Health Partners are creating the SC1 life science innovation district. The project will create a globally renowned quarter of high impact health innovation which will create a range of opportunities for the local community through the co-location of healthcare, research and development. The partnership is moving forward with the “Snowsfields Quarter” – a £350m, 300,000sq ft life sciences hub being developed alongside Reef Group and Oxford Properties which will play a central role in creating the required, and highly technical, real estate infrastructure to support the emergence of the SC1 innovation cluster. Peter will discuss how the partnership will develop innovation that meets local needs, bring employment and investment into the surrounding community and put health innovation at the heart of Lambeth and Southwark.

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust – Carolyn Lewis, Director of Estates & Facilities

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in the south east, serving over 500,000 people over 3 sites with an annual budget approaching £250m. Carolyn will discuss the complexities of managing an estate able to serve ½ million people which includes the UK’s first PFI hospital. We will also hear about the trust’s plan for a new 18 bed flexible ward and how its design has been significantly altered taking into account lessons learnt during C19.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust – Matthew Tulley, Redevelopment Programme Director

Imperial College NHS Trust are one of the country’s largest NHS Trusts and have plans to redevelop a large part of their ageing estate. A full redevelopment of St Mary’s Hospital is planned, requiring £1.2-1.7 billion of investment for the creation of 840 beds and a clinical life science cluster. Major refurbishment and rebuilding projects are also being planned for Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals, with all three projects estimated to start from 2025 onwards.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust – Anna Basford, Director of Transformation and Strategy

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are planning a major development and improvement project for the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary to improve clinical outcomes and deliver improved care for local patients. The £196.5 million project will see the construction of a new A&E building and an essential works programme to upgrade wards and theatres, with the project planned for completion in 2025. Anna will discuss this momentous project and how the trust are working to get the project off the ground.

North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust – Jug Johal, Director of Estates & Facilities

Over the last year North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust has received over £130 million in capital funding which is being invested in new emergency departments and MRI scanning facilities as well as an extensive programme of refurbishment and expansion, with works focusing on improving wards, theatres and increasing our neuro-rehabilitation provision. The trust has also been awarded the largest funding package to date of any NHS Trust as part of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme, with £40.3 million awarded, allowing significant energy improvement schemes at their hospital sites across Goole, Scunthorpe and Grimsby, which should deliver annual savings in excess of 5,000 tonnes of CO2.

OneMedical Property – Rachel Beverley-Stevenson, Co-Founder and Executive Chair

OneMedical Property are experts in designing, investing in, developing and managing healthcare properties and facilities to house NHS primary and urgent care services, enabling healthcare professionals to deliver the best possible care to patients. Through innovative, patient centred premises development they have delivered over 645,000 sq ft of healthcare property across the UK and are building on this through an extensive development pipeline.

Pagabo – Dr Stuart Kings, Director

Stuart is an experienced NEC and procurement consultant who helps ensure the legal and technical compliance of all products at Sypro. He’s one of only a handful of NEC4 drafters in the country and a co-author of NEC3 and NEC4 Practical Solutions.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Susie Gray, Director of Property

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey & North East Hampshire, serving a population of 1.3 million. The trust is planning to develop two new hospitals in Chertsey and East Surrey which will transform the care they are able to deliver, with both planned for completion in 2025. Susie will discuss the complexities of funding hospital development for trusts that miss out on HIP funding and their efforts to work around government set limits on spending.

Assura – James Dunmore, Head of Partnerships

Assura are one of the UK’s leading healthcare investment, development and management companies with a portfolio of over 570 GP surgeries, primary care facilities and diagnostic and treatment centres. They have multiple projects in the pipeline and are working towards the UK’s first net-zero primary care facility.

James has experience in business strategy, programme management, bidding, acquisitions, partnerships and infrastructure investment across primary, community and secondary healthcare, residential and specialist care.

Prior to joining Assura James spent two years advising Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership on estates and financing strategy. James is an economist and has a Masters from Oxford University.

Local Partnerships – Jenny Coombs, Senior Director Place

Local Partnerships is jointly owned by jointly owned by HM Treasury, the Local Government Association and the Welsh Government. Jenny is Programme Director for Local Partnerships’ Health & Social Care team. She has supported the Welsh Government with their Integrated Care Fund which integrates health and housing by supporting accommodation-led projects that can deliver savings or other beneficial outcomes for health and social care. She is also working with several clients, the LGA and the One Public Estate programme to develop whole-system business cases across multi-agency partnerships.

NHS Property Services – Aahsan Rahman, Head of Town Planning

NHS Property Services is a government-owned company which exists to help the NHS get the most from its estate, so that healthcare professionals can focus on delivering excellent patient care. Its portfolio more than 3,000 properties with 7,000 tenants across England, with a total value of more than £3bn.

Aahsan will discuss the potential of tapping into the town planning system to benefit the NHS estate with a particular focus on developer funding such as Section 106 and Community Infrastructure Levy, and how they can be used to complement investment in new hospitals and health infrastructure.

Forcerto UK – Andrea Parle, Head of Marketing & Business Development

Andrea Parle has over 30 years experience, in the HVAC and Building Services Industry and more recently with Clean Air Technology. Forcerto are leading experts in Clean Air, Clean Buildings and Facilities Management and over the last 18 months have been researching and testing the latest plasma technology to clean the indoor air we breathe.  In addition to the standard air filters placed within A/C units, air ionisers have been installed in the units to circulate ionisation treatment into the room air itself to keep it clean.

Cleaning hands and surfaces isn’t enough. We need clean indoor air ventilation to significantly reduce the risk of infection and to get people back to feeling safe when they come into hospitals and medical practices as well as commercial and retail buildings.

Rutherford Estates – John McIntosh, General Manager

Rutherford Health operates a network of cancer centres, nationally and internationally, providing all-encompassing cancer centres for their patients. They have developed a network of 4 centres in the UK so far and recently announced a £40m infrastructure investment and have a long term plan to provide the majority of patients with a state-of-the-art cancer centre within a ninety-minute journey of their front door, wherever they are in the UK. The first of these projects is a £12 million diagnostic centre planned for Merseyside which will begin development in December.

John has more than three decades of experience planning and delivering healthcare in challenging environments worldwide. As the General Manager of Rutherford Estates and Rutherford Infrastructures, he leads the infrastructure delivery and estates management arm of Rutherford Health.

Collida: A Willmott Dixon Company – Anna Lutterodt, Senior Architect

Collida is Willmott Dixon’s integrated built environment platform. It’s where our customers harness the power of our sustainable design, procurement and delivery resources, all in a centralised location. Collida’s vision is to revolutionise construction and accelerate its natural rate of change, enabling the delivery of better products, more efficiently. Anna is the Lead Architect on Collida Wellbeing, focused on developing Collida’s health and wellbeing products. She has over 15 years of architectural practice experience, working extensively on healthcare projects of varying scale and complexity, in both the public and private healthcare sectors.

Ankura – Andrew Jeffery, Senior Managing Director

Andrew Jeffery is Senior Managing Director within Ankura’s London office specialising in project advisory services. He is a highly experienced and focused Chartered Surveyor with over 28 years of international construction, infrastructure, real estate, and advisory experience. He specialises in project and programme feasibility, project due diligence, governance and controls, project reviews, assurance services, project intervention, and turnaround services.

Ankura is a business advisory firm defined by HOW we solve challenges. Whether a client is facing an immediate business challenge, trying to increase the value of their company or protect against future risks, Ankura designs, develops, and executes tailored solutions by assembling the right combination of expertise. We build on this experience with every case, client, and situation, collaborating to create innovative, customized solutions, and strategies designed for today’s ever-changing business environment. At Ankura, we know that collaboration drives results

Revizto – James Lawrence, VDC Construction Implementation Manager

James Lawrence has been working in the construction industry for over 17 years. His experience has varied from consultancies through to major contractors working on projects of varying cost and size. His journey started working in AutoCAD then through to Revit and BM Management. His digital journey continues with Revizto using his experience and knowledge to help clients through their very own digital journey to provide assistance and solutions to workflow issues.

Built Environment Networking – Amanda Griffiths, Director

Amanda is one of the Co-Founder’s of Built Environment Networking – formed almost 10 years ago.

She’ll be hosting throughout the day, running the days proceedings and managing the interaction between our delegates and the speakers.

Wates – Simon Kydd, Healthcare Sector Lead

Simon Kydd is the Head of Healthcare at Wates, a family owned construction and property services business experienced in delivering specialised projects in the healthcare sector, with recently completed projects including  the £79.9m renovation of the headquarters of the Royal College of Surgeons, in London; a 72-bed mental health facility, Foss Park Hospital, for Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust; world-leading clinical facilities at the Quadram Institute in Norwich; and a 176-bed Intensive Care Unit for the Royal London Hospital, completed last year in just five weeks during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic for St Barts NHS Hospital Trust.  When he is not traveling across the UK, Simon is a huge F1 fan, and enjoys photography and hill-walking.

Forcerto UK – Adam Taylor, Technical Manager

Since completion of his mechanical engineering degree, Adam has spent 17 years working in the HVAC industry. He spent his early career as a mechanical design engineer, designing domestic heating systems and then bespoke air distribution systems. Working on high profile projects such as venues for the 2012 London Olympic games and the preservation of the Mary Rose Tudor warship.

In 2016, he began promoting adoption of the soon to be released BB101 guidelines. This was a revolutionary standard designed to improve air quality and thermal comfort in schools via implementation of demand-controlled heat recovery and natural ventilation solutions.

In 2018, Adam began also working internationally in the emerging field of indoor air cleaning technologies.

Built Environment Networking – Fahmida Nisa, Host & Event Manager

Nisa is a research, marketing and content specialist at Built Environment Networking. She will be hosting a number of the sessions throughout the day, running the day’s proceedings and managing the interaction between our virtual delegates and the speakers.

Revizto – Rhys Lewis, Director

Rhys Lewis is a Director at Revizto and also the chair of the UK BIM Alliance Wales community. He has spent the last 15 years in the construction technology space, encouraging and helping industry to create better experiences in design, construction and facilities management. A unique career that spans across both vendor and end-user has enabled Rhys to fully understand the core challenges industry faces and then deliver innovative technology that directly address these pain points. Rhys is passionate about empowering project teams with solutions and ideas to improve collaboration.

ABB – Jim Sword, Commercial Buildings Manager (UK) – Electrification

Jim has worked within the building automation industry for 30 years and has extensive knowledge of Building Energy Management Systems (BeMS) and integration with other Building Automation Systems such as Fire, Security, Access & Lighting. He has supported selection and implementation of systems in a wide variety of projects including major office developments, research sites healthcare providers, schools and retail outlets.

Jim believes that integrated systems have a large role to play in making building environments efficient, safe, comfortable and can introduce automated processes that assist with compliance which is becoming increasingly more important.

Whilst Jim is relatively new to ABB he brings a wealth of industry knowledge to support the future of buildings using more intelligent IoT based devices to deliver efficient and safe buildings.