Dan is associate director at Liz Male Consulting (LMC), a specialist communications consultancy for the construction and property sector.

A Chartered PR practitioner, he has spent his career in the built environment, working in the UK and internationally. This includes significant work related to corporate positioning and reputation, community engagement, and crisis and issues management.

One of his areas of expertise is construction innovation, working with LMC’s portfolio of clients to drive change in the industry. Whether supporting a start-up with its first steps into the sector or working with established businesses, Dan helps them to communicate their agenda to the people that matter most.

Dan is also a board director at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), which is responsible for maintaining professional standards and supporting lifelong learning in PR.

Jenny McLaughlin has worked within the airport industry for over 20 years. This began at East Midlands Airport as an Environment and Safeguarding Officer achieving ISO14001. The last 16 years have been at Heathrow Airport in a number of departments including Environment, Airside and now Infrastructure as a project manager.

Jenny has delivered a number of business changes, from new aircraft de-icing process, introducing new IT applications, building a remote coaching gate in the middle of a live terminal, to significant maintenance work to the Northern runway.

Jenny is dyslexic and has ADHD and believes that “the way that my brain is wired differently is an asset”. Jenny is a speaker at a number of industry events on ‘Systematic Inclusion’, bringing to life the criticality of accessibility if we are to truly ‘Build Back Equitable’. This is most evident in being a key player in creation of RIBA Inclusive Design Overlay published earlier this year.

Finally, Jenny is a member of the board for Get It Right Initiative (GIRI). GIRI is a group of industry experts, organisations and businesses dedicated to eliminating error and improving the UK construction industry.

Jenny advocates that each person should have an equitable seat at the table and creating a safe environment to challenge and improve the way we interreact and build the world around us.

Dr. Roxana Vornicu, a practicing construction and procurement lawyer, joined King’s College London as a Research Associate in 2020. She holds a PhD in public procurement law from a doctorate program in Italy, the UK and France. Prior to joining King’s, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Turin, Italy where she focused her research on central purchasing bodies and a comparative review of framework agreements in the EU.

For the past three years, she has lectured at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, teaching about international treaties and their impact on construction contracts. She has also taught at Stuttgart University, the International Construction: Practice and Law (MBE) course, lecturing on collaborative construction contracts.

At King’s, Roxana has been involved in several research programs, including one that looked into procurement strategies for incentivising collaborative delivery to optimise whole-life outcomes. She contributed to the drafting of the White Paper: ‘Procurement Strategies for incentivising collaborative delivery to optimize whole-life outcomes’  developed by King’s Centre of Construction Law and the University of Cambridge Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology and published by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB).

She worked on the report: ‘Procuring Net Zero Construction’ which was published by the Society of Construction Law and endorsed by the UK Government in the September 2022 ´Construction Playbook´ and ´Guidance on Promoting Net Zero Carbon and Sustainability in Construction.’

Tom advises a wide range of public and private sector clients on issues relating to construction and engineering projects and PFI agreements and has particular experience in advising on building safety issues and the requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022.  He specialises in advising on dispute resolution – whether by way of negotiation, mediation, adjudication, arbitration or litigation.  Prior to qualifying as a solicitor, Tom trained and worked as an architect and has an excellent insight into the specific issues and challenges faced by clients operating within the built environment sector.