Trusted and Responsible Data and Artificial Intelligence in Construction- Latest Developments
2025-03-12 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/London) | Online
On 12th March the CE Digital Group will be taking part in a workshop on the latest developments in ‘Trusted and Responsible Data and Artificial Intelligence in Construction’.
Artificial Intelligence is everywhere at the moment! Leaving organisations in the construction sector unsure of where to invest their time and effort to ensure their AI strategy delivers genuine impact and limit the potential risks. Constructing Excellence has been collaborating with colleagues at BRE on an Innovate UK-funded project TRAMS Enterprise, which aims to help overcome this challenge.
The TRAMS-Enterprise project has developed a unified, sector-wide framework for managing trusted and responsible data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) solutions for the construction industry. The initiative leveraged the work being undertaken in this area in the finance sector, expertise and needs of leading contractors and industry bodies to address challenges hindering the development, adoption, and diffusion of AI/ML solutions in on-site construction.
Key Project Deliverables:

A functional and widely adopted framework, with future models explored for broader industry use.
Proof-of-concept AI-based solutions developed and demonstrated by the participating SMEs within the TRAMS-Enterprise framework.

The workshop will address issues and data sharing tools for managing trusted and responsible data, artificial intelligence (AI), learning from the finance sector and case studies applying the Trams Enterprise framework.
Join us on 12th March, 9:30- 11:00.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Major Projects Group- March
2025-03-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
***This event is invite only***
The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments.
The next Major Projects Group session will take place on Thursday 13th March. Get in touch to register your interest.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.
***This event is invite only***

CE Procurement Group meeting - Selection By Value
2025-03-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.
Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world’s leading government contracts lawyers.

Join us on Monday 17th March for a session on Selection By Value. More details to follow shortly…

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Energy Transition Session
2025-03-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Energy Transition is one of the most significant issues facing societies around the world. The need to decarbonise and move away from fossil fuels has never been greater and the rush to deliver projects is hugely challenging from a capacity and capability perspective. This requires us to organise differently to set projects up for success and deliver productively. This requires genuine collaboration at a project and macro level – something that ECI and Constructing Excellence have been advocating for some time.
Join us for the next session on 24th March for an opportunity for young professionals in the energy transition space to share their examples of good practice and identify areas in which they’d like to see improvements.
Please come along armed with examples of good practice to share with the group to discuss what has worked in the past, what are the challenges and where are the opportunities to to deliver improvements in the future.
In June we will be holding a face to face workshop focusing on Energy Transition to look at the options, challenges and recommendations for the industry moving forward. We will be further developing the programme for this event in March’s session so join us to help shape this key event in our journey to deliver more effective Energy Transition projects.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group – April
2025-04-03 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for. We will be joined by Group Chair Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald.

Join us on Thursday 3rd April for a productive online discussion. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Digital by Default Group- Digitalisation of Reinforcing Steel (Rebar)
2025-05-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Join the CE Digital By Default group on Thursday 8th May for a session on Digitalisation of Reinforcing Steel (Rebar).
The group will hear from Ladin Camci BSc MSc, Chief Technology & Sustainability Officer (CTSO) & Executive Board Member of CARES, and Andrew Woolnough CEO of CARES’ digital partner Digital Construction Solutions. We will also hear from Simon Gibbs, Regional Manager at Giatec and Rachel Heaton, Construction Engagement Manager at GS1 UK.
Session Overview
The existing rebar steel supply chain workflows were still inherently labour intensive, paper-based and not capable of connecting the full product supply chain, which made the process susceptible to impairment or malicious alteration potentially leaving significant gaps in the assurance trails. Further to this, with the existing paper-based solutions, documents are stored in a way that makes locating them more complex increasing search time for information stored across paper, inboxes and network folders. In addition to this, visually mapping and reviewing different stages of the supply chain are rendered extremely challenging due to poor recording and traceability. To enhance the existing paper-based workflows through the advancement of a digitalised process that required the development of bespoke data collection methodologies and integrating with advanced levels of verification and quality assurance capabilities.
The CARES Cloud (https://cares.cloud/) has been developed to address and solve these urgent issues, bringing simplicity to a complex supply chain while restoring trust where it’s missing. The solution is a digital traceability and assurance platform consisting of the Upstream Cloud, Downstream Cloud and complementary Apps. The solution enables:

real-time analysis of the production origin of the rebar;
an accurate carbon footprint value for each tonne of rebar delivered;
reliable, easily-accessible evidence of assurance for inclusion in project BIM models;
sophisticated API architecture for seamless connectivity to other systems;
full digitalisation of the rebar supply chain by connecting with products like Rebar Cloud (https://rebar.cloud/).

During this session, we will also hear from Giatec. Giatec’s mission is to bring disruptive, knowledge-based and sustainable technologies to the concrete industry. Giatec identify current challenges in concrete testing and design innovative solutions to address them. Their products allow concrete producers, contractors and business owners to increase profitability of their projects by saving time, labour and costs. Their SmartRock sensors enable contractors to see, in real-time, the strength and temperature of their concrete ensuring that curing conditions remain within the ideal range for high-quality construction.

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Procurement Group- Procuring for Building Safety
2025-05-19 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.
On Monday 19th May the group will hear from Kevin Murray on the topic of ‘Procuring for Building Safety’. Discussion points will include…
1. Background to Procuring for Building Safety
2. Procurement Advisory Group
3. Building Safety Act
4. Industry Competence Group, Industry Competence Steering Group and Sector Led Groups
5. BSI 8670, PAS 8671, 8672 and 8673
6. Grenfell Phase 2 Report
7. Competence Frameworks being developed by the Sector Led Groups
8. Industry Action Committee call to action
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Energy Transition: Creating the Future Today
2025-06-10 10:00 - 16:00 | Turner and Townsend Office, One New Change, London, EC4M 9AF, United Kingdom
There is a significant body of evidence that demonstrates that collaborative delivery mechanisms deliver better outcomes. A range of tried and tested processes, tools and delivery mechanisms are in place to enable collaborative working. However conventional contracting acts as a barrier to achieving the positive benefits. Collaborative Working & Contracting MEANS Effective And Efficient Use Of Money For ALL Delivery Stakeholders = positive ROI.
The scale of the challenge facing energy transition is significant. The industry needs to do a great deal more with very much less: people & money – efficiency is mandatory and effective project teamwork within and between project delivery stakeholders is crucial.
The objective of this session is to provide guidance to industry on the changes to project delivery and contracting that are required to support effective and economic energy transition projects. In this session we will invite participants to share their experiences of effective collaborative projects and projects were things have not gone to plan. We will work through scenarios to consider key aspects of project delivery including:

Mindset change – how do we support a change in mindset so that all delivery stakeholders are invested in success?
How do we drive performance through effective communication and building trust?
How do we incentivise improvements on both investment cost and delivery time?
How do we change the approach to risk? Treat risk as a project / business matter to be navigated effectively and opportunities pursued for the benefit of the project and its delivery stakeholders.

Join us in-person on Tuesday 10th June for this joint ECI and CE session; share your views and experiences and explore how we do better on energy transition projects.

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group – June
2025-06-11 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for. We will be joined by Group Chair Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald.

Join us on Wednesday 11th June for a productive online discussion. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Major Projects Group- June
2025-06-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
***This event is invite only***

The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments.
Join us on Monday 16th June, for a session with the Major Projects group. More information to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

***This event is invite only***

Innovation Exchange: Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs)
2025-06-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join the Innovation Exchange Group on Tuesday 24th June for a session on Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). The group will hear from Loughborough University & Skanska, YorHub and Leeds Beckett University about the KTPs they’re engaging in currently.
KTPs are are unique collaborative partnerships between businesses and universities, colleges, research organisations and Catapults. They create positive impact and drive innovation. Each KTP addresses a specific challenge and enables the transfer of knowledge, technology, and expertise from the academic partner to the business or organisation. Find out more on the Innovate UK website.
During this session we will further explore…

What are KTPs?
How do they enable better collaboration between industry and academia?
What benefits do they bring to business?

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

CE Visit to Royal Surrey County Hospital
2025-06-25 13:00 - 16:30 | Royal Surrey County Hospital, Egerton Road, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XX, United Kingdom
Join the Offsite Manufacturing & Technology group for a visit to Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust’s Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre (CASIC) at Royal Surrey County Hospital.

This project is being delivered by MTX, using modern methods of construction, and aims to increase surgical capacity, improve patient care, reduce workflow inefficiencies and help reduce waiting lists, while enabling the use of emerging technological innovations in both robotic and non-robotic surgery. Find out more.
On Wednesday 25th June, the Offsite Manufacturing & Technology group will be hosting a site visit to explore the modern methods of construction being employed on the Cancer and Surgical Innovation Centre project, due for completion June 2026. Sign up now to reserve your space.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group- PAS 8700:2025
2025-07-08 14:30 - 16:00 | Online
Join the Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group on 8th July for a session about BSI’s newly published PAS 8700:2025 Modern methods of construction for new build residential properties – Specification. The group will hear more about this PAS from Dan Rossiter, BSI, and Gaynor Tenant, Offsite Alliance, who led the committee.
PAS 8700:2025 has been developed to set out the process for the effective deployment of modern methods of construction (MMC) in residential development to improve stakeholder understanding and realize the benefits of MMC. The aim is to support the procurement, design, manufacture, construction and use of safe, resilient and repairable residential buildings that use MMC.
Find out more about PAS 8700:2025.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Digital by Default- BuildAudIt: Making Every Building Audit Smarter
2025-07-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join the CE Digital By Default group on Thursday 10th July for a session on the BuildAudIt Platform. The group will explore how this Innovate UK funded project can make the building audit process smarter.
BuildAudIt was a 12 month Innovate UK funded project (under their BridgeAI funding scheme), involving a consortium including BRE, Enable My Team, UNIT9 Apps, Reusefully and Imperial College. The consortium brought together knowledge and expertise in Pre-retrofit & Pre-demolition audits (PRA / PDA), building data collation/analysis and the use of AI including Large Language Models, natural language processing & visual data recognition.
The project has developed a ‘proof-of-concept’ version of an AI-enabled platform for accurate, cost-effective PDA/PRA’s of existing buildings. However, we realise that these tools could be applied to a range of surveys / audits of existing building stock, including sustainability, fire risk, condition surveys, due diligence among other. BRE are now exploring exploitation / commercialisation of project outcomes.
Find out more.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group – September
2025-09-04 09:30 - 11:00 | Online
The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for. We will be joined by Group Chair Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald.

Join us on Thursday 4th September for a productive online discussion. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

CE Procurement Group meeting - September
2025-09-15 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement. Join us for the next session at 11am on 15th September.
Following our recent consultation submission, the group will present a summary during the meeting, which will be followed by a discussion on how we can promote fair payment practices and better support SMEs through our organisational strategies and procurement processes.

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group- NHP Industrialised Construction Update
2025-11-11 14:30 - 16:00 | Online
Chaired by Alex Small of Tata Steel, this group is looking at how we can best leverage the knowledge that sits throughout the supply chain and the manufacturing base to add more value to projects and programmes.
Join us for the next session online on Monday 11th November, 2:30pm- 4pm, where we’ll be hearing from Emily King, Doug Baldock and Abbie Romano, NHP, on the New Hospital Programme’s approach to industrialised construction.

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

CE Procurement Group meeting - November
2025-11-17 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.

Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world’s leading government contracts lawyers.

More details on this session will follow shortly…

This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Major Projects Group- December
2025-12-01 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
***This event is invite only***

The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments.
Join us on Monday 1st December, for a session with the Major Projects group. More information to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

***This event is invite only***

Performance Measurement Group
2025-12-02 11:30 - 13:00 | Online
The Performance Measurement group will be meeting to continue exploring different measures and tools available and how they can be used/ what they’re good for. We will be joined by Group Chair Simon Cross, Director at Mott MacDonald.

Join us on Tuesday 2nd December where we will be joined by Melanie Womack, Lead Market Health Analyst from the Cabinet Office to inform how the market health team support government departments, executive agencies and arms length bodies in market management. Melanie is also researching productivity levels within the UK construction market. She will present to the group about aims, activity to date and an emerging barrier regarding standard metrics which the Performance Measurement Group is well versed in. Melanie would welcome members views and there will be time for discussion and input.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group- February
2026-02-03 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Chaired by Simon Cross of KPMG, the Performance Measurement group will be meeting on Tuesday 3rd February for a productive online discussion focussed on performance measurement across the construction industry. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Embedding Digital Group- February
2026-02-26 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Contact us to register your attendance.
Join the CE Embedding Digital Group on Thursday 26th February for an insightful session delving into digital strategies and techniques in construction. More information to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group- April
2026-04-07 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
Chaired by Simon Cross of KPMG, the Performance Measurement group will be meeting on Tuesday 7th April for a productive online discussion focussed on performance measurement across the construction industry. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Offsite Manufacturing & Technology Group- April
2026-04-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Chaired by Alex Small of Tata Steel, this group is looking at how we can best leverage the knowledge that sits throughout the supply chain and the manufacturing base to add more value to projects and programmes.
Join us for the next session, on Friday 17th April, where we will hear from speakers; Ron Lang (Atkins Realis), Mike Pitts (Innovate UK – UKRI) and Keith Waller (High Value Manufacturing Catapult – HVM Catapult). They will share their plans for the Mission Accelerator Programme, recently launched under the UK Research and Innovation Mission Accelerator Programme: Industrialising & Digitalising Construction.
This programme seeks to establish a digital marketplace to support the large‑scale development and deployment of industrialised building components and processes. It will include a collaborative platform where construction, manufacturing, technology companies, and suppliers can jointly create, refine, and configure standardised digital designs for both buildings and infrastructure. The aim is to reduce errors, cut waste, and accelerate the delivery of major projects.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

CE Procurement Group- April
2026-04-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group, chaired by Rebecca Rees, brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.
Join us on Wednesday 22nd April for another interesting session on The Economics of Social Value – Who Pays? We will hear from speakers Lucy Howard, Turners & Townsend, and Ellie Jenkins, Akerlof.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Embedding Digital Group- May
2026-05-11 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join the CE Embedding Digital Group on Monday 11th May for an insightful session where we will hear from Nigel Stroud, Principal Digital Asset Data Lead at Heathrow.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Research perspectives on Safety Culture
2026-05-28 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Research perspectives on Safety Culture
Working in collaboration with ARCOM (Association of Researchers in Construction Management), Constructing Excellence will provide a valuable forum for the exchange of knowledge and ideas between academic researchers and industry practitioners.
Join us for the first session on the research around Safety Culture led by Dr Emmanuel Aboagye-Nimo, Birmingham City University, which will take place on Thursday 28th May. More information to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

CE Procurement Group- June
2026-06-11 11:00 - 12:30 | Online
The Constructing Excellence Procurement Group, chaired by Rebecca Rees, brings together a highly knowledgeable group of our members who are committed to delivering better procurement.
Rebecca is a partner and Head of Public Procurement at the international law firm, Trowers & Hamlins, and is a leading national expert in public procurement law, consistently ranked as among the world’s leading government contracts lawyers.
Join us on Thursday 11th June for another interesting session, more details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Performance Measurement Group- June
2026-06-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Online
Chaired by Simon Cross of KPMG, the Performance Measurement group will be meeting on Tuesday 16th June for a productive online discussion focussed on performance measurement across the construction industry. Further details to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.

Constructing Excellence Major Projects Group- May
2026-06-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
***This event is invite only***
The Constructing Excellence Major Projects group brings together industry members to drill into the challenges and opportunities of major projects to facilitate productivity improvements and build on their potential to act as live learning environments.
Join us on Thursday 18th June, for a session with the new group chair, Malcolm Lewis, Cost and Commercial Director, Great Grid Partnership, National Grid. More information to follow shortly.
This event provides Constructing Excellence National members with CPD in partnership with BRE Academy.
***This event is invite only***
