28 May 2025, 10:00-16:30, The Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
The CIBSE Scotland conference 2025 will be addressing how we create safe and sustainable futures. With a keynote address by Barbara Lane, Expert Witness to the Grenfell Inquiry, this is not a conference to be missed.
Conference Agenda
10:00: Registration and breakfast
10:30: Welcome and Introduction - Josh Robertson, 'Engineer a Career' podcast
Keynote: Barbara Lane, Expert Witness to Grenfell Inquiry - Barbara Lane, Arup
Session 1: Building Standards - Compliance Plan for Scotland - Frank Doherty, Building Standards Division
Session 2: Fife Schools Pilot of Compliance Plan Approach - Jamie Gregory, AHR Architects
Session 3: Edinburgh Homes Demonstrator Pilots and influences of Compliance Plan - Ryan Cossar, Scottish Futures Trust
Panel discussion: Compliance Plan for Scotland - Barbara Lane, Frank Doherty, Jamie Gregory, Ryan Cossar
12:00 - 12:30: Break
Session 4: Digital transformation and MEP: what goes on behind closed doors - Sarah Keyte
Student Poster Competition preview - Krystyna Curtis, CIBSE Scotland
13:30 - 14:15: Lunch
Student Poster Prize Presentations
Session 5: What's what and who's who: Embodied Carbon and Circular Economy - Brooke Smith, Max Fordham
Session 6: Fife College CLT - compliance with innovative solutions - Malcolm Bucannon, Woolgar Hunter
Panel discussion: Josh Robertson and all speakers
15:30 - 16:30: Networking
16:30: Close
Please note that this is a prospective agenda and is subject to change
Our speakers
Josh is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager, and the founder of Engineer a Career. Through podcasts and live events, he inspires and empowers the next generation of engineers - driven by the belief that every young person deserves to understand the routes to a career in engineering.
Frank Doherty has worked in the building standards profession in Scotland continually since 1995, across three separate Scottish Local Authorities and more recently with the Building Standards Division of the Scottish Government.
Frank is now Standards Compliance and Digital Strategy Team Leader within the Scottish Governments Building Standards Division.
Ryan is an experienced Architect and has led the design and development of various housing schemes across Scotland for private developers, local authorities and Registered Social Landlords, including innovative approaches, off-site manufacturing techniques, improving performance and briefing & evaluation.
He provides significant expertise supporting SFT’s work on the Edinburgh Home Demonstrator programme as well as improving the delivery of projects across multiple sectors using Modern Methods of Construction.
With her background in civil engineering, Brooke brings experience optimising embodied carbon of MEP systems and developing circular economy strategies for both retrofit and new building projects across several sectors. She has pioneered lighting-reuse and is experienced in managing the chains of communication required to enable circular economy implementation and control of embodied carbon through project installation stages.
Dr Barbara Lane is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow in Arup's global fire safety practice.
She is an expert in total fire safety - decision making, tools, techniques and solutions that enable the protection of life and property in the built environment. She has particular expertise in whole life cycle building fire safety, and the relevant legislative routes to compliance from concept design through to construction, handover, and the management of operational fire risk. Dr Lane has worked on projects around the world and specialises in complex buildings and structures. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin and Edinburgh University, she has worked on projects around the world at Arup since 1997. She was an expert witness for the Grenfell Inquiry, completing her work in September 2024.
Dr Lane was awarded the Silver Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008, for outstanding personal contribution with a commercial benefit to British engineering. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016 for services to fire safety; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018 for services to fire safety research and innovation.
Jamie Gregory is an accomplished architect and Associate Director at AHR. His experience spans a range of sectors, which has enabled him to develop a better understanding of how to apply innovative solutions to a variety of project types, no matter their scale or complexity. He is driven by sustainable design and relishes the opportunity to push the net zero carbon agenda.
As a certified Passivhaus designer, Jamie is passionate about creating smart, safe, and sustainable spaces.
Sarah Keyte is a testifying expert witness specialising in building information modelling (BIM) and Information Management. Her expert analysis has been used to support wider engineering and delay expert reports. She has been appointed or assisted experts in disputes from the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, South America, and North America.
Malcolm Bucannon, Woolgar Hunter
Thank-you to our sponsors
CIBSE Scotland Safe and Sustainable Futures sponsors
Carrier
Carrier is a global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, with a diverse and world-class workforce. From the beginning, we have led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we keep customers at the center of every product and service we offer and we act quickly to exceed their expectations. Through our performance-driven culture, we are creating long-term shareowner value by growing earnings and investing strategically to strengthen our position in the markets we serve. Carrier has over 75 brands, has produced over 100 new products for the ninth consecutive year, has over 14,000 active and pending patent applications worldwide and approximately 53,000 employees serving customers in 160+ countries.
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Hays
Hays are a world-wide specialist in recruitment and workforce solutions. In FY23 we helped c.320,000 white-collar candidates secure their next career move, including c.245,000 Temp & Contracting roles and c.76,800 Perm jobs.
What sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues they face today we help them make the right decisions for tomorrow. For our candidates, we’re looking ahead for their careers by offering insights, pathways and support for their ambitions, building our understanding so we can connect them to the right opportunities.
We operate across 22 different sectors across the globe. Our Construction & Property specialism has been a strong bedrock of our services for almost 50 years and we have developed specialist MEP Services within this specialism. This has lead to a long standing partnership with CIBSE. One our most recent new specialisms is sustainability and we’re excited to present roles in net zero and climate change, environmental social governance (ESG), sustainable buildings, energy and carbon management, environmental impact assessment (EIA), biodiversity and air quality, contaminated land, water management and flood risk management.
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IES
Over the last 28 years IES has built a solid reputation as the leading global innovator in integrated performance-based analysis for the built environment. Through their unique software capability and expert consultancy, IES help to support energy and resource efficient, healthy and cost-effective built environments across their lifecycle.
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Grundfos
Water has always been the heart and soul of Grundfos. That’s why we’re driven by our purpose – to pioneer solutions to the world’s water and climate challenges and improve quality of life for people.
This purpose is central to everything we do, guiding us in our promise – to respect, protect and advance the flow of water.
- We take our responsibility seriously, and commit to promoting greater respect and understanding of water around the world.
- We protect water by minimising waste, inefficiency, shortage, discomfort and inaccessibility, wherever the flow of water is needed.
- We advance the flow of water through water system innovations as well as energy optimisations, with a focus on sustaining water’s flow now and into the future.
Kooltech
Established in 1979 Kooltech is one of the UK's largest privately owned distributors of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning products.
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Schneider Electric
Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.
Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.
We are a global industrial technology leader bringing world-leading expertise in electrification, automation and digitisation to smart industries, resilient infrastructure, future-proof data centres, intelligent buildings, and intuitive homes. Anchored by our deep domain expertise, we provide integrated end-to-end lifecycle AI enabled Industrial IoT solutions with connected products, automation, software and services, delivering digital twins to enable profitable growth for our customers.
We are a people company with an ecosystem of 150,000 colleagues and more than a million partners operating in over 100 countries to ensure proximity to our customers and stakeholders. We embrace diversity and inclusion in everything we do, guided by our meaningful purpose of a sustainable future for all.
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SAV
As the recognised industry leader in delivering renewable technology and Heat Network expertise, SAV collaborates with global, market leading technology partners to offer a range of innovative and award-winning heating, cooling, and ventilation solutions. Our primary focus is on mitigating the carbon footprint of buildings and addressing fuel poverty.
Reducing energy consumption is a vital part of achieving our Net Zero targets. Naturally, the more generation capacity required the more expensive the transition to renewable technologies will be. Hence, Net Zero starts with eliminating energy waste from our buildings by realising energy savings and increasing energy efficiency.
SAV’s mission statement has always been to “achieve optimum indoor living, with minimum energy wastage.”
CIBSE Patrons
CIBSE Patrons is a network of businesses who collaborate to give financial, technical and moral backing to a wide range of initiatives led by CIBSE. Members include consulting engineering practices, manufacturers, contractors, and trade bodies. The Patrons’ primary focus is on ‘nurturing talent’: they support a wide range of initiatives designed to attract, encourage and improve the recruitment, development, training and retention of engineers on behalf of the industry at large. This support ranges from the production of careers booklets, to the sponsorship of bursaries, and to their growing role as lead supporter of the CIBSE Young Engineers Awards.