12 reasons to attend UK Construction Week

With only a matter of days to go until the UK’s largest construction industry event, here are 12 reasons why you can’t afford to miss UK Construction Week 2018.

1. GROUNDBREAKING INNOVATION

With more products than any other show, including more than 100 exclusive product launches, you’ll find the most ground-breaking products on display throughout UK Construction Week. Just follow the Innovation Trail for the opportunity to talk to manufacturers about the solutions their cutting-edge products can offer, including a trailblazing solution for flat roof systems, quiet, reliable, zero emissions power, interactive 3D visualisations, and much, much more.

Discover the Innovation Trail

2. 9 SHOWS UNDER ONE ROOF

The UK’s largest event for the built environment is FREE to attend and consists of nine shows: Timber Expo, Build Show, Civils Expo, Plant & Machinery Live, Energy 2018, Building Tech Live, Surface & Materials Show, HVAC 2018 and Grand Designs Live (open trade on 10-11 October).

Uniting more than 650 exhibitors with an audience of over 30,000 trade visitors, nowhere else in the UK will have access to such a vast array of construction products and services on one place, providing innovation and technological advantages for projects of all sizes.

See the full exhibitor line up

3. THE UK’S BIGGEST OFFSITE SHOWCASE

Top of the agenda at this year’s show is modular construction, the high-quality, efficient and cost-effective solution to the current national housing crisis.

Our dedicated Offsite Theatre, supported by the Modular & Portable Building Association (MBPA) and Structural Timber Association (STA), brings together some of the key players and new faces in this burgeoning sector to discuss the wide array of projects and techniques currently being championed around the UK.

Covering airports, bathroom pods, social housing, shipping containers, passivhaus techniques, 3D printed property, skyscrapers and schools – is there really anything we can’t build offsite?

View the Offsite Theatre programme here

4. SEMINARS

The UK Construction Week seminar programme provides high-level discussion around the important issues facing the building industry today. Topics include the digital future of construction, diversity, Brexit, the national housing crisis and new delivery models. There will be a heavy focus on the lessons learned in the past year, such as fire safety post-Grenfell, the Carillion collapse and how the industry is moving as a whole.

Our stellar speaker line-up includes former Trump Tower engineer, Barbara A Res; Chair of Heathrow Skills Taskforce, Lord David Blunkett; RIBA President, Ben Derbyshire; The National Infrastructure Commission’s Bridget Rosewell, and many, many more.

See the full seminar programme

5. STAY INFORMED: FREE CPD PROGRAMME

Once again, UK Construction Week is running a fully accredited CPD programme, providing free education for all visitors who want to stay on top of their game. This year, there’s an even wider range of content, with topics that include fire prevention, sustainability, building materials, business services, infrastructure, building regulations, health and safety, and much, much more.

Spaces are limited, pre-book your seats on registration

6. MATERIALS THAT MATTER

Be inspired by your senses and experience the building materials of the future at the Surface & Materials Show. MaterialDistrict – the world’s leading match-making platform in the field of innovative materials – have selected 100 international materials that show the important role of future materials in the built environment.

Materials on display will include lightweight composites, recycled plastic, engineered wood, natural materials like cork textile and bamboo façades, and new resources that we used to call “waste”. The expo will also showcase acoustic solutions, smart interactive sunscreen materials and healthy bio based material sources. The materials that matter in every sense.

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7. WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES

IEMA’s free-to-attend Sustainable Construction Conference will take place at UK Construction Week on Wednesday 10 October, while BRE Academy host a series of CPD workshops throughout the show on a first-come, first-served basis.
With the theme “Building for the Future”, the BMF will also hold their first ever Young Merchants Conference on Thursday 11 October, while the newly rebranded Construction Excellence Midlands bring together the regional construction industry and its supply chain to explore the challenges and opportunities across the Midlands sector on Tuesday 9 October.

To find out more and book your places, visit our What’s On page

8. UKCW ROLE MODELS: INSPIRING THE FUTURE OF CONSTRUCTION

Launched in March 2018, UK Construction Week established its Role Models campaign to inspire those wanting to come into the construction industry and raise awareness of the breadth of roles available. The Role Models Award provides an opportunity to celebrate all the players in the industry, and applaud the role model’s brilliant individual strategies for making the industry stronger and better. This year’s deserving winner will be announced on 10 October on the UKCW Stage. Don’t miss it.

Meet the Class of 2018 here

9. PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS

The Construction Enquirer Awards are dedicated to recognising and rewarding the industry’s best companies to work for and do business with. Hosting the Awards night is renowned architect and broadcaster George Clarke, with the UK’s most quotable one-liner comic, Gary Delaney, performing a laugh-a-minute set. Join us on Tuesday 9 October at the Hilton Metropole for this unmissable celebration of the industry’s finest.

In addition, the Voltimum Smart Solutions Awards champion the installers, manufacturers and wholesalers leading the charge in the building technology market. Broadcaster and journalist Steph McGovern will be hosting the ceremony on 10 October at the Building Tech Live Hub.

Book your Construction Enquirer Awards tickets here

10. WHEN IT’S TIME TO UNWIND

The UK Construction Week Beer Festival, sponsored by Velux, is back with a few new additions for 2018. Along with the usual selection of cold beers, street food and live music, the Beer Festival will also play host to our very first Rockaoke night and a brand new Gin and Fizz bar. Furthermore, FIX Radio will be based at the heart of the Beer Festival, where they will be broadcasting live for the duration of the show. So swing by, wind down and have some fun.

11. THE TINY HOUSE OF THE FUTURE

It’s fair to say the Tiny House concept has been making big waves this year. Our future homes will almost certainly require a smaller footprint; with populations living in smaller buildings and sharing communal spaces to meet demand for space and affordability.

Following his success on Channel 4’s Amazing Spaces, Timber Expo has challenged Carwyn Lloyd Jones to build a timber frame Tiny House at this year’s event.

A carpenter by trade, Carwyn teaches courses on building with natural materials at the Centre for Alternative Technology, and will be running free-to-attend workshops live at the show.

Join Carwyn at Timber Expo, Hall 9. Places available on a first come, first served basis. No booking required.

12. MAKE IT BRUM

Back in August, secondary school students from across Birmingham joined Make:it-Brum – a community engagement collaboration between Intervention Architecture and Arup – for a series of seminars on architecture, engineering, construction, digital innovations and drawing. The goal: To create a pavilion concept that will be designed and built for UK Construction Week.

The Make:it Brum team are now developing the concept to turn it into reality! Follow their progress on Twitter @MakeitBrum and see it for yourself at the entrance to Hall 9.

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