Newcastle Residential Hub Meeting

‘Enabling Housing Delivery’

11^th April – 2pm – 6.30pm

Newcastle University, Barbara Strange Teaching Centre, Newcastle, NE1 8QB

Residential Hub provides a valuable opportunity for Northern England with a programme of influential speakers, engaging, topical content and a networking space for organisations within the housing sector to connect and collaborate, with regional information and knowledge sharing.

14:00 Registrations

14:15 Welcome

14:25 Buildoffsite Housing Hub
14:45 Brian Ham, Home Group – Capabilities & Guiding Principles for Selecting Offsite Solutions
15:00 Speaker to be confirmed
15:15 Brendan Geraghty, GTA – How to accelerate housing using good design solutions that suit the use of offsite construction
15:30 Michael O’Doherty, One Public Estate – Opportunities & Challenges of manufactured housing
15:45 Afternoon Tea & Networking
16:30 Political Overview

16:45 Panel Debate: Collaboration. Encouraging & exploring Buildoffsite’s role as enabler of collaborative projects through Innovate UK & the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
17:15 Open Discussion

17:45 Other Business

18:00 Drinks & Networking
19:00 Dinner (£30 per head for non-members)