Our immense gratitude to everyone that helped us kick off our newest event The AUDE Showcase - including the excellent team at Nottingham Venues and indeed to all at the University of Nottingham for making us so welcome. This is a new format for us giving an opportunity for AUDE members to hear more about the major challenges we all face and to get a sense from AUDE's subject leads on the projects we are currently working on via a series of workshops.
Diana Beech and Lewis Cooper for leading our plenary session 'System Reboot' in which we've looked at shifting policy on all of tertiary education, driven in part by a new government, but also by demographic change, and changing student expectation among other things. HE can be assertive about its ability to contribute to new missions around public health and wellbeing, safer streets and community cohesion, leadership of the green transition, regional economic growth, and opportunity for all. Estates teams need to be ever better at 'sweating the assets'. Lifelong learning means our estates need to be dynamic and able to shift to involve and inspire the 18 year old undergraduate, but also the 30 or 40 years old looking for CPD. What is on the cards in case of rationalisation of estates, or centralisation of back office functions? How do we manage the impact on staff and students, and including around wellbeing?
Thank you to all of the leads of our special interest groups who explained more about their work and specialist activities at the event. In all cases these groups are here to help you with deep dives into their specialisms, and they are keen to meet with you if you'd like to contribute to AUDE's work in these areas. We heard of many great projects in progress, including our Strategic FM Group's upcoming benchmarking survey on cleaning which will be coming this autumn; the Capital Group's Capital Costs Database which will shortly be renewed and provided on the AUDE platform for access to all; and our Sustainability Advisory Group's new Decarbonisation Guide which published recently and is available from the AUDE website. In all cases the message is 'Get involved'.
A special mention to our supporters for this event - Bond Bryan, Helvar and all our exhibitors without your support this event could not happen.
The slides and links from the plenary and the workshops, that have been shared with us, can be found below.
Networking drinks reception.
Plenary 1:
Lewis Cooper, Director of Public Affairs and Campaigns, Independent Commission on the College of the Future
Dr Diana Beech, CEO, London Higher
Speakers:
Robert Kilpatrick, Assistant Director Development and Operations, University of Strathclyde
Anita Edson, Director of Estates, Cardiff University
David Hall, Director of Projects, University of Glasgow
Richard Nash, Membership Services Manager, BSRIA
Workshop 2: "Digital Campus – Are you taking advantage of two key applications at your disposal?”
Speakers:
Nikita Sobolev, GIS Consultant, Esri Transform your campus through the power of spatial
Siva Koppula, Digital Twin Customer Adoption Specialist , Autodesk
Matt Hoper, Data Manager (Estates), University of Birmingham
Brett Plant, Head of Estates Information and Systems, University of Warwick
Paul Eyden, BIM Manager, University of Warwick
Speakers:
Dr Roddy Yarr, Director of Sustainability, University of Glasgow
Andy Shepperd, Associate Director, Sustainability, Arup
Speakers:
Dr Hiral Patel, Lecturer in Architecture, Director of Engagement, Cardiff University Fiona Duggan, Director, FiD
Chaired by:
Helen Wallace, Assistant Director of Estates -Space, infrastructure & Digital, University of Exeter and Scott Lloyd, Senior Assistant Registrar Space Management & Timetabling University of Warwick, Joint Chairs AUDE Space Management Group
Workshop 5: Don’t be THAT person….Exploring lived experiences, bias and (mis)understanding
Workshop discussion. No slides available.
Speakers: Claire Jagger, Associate Director of Organisational Development, University of Nottingham
Stephen Wells, Director of Estates & Facilities, University of East Anglia
Workshop 6: Career Pathways - Being prepared for future opportunities.
Panel discussion. No slides available.
Speakers:
Amanda Pettingill, Deputy Director of Estates & Facilities, University of Nottingham
Jon Belfield, Customer Experience Manager, Edge Hill University
Facilitator:
Paul Davis, Deputy Director of Estates and Facilities, Birmingham City University
Speaker: Sarah Rowe, Strategic Director – Students and Education, King’s College London
Workshop 8: Procurement, Risks and Challenges in the current Construction Market
Speaker: Andy Dedman, Regional Managing Director, Currie & Brown
Speaker: James Roberts, Market Intelligence Director and UK Chief Economist, Avison Young UK
