Delivering future-ready estates: engineering insight from Curtins, AUDE Supplier of the Year 2026 - AUDE Awards Webinar Series

Title: Delivering future-ready estates: engineering insight from Curtins, AUDE Supplier of the Year 2026 - AUDE Awards Webinar Series
Date: Tuesday 2 June 2026
Time: 12:00 - 12:45

Join us to hear from the 2026 winners of the AUDE Supplier of the Year Award, Curtins.

Synopsis: 

AUDE’s Supplier of the Year 2026, engineering consultancy, Curtins brings extensive experience supporting 74 universities in delivering high-performing, future-ready estates. This session will share practical insights from across the sector, including flagship projects such as Teesside University’s BREEAM Outstanding BIOS facility, to address the evolving challenges facing estates teams.

Andy Buckley and Stephen Beggs will explore how universities can respond to pressures around funding, compliance, decarbonisation, and estate performance through a joined-up, engineering-led approach. Focusing on eight core areas: funding, compliance, estate decarbonisation, masterplanning, digital estate, envelope, space optimisation, and public realm, Curtins will demonstrate how these can be unlocked to deliver more resilient, efficient and adaptable campuses.

Reasons to attend:

• Learn how to tackle today’s estates challenges with a joined‑up, engineering‑led approach: Gain practical insight into how universities can respond to funding constraints, compliance pressures, decarbonisation targets and estate performance demands through integrated planning and delivery.

• Benefit from real-world examples and sector-wide experience: Hear lessons drawn from Curtins’ work with 74 universities, including flagship projects such as Teesside University’s BREEAM Outstanding BIOS facility, and understand what works in practice across diverse campus settings.

• Discover actionable strategies across eight core estates priorities: Explore how focus areas including masterplanning, digital estates, space optimisation, building envelope and public realm can be unlocked to create more resilient, efficient and future‑ready campuses.

Speakers:

Stephen Beggs BSc (Hons) CEng MICE is Business Unit Director in Curtins’ Bristol office, leading a Civil & Structural engineering team and supporting the delivery of Higher Education projects. Stephen is CARE Accredited and leads Curtins’ national approach to carbon reduction, with a focus on embodied carbon across university estates. With over 30 years’ experience, he has delivered estate transformation projects from feasibility through to construction, including work with the University of Bristol and University of Reading. Stephen is also active in promoting sustainable development within the Higher Education sector.

Andy Buckley BSc (Hons) CEng MICE IMIStructE is responsible for leading the Civil and Structures Team in Curtins’ Leeds office as Director and sits on Curtins Higher Education Steering Group. Andy is a former board member for the JBM and is heavily involved in developing relationships between universities and industry, with significant experience of projects linked to estate transformation programmes, from feasibility through to construction. Andy has also been Framework Manager on University Frameworks including University of Leeds, Huddersfield, Sheffield, and Leeds Beckett.