BIOGRAPHIES
Construction Summit - 16th May 2012, DCLG, Eland House
Richard Hill
Executive Director, Programmes and Deputy Chief Executive
Homes and Communities Agency
Richard Hill is the Executive Director - Programmes and Deputy Chief
Executive of the Homes and Communities Agency. He joined the Agency from
the Housing Corporation, where he was Director - Investment.
At the Housing Corporation, Richard successfully steered two investment
rounds of the National Affordable Housing Programme during that period. His
previous roles include Head of Strategy and Policy at the NHSU and Head of
Policy and Public Affairs at the New Opportunities Fund. Since 2003, he has also been a Fellow of the
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Paul Morrell
Chief Construction Adviser
Department for Business Innovation and Skills and Cabinet Office
Paul Morrell is the Government’s Chief Construction Adviser, with a brief to
champion a more coordinated approach to affordable, sustainable
construction. He took up the post in November 2009 after retiring from Davis
Langdon, where he had worked since joining from University in 1971,
becoming a Partner in 1976 and Senior Partner in 1999.
He is a Fellow of the RICS and of the ICE, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA,
and served as a Commissioner on CABE from 2000 to 2008, finishing as
Deputy Chairman.
Paul received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Construction Industry at the 2007 Building
Awards; and was awarded an OBE for services to architecture and the built environment in the 2009 New
Year Honours list.
In Government, Paul chairs the Cabinet Office’s Construction Clients Board, and is on the board of the
Major Projects Authority. He also lead the Innovation and Growth Team study into low carbon
construction, and now serves on the Government/industry Green Construction Board.
Away from the office, enthusiasms include sailing, theatre, opera and contemporary dance. He is on the
Board of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the Project Board of Tate Modern, and he chairs the
Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
Shelagh Grant
Chief Executive
The Housing Forum
Shelagh is Chief Executive of The Housing Forum, a respected cross-industry
membership based organisation for the complete housing construction and
renewal industry which builds on the strengths of partnering. The Housing
Forum has a wide membership drawn from House Builders, Developers,
Contractors, Housing Associations, ALMOs, Specialists Consultants,
Manufacturers and Suppliers.
The Housing Forum is known for its Working Group Reports ’Everybody
Needs a Home’ (2011) and ‘Turning the Corner’ (2010), focused and relevant
networking, and Best Practice solutions.
Shelagh has a national reputation in housing and regeneration, with over 20
years wide and varied experience in the sector. She has substantial
experience of the operation of different housing markets having worked in senior positions for the City of
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and Gateshead Councils. Shelagh was Director of Community Services at
Peterborough City Council where she held responsibility for housing, regeneration and culture, and led the
stock transfer to Cross Keys Homes. Shelagh is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and a
member of the UK Housing Panel.
Stephen Teagle
Managing Director, Affordable Housing and Regeneration Division
Galliford Try
Galliford Try is one of the UK’s leading contracting, housebuilding and
regeneration businesses with a turnover of circa £1.5bn and operates
across all construction sectors. During his time at Galliford Try, Stephen
has overseen substantial growth in the Group’s presence in the Affordable
Housing and Regeneration market and the development of major publicly
commissioned regeneration schemes through its housebuilding subsidiary,
Linden Homes.
Stephen has over 20 years’ experience in the regeneration and housing
sector. Having started his career as a quantity surveyor working in London
on estate renewal projects, he moved into the housing sector working in
both London and the South west.
Before joining Galliford Try, he was Group Director of Investment at Devon and Cornwall Housing where
he was also on the board of Advantage South West, a Partnership vehicle for supply-side efficiencies.
Stephen now works across the UK and is involved in a wide range of HCA, RP and local authority
commissioned regeneration schemes. Stephen is a Board Member of the Housing Forum, a member of
the RICS Residential Housing Affordability & Supply Group and has recently been a member of the DCLG
Self Build Implementation Group.
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Paul King
Chief Executive Officer
UKGreen Building Council
Paul became the first CEO of the UK-GBC in May 2007. Previously he
worked for WWF-UK where he was Director of Campaigns, and formerly
Campaign Director for WWF's One Million Sustainable Homes campaign
and co-founder of One Planet Living ®. Paul is Chairman of the Zero
Carbon Hub and is a member of the Zero Carbon Homes 2016 Task Force.
He Chairs the Buildings Working Group of the Green Construction Board, is
a member of the Technology Strategy Board’s Low Impact Building
Programme Steering Group and the Igloo Regeneration Sustainability
Committee. He was previously a member of the Low Carbon Construction
IGT, Sustainable Buildings Task Group, Code for Sustainable Homes
Steering Group and the Egan Review of Skills for Sustainable
Communities. On an international level he is a Board member of the World
Green Building Council and Chairs the WorldGBC Europe Network
Steering Committee.
Paul lives in Shropshire with his partner and two young sons.
Terrie Alafat
Director Housing Growth and Affordable Housing
Department of Communities and Local Government
Terrie has been working in local and central government for 25 years
covering various housing policies including Homelessness,
Supporting People, Affordable Housing and Housing Supply.
Terrie is now Director of Housing Growth and Affordable Housing in
the Department of Communities and Local Government, with
responsibility for housing supply including affordable housing,
strategy and markets policy, regulation and sponsorship of the
Homes and Communities Agency, social housing reform and private
rented sector policy.
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Richard Connolly
Group Director
Development at Devon & Cornwall Housing (DCH)
DCH is a diverse, dynamic and expanding housing group with 19,200 homes.
Richard has worked for housing associations in London and the south west as
well as the London region of the former Housing Corporation. Richard is also
Managing Director of Westco Properties, the speculative development subsidiary
of DCH, providing substantial income to support new affordable homes.
Westco has successfully built a track record of speculative development over the
past 12 years, becoming a valued joint venture partner to house builders and
gaining significant expertise in providing a broad range of housing products, innovative mixed use projects
and regeneration.
DCH and Westco have significant new development programmes. Having completed 560 new affordable
and 80 open market homes in 2011/12 alone, the group is developing a further 1,850 new affordable and
750 open market homes over the next five years.
DCH also leads Partnership South West, a consortium of 9 providers with an HCA Affordable Homes
Programme of 1,500 affordable homes for 2011/15. PSW built over 4,000 homes under the 2008/11 HCA
programme, investing over £0.5 billion into the local economy.
Richard Ogden MBE
Chairman
Buildoffsite
Richard has had a long and distinguished career in the construction sector,
particularly working with clients and developers. His employment has included
Balfour Kilpatrick Industries, British Rail, British Transport Hotels, Ladbroke
Entertainments, McDonald’s Restaurants UK Ltd (1980-2002) and McDonald’s
Europe Ltd (2002-2003).
McDonald’s Restaurants UK Ltd pioneered the use of modular construction
techniques for their edge of town retail outlets.
Richard started with
McDonald’s as project manager on Restaurant 50 progressing to senior PM
and establishing the first Regional Office in Birmingham.
He became
Construction Manager for National Development Program and Co-Chair of UK Development Strategy.
Ultimately he became Vice-President/ Construction Director responsible for Construction Project
Management, Architecture, Design and Equipment.
Richard was Chairman of European Construction Team and Member of European Development Board as
well as Director of Advanced Building Systems (USA). He was recognised with the International Award of
Excellence in 1990 and the Poucher Award in 1994.
Richard spent a lot of his private life encouraging others to look at offsite techniques for themselves. He
enjoys working with other like-minded people, sharing opportunities for best practice. He was a founder
member of the Construction Round Table and member of the Movement for Innovation (M4I).
Since moving on from McDonalds’s in 2003, Richard has been an independent consultant, working for a
number of organisations, including Simons Group Ltd , acumen 7, DfeS, Buildoffsite
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Alan Turner
Chairman
Supply Chain Management Group
Alan is Chairman of the Supply Chain Management Group. The Group is a
consortium of three London Boroughs which was set up to introduce
collaboration between Clients, their appointed Contractors and their Supply
Chains.
He has held posts relating to Stock investment strategy, programme
delivery and procurement with three London Local Authorities and a major
Housing Association.
In the last 6 months Alan has been working with the Cabinet Office as part
of a Task Group looking at the Government’s Construction Strategy.
Simon Rawlinson
Partner, Head of Strategic Research and Insight
EC Harris LLP
Simon heads EC Harris’ multi-disciplinary Strategic Research and Insight
team. The team is tasked with delivering evidence-based insight and
Thought Leadership as an integral part of the Built Asset Consultancy
service.
Simon has 15 years experience in construction and built environment
research and innovation and previously was Head of Research and
Professional Development at Davis Langdon. He chairs the research
committee of the British Council for Offices (BCO) and is a member of the
CIC Executive Board. Prior to his career in research and innovation, Simon
practiced as a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with multi-disciplinary
consultants BDP.
Simon is a member of the core group of the Government-led BIM strategy
group and leads the legal and commercial work stream.
Simon’s involvement in BIM and collaborative working dates back to the Teamwork 2000 initiative, where
he was a Board Director. Subsequently Simon sat on the steering group of the Avanti initiative and also
on the UK Board of buildingSMART. More recently he has collaborated with Causeway Technologies on
the development of the BIMMeasure tool and helped establish the RICS BIM working group.
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Lynne Sullivan OBE
sustainableBYdesign
RIBA, ARB, FRSA
Lynne Sullivan is a practising Architect and founder of sustainableBYdesign,
an architecture and design practice born from the design arm of Inbuilt which
she joined as Design Director in 2008. Lynne was previously Sustainability
Director for 9 years at Broadway Malyan, and for 10 years Associate Director
at ECD Architects, which pioneered an energy- and environment-conscious
approach to design. As Project Architect she has been responsible for a
number of housing schemes which have received Housing Design Awards,
and her practice were finalists in all 2010-2012 BRE Passivhaus housing
Competitions. Notably, she was winner of the UK's first Zero CO2 housing
competition and Architect of one of four finalists in the UK's first Code 6 Carbon
Challenge for a zero carbon community at Hanham Hall, Bristol.
Lynne has been a Member of the Government’s Building Regulations Advisory
Committee since 2002, leading on sustainability and energy efficiency, and was a member of the Zero
Carbon Hub’s 2009 taskgroup for the UK’s Fabric Energy Efficiency Standard for Homes. Lynne also
chaired the Expert Panel for the Scottish Government whose report “A Low Carbon Building Standards
Strategy for Scotland” was published in 2007. She was awarded an OBE for services to Architecture in
2011, and is a member of the Government’s Green Construction Board.
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