Industry Events
BCA Stakeholder Forum – Tuesday 16th
September 2008
The fourth UK Cement Industry National Stakeholder Forum will be
held at Tarmac Buxton Lime and Cement’s Tunstead Works, Buxton,
Derbyshire. The Forum is an opportunity to review progress the
industry has made towards sustainable development over the past
year and to consider priorities for 2009.
The Forum will focus on key issues for our
national stakeholders, including the current development of a new,
integrated, sustainable construction strategy for cement and
concrete. This strategy is the first step in bringing closer
together the component parts of the concrete industry.
Party Conferences 2008
Labour Party Conference – Monday
22nd September 2008; Manchester. BCA, QPA and The
Concrete Centre are holding a joint fringe meeting with SERA
lunchtime on Monday 22nd September at the Novotel
Manchester Centre Hotel.
Conservative Party Conference – Sunday
28th September 2008; Birmingham. In addition to
the Labour Party Conference, BCA, QPA and The Concrete Centre will
also be holding a joint fringe meeting.
The proposed subject for the meetings will be
"Eco-Homes - A House Built of Straw". Each of the meetings will
provide an opportunity to explore key considerations and issues in
the development of eco-homes with politicians from both parties as
well as activists. The speaker on behalf of the cement and
concrete industries will be Mike Gilbert.
17th BCA Berthold Lubetkin Memorial
Lecture Memorial Lecture - Tuesday 14th October
2008; 1800 to 2000; London
This year the lecture is being presented by
FAT, otherwise known as Fashion, Architecture and Taste. FAT have
raised a few eyebrows amongst the architectural establishment. With
an international portfolio of projects which ranges from urban
design and master planning in the Netherlands to the design of
trailer homes for artists in Northern Scotland, FAT challenges both
our preconceptions and expectations. Eccentric yes. Flippant maybe.
But never dull.
To register please use the
following link
The BCA Berthold Lubetkin Memorial Lecture,
sponsored by The Concrete Centre, is a prestigious annual event to
remember the contribution of Berthold Lubetkin and is designed to
celebrate inspirational works by contemporary designers. Previous
speakers include Daniel LIbeskind, Rab Bennetts, Ken Shuttleworth,
Christos Passos from Zaha Hadid Architect, Professor Tony Hunt and
Santiago Calatrava.
House of Commons Reception – Wednesday
26th November 2008
BCA will be holding a House of Commons
Reception which will be hosted by Charlotte Atkins MP to launch
their annual publication
“Performance”. The reception will be an
opportunity to find out why cement and concrete are essential to UK
economic and social development; the progress the industry has
made towards sustainable development over the part year and
to highlight key priorities for 2009.
To contact us on any of the above
events please use the following email address :
info@bca.org.uk