• 11 Belgrave Road, Victoria
  A Multi-Award-Winning Net-Zero Redevelopment

  Tuesday 11th February 2025, 1800 for 1830 start

• AluK Design Studio, 5-11 Worship Street, London, EC2A 2BH

We are delighted to welcome a team from Eric Parry Architects, Max Fordham and Heyne Tillett Steel to provide an overview of the cutting-edge redevelopment of a late 1950s office building to meet the highest contemporary standards for sustainable and operational performance. 

Headline performance achievements for the redevelopment include achieving the UK’s first NABERS DFP score of 5.5 star, BREEAM Outstanding, WELL Platinum, Wiredscore Platinum and Smartscore Platinum.

11 Belgrave Road, Victoria, places a key focus on wellbeing, sustainability and user-centric design. Located less than a ten-minute walk from Victoria train station, the new office space serves the flourishing business community in the City of Westminster.

The completed project increases the floor area on site by 31% of the previous building and features enhanced community assets, with a publicly accessible café, gymnasium and co-working spaces for both commercial and community hire.

The project retained and repurposed an ambitious 35% of total built fabric already on site – including a large section of the concrete structure and foundations. This substantially reduces the lifetime embodied carbon emissions of the project, which has been designed to exceed the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge embodied carbon target by 38%.

Our Speakers

Lewis Benmore
Associate, Eric Parry Architects

Since graduating from the University of Dundee with a distinction, Lewis has worked on a wide variety of projects from concept to construction. In addition to 11 Belgrave Road this includes residential apartments at Chelsea Barracks, a mixed-use development for the Portman Estate in Mayfair, and a landscape-led masterplan for a new mental health hospital and university college at Warneford Park in Oxford.

Web: ericparryarchitects.co.uk

IG:    @ericparryarchitects

Dean Irvine
Partner, Max Fordham

With a master’s degree in engineering science from the University of Oxford, Dean has worked on a wide variety of building types from Oxbridge colleges and cultural buildings to retail spaces and new-build sports centres. As well as 11 Belgrave Road, he is currently working on an ambitious office redevelopment targeting NABERS in Dering Street, Mayfair, and a major sustainable office retrofit for Global Holdings Group.

Web: maxfordham.com

IG:  @maxfordhamllp

Tom Watson
Director, Heyne Tillett Steel

Tom has over 12 years’ experience in structural engineering and leads a team working on a large variety of projects and sectors. He enjoys the technical aspects of the job and takes great pleasure in finding the optimum detail that is both elegant and practical. He has recently gained more experience in designing with engineered timber for various commercial projects, including 11 Belgrave Road.

Web: hts.uk.com

IG:    @heynetillettsteel

References

Catch background information at:

Eric Parry Architects case study: 
ericparryarchitects.co.uk/projects/belgrave-road

Constructing Excellence SECBE Awards 2024 – Climate Action Award:
constructingexcellence.org.uk/11-belgrave-road-london-victoria-by-quadrum-global-with-bam

Quandrum Global, investor/developer’s portfolio:
quadrumglobal.com/portfolio/11-belgrave 

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LCEC members and non-members are all welcome

Please note that photographs and/or video will be taken during the event.

                        

• G4C & AtkinsRéalis Real-World Decarbonisation Series Launch
  Decarbonisation - A Challenge for the Built Environment
  Thursday 20th February 2025, 1800 - 2200

• AluK Design Studio, 5-11 Worship Street, London, EC2A 2BH
  
  

This event is organised by G4C - PLEASE REGISTER AT:
fienta.com/g4c-atkinsrealis-series-launch

G4C (Generation for Change) is the early career professional voice of the UK built environment industry, and an integral part of Constructing Excellence.

Join G4C and AtkinsRéalis for the first CPD session of 2025, focusing on the critical challenge of decarbonisation in the built environment. This engaging and interactive event will feature expert insights from the UK's top consultant, AtkinsRéalis, on climate resilience and the journey to net zero. Participants will tackle real-world decarbonisation challenges through innovative team games and have the opportunity to network with fellow industry professionals.

CPD Session: Decarbonisation - A Challenge for the Built Environment

Date: 20th February, London

Hosted by: G4C & AtkinsRéalis

Highlights:

- Expert Insights: Learn from the UK's top consultant, AtkinsRéalis, on climate resilience and net zero.
- Interactive Learning: Tackle real-world decarbonisation challenges through team games.
- Networking: Connect with industry professionals.

Join us for an engaging session with food and drinks provided!

This event is organised by G4C - PLEASE REGISTER AT: 
fienta.com/g4c-atkinsrealis-series-launch

                            

• Setting Sail at Saltdean
  Restoring 'One of the Seven Wonders of the English Seaside'

  Tuesday 11th March 2025, 1800 for 1830 start

• AluK Design Studio, 5-11 Worship Street, London, EC2A 2BH
  

Join us for an intriguing evening finding out about the award-winning restoration of Saltdean Lido, the only Grade II* listed lido in England, which was described by the 20th Century Society as “probably the most architecturally significant open-air pool in the country.”

Designed by Richard William Herbert Jones and opened in 1938, Saltdean Lido’s unique streamlined design, resembling an ocean liner at sea, epitomises the best elements of Britain’s Modernist movement. It captures perfectly the contemporaneous social aspirations of creating seaside architecture for the enjoyment of the masses.

Threatened with redevelopment into flats, the Lido has been saved by local residents and the Saltdean Lido Community Interest Company (SLCIC), who appointed RHP as architects for the building’s restoration in November 2020, in the midst of the Covid Pandemic.

Reimagining it as a year-round destination, the Lido was re-opened to great acclaim in April 2024 and offers activities ranging from co-working to dog swimming. The formerly derelict building now features a cafe, a library, an Art Deco restaurant and ballroom, a gym, a dance studio, managed workspace, a range of heritage exhibits and numerous community rooms.

The Lido was selected by English Heritage as “one of the Seven Wonders of the English Seaside” and, following its successful restoration, it will continue to be an outstanding example of UK lido design.

Our Speaker

Phillip Naylor BArch(Hons) DipArch RIBA
Director, RH Partnership Architects

Phillip has been a director with rhp architects since 2005 and is jointly responsible for the management of the Brighton office.

He is passionate about projects that bring real benefit to the widest range of people and as such is our director for a wide range of publicly funded projects working with various local authorities, each with complex user group arrangements and often conflicting requirements.

This work includes a masterplan at Itchen Valley Country Park, a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rated Waterside Centre, Phases 3, 4 & 5 of the Kings Road Arches restoration project on Brighton Seafront and, most recently, the Brighton Royal Estate Phase 2: Restoration of Pavilion Gardens.

Alongside this, Phillip is our director for the £8m restoration of Saltdean Lido, a commission won in competition during the Covid Pandemic.

Phillip will outline the backstory to this fascinating project, illustrating the Lido’s sad demise and the tremendous efforts undertaken by all involved that brought it back from the brink.

Web: rhpartnership.co.uk
X/T:   @RHPartnership

References

Catch background information at:

RH Partnership, Saltdean Lido case study: 
https://www.rhpartnership.co.uk/news/saltdean-lido-is-back

Saltdean Lido - Heritage:
https://www.saltdeanlido.co.uk/heritage 

Saltdean Lido - Restoration:
https://www.saltdeanlido.co.uk/restoration 

Social Media

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• LCEC Networking Breakfast
  ... a bustling and convivial start to your business day

  Tuesday 25th March 2025, 0800 to 0930

• The Happenstance, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX

• The nearest tube station = St Pauls
  

We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join fellow built environment professionals for a delicious buffet breakfast in the heart of the City.

As always, there are no long presentations and speeches, just the opportunity to build your connections with the Constructing Excellence community and to find out what is happening in the vibrant London market.

This event is free to members of LCEC; non-member registrations are charged £25 upon booking.

Outline Programme

08:00 - Registration & Networking
08:30 - Breakfast arrives
09:00 - Thank you and brief update on London Constructing Excellence Club
09:30 - Event closes.

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Registrations and Cancellations

Please book early, at least 3 days in advance of the breakfast, to allow us to make catering arrangements. Cancellations and refunds will not be allowed less than 3 days before the event, but substitutions may be made at any time.

                            

• Unlocking Action for Mental Health Support
  Why don’t we support mental health as we do physical health?

  Tuesday 8th April 2025, 1800 for 1830 start

• AluK Design Studio, 5-11 Worship Street, London, EC2A 2BH
  

Join us for an enlightening evening understanding the mental health challenge in our industry and some practical actions to improve it.

The appalling statistics of incidence of death by suicide in construction and prevalence of cases of high stress and anxiety has been known for decades.  Research into the causes of poor mental health has revealed the conditions that contribute to this unacceptable state of affairs.  However, the industry has not grasped the practical actions required to make the necessary changes.  First steps would be to establish rules to put mental health support on a par to those in place for physical health, and establish simple good practice to help create a create a culture for permanent change.  Why then are we stuck in a talking circle instead of taking action?

Our Speaker

Marc Preston BA (Hons) Dip Adj MRICS MCIOB MBACP
Director, Construction Dispute Experts Ltd

Phillip Marc Preston has over 40 years’ experience in the built environment sector, which includes working at Director level in tier‑1 contracting firms on complex major projects and, as a developer, delivering large-scale housing projects.

As CEO of Vertice Development Management and a Director of Construction Dispute Experts Ltd, Marc has gathered an experience and understanding of the particular challenges faced by SME operations.  Recently, Marc has been appointed to the RICS Consumer Home Improvements Adjudication panel.  Marc is also a non‑exec director of the Statom Group.

In 2012, Marc qualified as a psychotherapist/registered counsellor and gained extensive practice hours in an alcohol addiction agency.  Then, based upon his experience in the built environment sector, he established New Foundation Counselling, an employee-assistance programme service, to provide focussed psychotherapeutic counselling aimed at all people working in our sector.

Marc’s key achievements include:

- Author: Standard Form of Agreement for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- Contributor: BACP Good Practice in Action guide (GPiA No 55):
   Making the agreement in the counselling professions.
- Contributor: Be Collaborative Contract 2003: risk management.
- Campaigner: for mental health support provision to be included in JCT contracts.

W: verticedevelopmentmanagement.co.uk 
W: constructiondisputeexperts.co.uk
W: newfoundationcounselling.com

References

Catch background information at:

Construction News: Rules are the only option to stop the suicides, 31 January 2024: 
constructionnews.co.uk//long-reads/rules-are-the-only-option-to-stop-the-suicides

CIOB Research: Understanding Mental Health in the Built Environment:
ciob.org/industry/research/Understanding-Mental-Health-Built-Environment 

HSE Network: The Silent Struggle of Mental Health in Construction:
hse-network.com/the-silent-struggle-of-mental-health-in-construction

The Lighthouse Club (the construction charity): Mental Health:
lighthouseclub.org/mental-health

Social Media

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• LCEC Networking Breakfast
  ... a bustling and convivial start to your business day

  Tuesday 20th May 2025, 0800 to 0930

• The Happenstance, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX

• The nearest tube station = St Pauls
  

We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join fellow built environment professionals for a delicious buffet breakfast in the heart of the City.  We have brought the event forward to the third Tuesday of the month so that it does not clash with the school holidays.

As always, there are no long presentations and speeches, just the opportunity to build your connections with the Constructing Excellence community and to find out what is happening in the vibrant London market.

This event is free to members of LCEC; non-member registrations are charged £25 upon booking.

Outline Programme

08:00 - Registration & Networking
08:30 - Breakfast arrives
09:00 - Thank you and brief update on London Constructing Excellence Club
09:30 - Event closes.

Social Media

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Registrations and Cancellations

Please book early, at least 3 days in advance of the breakfast, to allow us to make catering arrangements. Cancellations and refunds will not be allowed less than 3 days before the event, but substitutions may be made at any time.

                            

• LCEC Networking Breakfast
  ... a bustling and convivial start to your business day

  Tuesday 22nd July 2025, 0800 to 0930

• The Happenstance, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX

• The nearest tube station = St Pauls
  

We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join fellow built environment professionals for a delicious buffet breakfast in the heart of the City.

As always, there are no long presentations and speeches, just the opportunity to build your connections with the Constructing Excellence community and to find out what is happening in the vibrant London market.

This event is free to members of LCEC; non-member registrations are charged £25 upon booking.

Outline Programme

08:00 - Registration & Networking
08:30 - Breakfast arrives
09:00 - Thank you and brief update on London Constructing Excellence Club
09:30 - Event closes.

Social Media

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Registrations and Cancellations

Please book early, at least 3 days in advance of the breakfast, to allow us to make catering arrangements. Cancellations and refunds will not be allowed less than 3 days before the event, but substitutions may be made at any time.

                            

• LCEC Networking Breakfast
  ... a bustling and convivial start to your business day

  Tuesday 23rd September 2025, 0800 to 0930

• The Happenstance, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX

• The nearest tube station = St Pauls
  

We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join fellow built environment professionals for a delicious buffet breakfast in the heart of the City.

As always, there are no long presentations and speeches, just the opportunity to build your connections with the Constructing Excellence community and to find out what is happening in the vibrant London market.

This event is free to members of LCEC; non-member registrations are charged £25 upon booking.

Outline Programme

08:00 - Registration & Networking
08:30 - Breakfast arrives
09:00 - Thank you and brief update on London Constructing Excellence Club
09:30 - Event closes.

Social Media

Please post about the event using:  #lcecNB  #lNetworkingBreakfast  #ConstructingExcellence 

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Registrations and Cancellations

Please book early, at least 3 days in advance of the breakfast, to allow us to make catering arrangements. Cancellations and refunds will not be allowed less than 3 days before the event, but substitutions may be made at any time.

                            

• LCEC Networking Breakfast
  ... a bustling and convivial start to your business day

  Tuesday 25th November 2025, 0800 to 0930

• The Happenstance, 10 Paternoster Row, London EC4M 7DX

• The nearest tube station = St Pauls
  

We are delighted to invite you, once again, to join fellow built environment professionals for a delicious buffet breakfast in the heart of the City.

As always, there are no long presentations and speeches, just the opportunity to build your connections with the Constructing Excellence community and to find out what is happening in the vibrant London market.

This event is free to members of LCEC; non-member registrations are charged £25 upon booking.

Outline Programme

08:00 - Registration & Networking
08:30 - Breakfast arrives
09:00 - Thank you and brief update on London Constructing Excellence Club
09:30 - Event closes.

Social Media

Please post about the event using:  #lcecNB  #lNetworkingBreakfast  #ConstructingExcellence 

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Registrations and Cancellations

Please book early, at least 3 days in advance of the breakfast, to allow us to make catering arrangements. Cancellations and refunds will not be allowed less than 3 days before the event, but substitutions may be made at any time.