Speakers

He is now a non-executive, strategic advisor and consultant. His NED and strategic advisory work focuses on long-term strategy and major programmes. His consultancy work has included advising the French Government on adopting a more commercial approach to property management, collaborating across the built environment sector to align data standards, supporting the Cabinet Office in developing new guidance for all government departments on condition and backlog maintenance, and writing new estate strategy and asset management policy for NHS England.

From 2019 until 2023 he was appointed as the government’s Champion for Modern Methods of Construction in Housebuilding. In 2023 Mark was appointed by the Department for Education to lead the Arms Length Body (ALB) review of the Construction & Engineering Construction Industry Training Boards which was published in January 2025. Mark was appointed as a member of the Construction Skills Mission Board and as industry sponsor for the People & Skills workstream of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) in 2025. He is a non-executive board director of the Future Homes Hub, chairs the Built Environment Futures Assembly and the NHBC’s steering group for their multi-skills site hubs. Mark is an honorary professor at The University of Salford’s School of Built Environment and holds honorary doctorates from the University of The Built Environment and the University of Wolverhampton. In 2021 was the recipient of the CIOB President’s Award in recognition of his work driving long term change into the construction industry and in 2025 he was awarded an honorary fellowship of the CIOB.

A RIBA Chartered Architect, Chartered Project Professional, MAPM, and qualified UK Government Gateway Reviewer, Lisa combines deep delivery expertise with strong policy leadership. She is a graduate of the prestigious Cranfield University School of Management, completing the Leadership College for Government’s Project Leadership Programme, which has further strengthened her capability to lead complex, system-wide transformation. Her career spans senior roles across the public sector including with the City of Edinburgh Council, HMRC, and the Scottish Government’s Estates and Transformation functions. Lisa is widely recognised for building and sustaining high-performing, multidisciplinary teams grounded in collaboration, empowered professional judgement, psychological safety and disciplined delivery—qualities essential for operating in complex governmental environments. She currently leads development of the Scottish Government’s New Delivery Model for Social Infrastructure, a transformative approach reshaping how Scotland plans, procures and delivers major public projects. Her leadership is underpinned by a commitment to the “golden thread of resilience”, informing her approach to governance, procurement policy and system reform.

Peter leads SFT's work encompassing long-term strategy development across infrastructure sectors, structuring and managing multi-billion-pound investment programmes and making the best use of existing assets in the transition to a net zero economy. Peter is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

As part of the senior management team at IIMBE, Dave leads the delivery of BIM and Information Management across major projects and provides strategic advisory services to clients across the AECO sector. His work focuses on helping organisations unlock greater value from their assets and programmes through clear, robust, and outcome-driven information strategies. Dave is known for his practical, collaborative approach to digital transformation. He works closely with clients to maximise the benefits of BIM, ensuring information is structured, accessible, and used effectively to improve decision-making, enhance performance, and support long-term sustainability. In addition to his work at IIMBE, Dave serves as Head of Networks and Volunteers at nima, where he plays an active role in aligning the various BIM/IM groups and regions along with shaping industry standards, promoting best practice, and fostering cross-sector collaboration. Through both industry leadership and hands-on project delivery, Dave is committed to advancing digital maturity, improving safety and quality, and supporting a more efficient and innovative construction sector.

As a Director at Atelier Ten, Sarah leads the delivery of sustainability and environmental services across a wide range of projects. She works closely with multidisciplinary teams to optimise building performance, ensuring that environmental considerations are embedded from concept through to operation. Sarah specialises in low-energy, low-carbon building services design and has played a key role in shaping strategies to achieve net zero across both new developments and existing building stock. Her experience includes working with historic and complex buildings, where balancing heritage considerations with modern performance standards presents unique challenges. She is Vice Chair of CIBSE Scotland, Scottish Chair of the Association of Consulting Engineers, a STEM Ambassador and an advocate for women in engineering.

Andrew previously founded AM Bid, growing it into one of the UK’s premier bid and tender consultancies before successfully exiting the business in 2023. Since then, he has continued building and advising high-growth businesses while remaining at the forefront of innovation within the bidding profession. Recognised internationally for his contribution to the industry, Andrew was awarded APMP Global Thought Leader of the Year in 2022 — one of the profession’s highest honours. Combining entrepreneurial experience with frontline bid leadership, Andrew delivers engaging, commercially focused sessions that challenge conventional thinking and provide practical strategies audiences can immediately apply.

He is currently engaged in providing procurement advice to over 40 construction organisations ranging from contract reviews, tender negotiations, supporting management teams on projects and is also highly experienced in JCT and SBCC Contracts and NEC 4. He has contributed to a number of organisations involved in the construction industry and is a Past Chairman of the Scottish Building Contracts Committee and Past Chairman of the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has been involved in the Construction Industry Collaborative Voice for a number of years, as joint chair of their Procurement and Commercial Group. He is an advocate for collaboration in the industry and following a 4 year spell as Chair of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition, he was appointed as the UK president. The theme of his presentation at the Construction Summit will be about issues that are currently arising in the industry that are having a serious impact on payment and cash flow and he will identify measures that contractors can take to improve the way in which they manage the commercial management of contracts. He acts as an advisor to a number of trade organisations in the UK and is a regular contributor to Newsletters and frequently writes blogs on industry issues. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects, in 2017, and was presented in 2022, with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Scottish Electrical Contractors Association. He is a highly experienced Adjudicator, Arbitrator and Expert Witness.

Bill has had a successful career as a consultant to small and medium-sized businesses and not for profits, on strategic planning and problem solving. Early in his career he was a healthcare administrator for thirteen years. He continues to operate the family fifth generation cattle operation and recently has sold high quality embryos to cattle operations in Scotland. His international experience has included Scotland, Russia and Kuwait as consultant and mentor. He is a previous speaker at the Scottish Construction Summit and speaks in the topic of strategy development in time of uncertainty, transition, innovation, and cultural shifts. Bill is a want to be futurist who focuses on today’s challenges and distraction. In addition to his home in the United States, Bill also has a home in Scotland.

With over 20 years’ experience across engineering, research and consultancy, Doug works at the intersection of construction pipelines, labour demand and skills planning. He played a leading role in the development of the CITB Labour Forecasting Tool and has contributed to national and regional forecasting through the Construction Skills Network (CSN) with CITB and Experian. Doug has led and supported labour and skills analysis for major programmes and clients including High Speed 2, Heathrow, Network Rail, NISTA, Tideway, and the Nuclear New Build programme. His work spans housing, infrastructure and the energy transition, focusing on how programmes translate into occupational demand, productivity and training requirements. Doug is also actively involved in shaping industry and policy thinking. He served as Deputy Chair of the Analytical Consortium for the Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy (TIES) Living Lab (Innovate UK and the Department for Transport), is an accredited researcher with the Office for National Statistics and contributes to national discussions through the Construction Leadership Forum’s Pipeline Working Group and the Department for Business and Trade’s Consultative Committee on Construction Industry Statistics. More recently, his work has centred on the workforce implications of net zero and large-scale retrofit, including place-based analysis at regional and local authority level. This includes supporting public bodies and industry to understand not just the scale of demand, but when and where it will arise, and what that means for delivery. Doug brings an evidence-based perspective to a simple but critical question facing the sector: not just what do we plan to build but do we have the right workforce to deliver it?

Philip recently completed his PhD at the University of Strathclyde, where his research focused on bio-cementation, carbonate precipitation and circular chemical processes for low-carbon construction materials. This research formed the technical foundation for Ureaka’s approach to mineralising CO₂ into cement-relevant products and creating scalable new SCM supply chains from materials that are currently underused or downcycled. Ureaka has received support through Innovate UK ICURe, Scottish Enterprise’s High Growth Spinout Programme, IBioIC and Strathclyde Inspire. The company won the Sustainable Construction and Infrastructure track at Hello Tomorrow 2026, one of the world’s largest deep-tech competitions, and has also been recognised by the Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards, the Stephen Young Entrepreneurship Award and Tencent’s CarbonX programme. Philip is passionate about translating academic research into practical industrial technologies that reduce emissions, create value from waste and accelerate the transition to lower-carbon construction

His teaching focuses on equipping students and professionals with the skills required to respond to the sector’s ongoing digital transformation. His research explores information and communication technologies in construction and facilities management, with particular interests in digital systems, and AI-enabled decision support across the built environment.

She has extensive experience in working with social housing landlords and delivering customer-focused business development plans, with a particular track record in the public sector. Alongside her role at Procast, Kerry also serves as a Non-Executive Director for a Registered Social Landlord in Scotland, providing valuable insight into governance, housing, and community-focused organisations. At the Scottish Housing Summit, Kerry will be taking a closer look at the direction of travel for sustainable retrofitting.

With almost two decades of industry experience, she has held senior roles including Director of Planning at Homes for Scotland, and Senior Planning Manager at Mactaggart & Mickel, bringing extensive expertise in navigating planning systems, tackling housing challenges, and securing consents. In her current role with the family-run housebuilder Liz leads a team to secure land and planning permissions across the central belt for affordable housing sites developed under the AS Homes banner and private developments for Briar Homes.

Before founding Lochlie, Douglas held senior commercial positions with one of Scotland’s largest contractors as well as international construction companies. Recognising an opportunity to build a more progressive, client-focused contractor, he established Lochlie to challenge traditional industry practice through quality, innovation, and long-term relationships. As Managing Director, Douglas leads strategy, commercial performance, governance, innovation, sustainability, and people development. Under his leadership, Lochlie has diversified into specialist markets, embraced digital transformation and artificial intelligence, achieved record growth beyond £10 million turnover, and set a bold ambition to reach £20 million turnover by 2030 while becoming Scotland’s Contractor and Employer of Choice.

He earned his Ph.D. in Construction Project Management and has authored over 25 peer-reviewed articles. Scott advises on several UK and International leadership groups on innovation, skills and health safety actions. He is a Fellow of the CIOB and the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (IKE).

In that time, he has advised on housing developments of all scales, types and tenures, from new settlements to urban infill to single homes in the countryside. Gordon has a particular interest in the delivery of housing, how we plan for current and future housing need and demand, and how policy can help or hinder.

Maisie has worked on numerous, prestigious, conservation projects, including the Robert Burns Ellisland Museum, and she is Project Architect for the retrofit of two 1960’s social-housing towers in Edinburgh. This groundbreaking project, currently approaching construction, is a placemaking and energy retrofit which utilises LETI fabric-first principals to improve space-heating efficiency. Maisie’s interests in retrofit, restoration and community engagement positions her as a forward-thinking Architect committed to sustainable and socially responsible design. Maisie was awarded the RSAArchitecture Prize in 2023 while exhibiting at the RSA New Contemporaries.

His passion for embedding low-energy design into all projects has made him a trusted advisor for Passivhaus projects and meeting net-zero carbon commitments to deliver positive outcomes for residents and clients alike. Carl also brings a breadth of experience from previous work at CDA and 7N Architects on a diverse range of residential, commercial and adaptive re-use projects, including the notable Knab Masterplan in Lerwick. Carl’s knowledge of Revit and BIM protocols is also invaluable to the Edinburgh studio.