Ministry of Justice and National Offender Management Service present at Prison Planning, Design and Development Conference

With recent announcement of MoJ spending cut on new prison planning and £1.3 billion capital investment in redevelopment of existing prisons, the UK Prison Construction Industry is due to go through radical reform to emphasize on prisoner rehabilitation and shift to redevelopment. To address this, Construction IQ has confirmed the latest speaker faculty and agenda for the Prison Planning, Design and Development 2010 conference, taking place 7th - 8th December 2010 at Kingsway Hall Hotel, London.

Keynoted speakers confirmed include Terry Stocks, Head of Construction Delivery, Ministry of Justice and Nicola Lowit, Head of Strategy and Programme, National Offender Management Service. Mr. Stocks will be leading a session presenting a lean thinking construction philosophy to support and maintain accurate scheduling and reduce cost in the current construction environment. Ms. Lowit, leads on national strategy for prison and probation estates, will follow up the government insight into the future custodial industry, analyse current working prisons and prospective outlook for prisons as well as drive forward the rehabilitating.

The entire agenda revolves around prison planning, design and development for rehabilitation and sustainability, and the event provides a platform for discussing:
• Innovative prefabrication to reduce prison cost and construction time
• Design plans that facilitate rehabilitation and the leading the market updates
• Proposed changes to the BREEAM Assessment in environmental standards and the impacts on construction companies
• Planning best practice to avoid onsite oversights

Terry Stocks and Nicola Lowit will be joined by the rest of the speaker faculty, which includes:
• Siân James, Member of Parliament - Justice Committee, House of Parliament
• Martin Townsend, Director, BREEAM
• Andreas Alexiou, Association Director of Architecture, TPS Consult
• Hunter Hardy, Architecture Department Director, W.R. Dunn & Co Ltd
• Frazer Bufton, Director of Architecture, HLN Architects
• Hunter Hardy, Architectural Department Director, W.R. Dunn & Co Ltd

For further details on the conference and additional relevant content, please view the event agenda at www.prisonplanninganddevelopment.com. The Construction Professionals Networking and Events LinkedIn group is open for membership and discussion, and updates are available by following Construction IQ on Twitter.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Yun Shi | IQPC International, 2nd Floor, 129 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1JZ | Tel: +44 20 7368 9300

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