Placemaking Through Regeneration

Today’s podcast revisits our Placemaking Through Regeneration event recently held in partnership with the CIOB.  Hosted by Howells in the heart of Digbeth our sold-out event featured some of some of the city’s leading business leaders, visionaries and construction and development champions who are helping to shape the city’s skyline. As the city and regions grow, so must the communities within them. On today's podcast we explore the importance of regeneration from Great Charles Street to One Centenary Way. The session will focus on what needs to happen within the built environment sector to enhance and create communities through major regeneration projects across the region.  Event Chair: Sandi Rhys Jones OBE – Immediate Past President of The Chartered Institute of Building Panellists: Dav Bansal - Partner - Howells Alison Kilby – Associate Director and Midlands Workplace Advisory Lead at Arup. Selina Mason - Director of Masterplanning & Strategic Design - Lendlease Tom Wraight MCIOB - Regional Director – Careys All our guests today play a key role in placemaking across the city, and we will hear from Dav, Selina, Tom and Alison about the importance of placemaking in master planning and regeneration, from Smithfield to Paradise Birmingham and what needs to happen within the Building Brum events are made possible thanks to all of the support from the Building Brum partners: reality capture and point cloud modelling specialists ScanTech Digital,  Solus, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of commercial floor and wall tiles, APIC UK Limited, West Bromwich based Architectural Glazing specialists, Eh Smith Architectural Solutions - Brick and Facade specialists and Sunbelt Rentals with over 1,500,000 items of equipment- they are the largest providers of equipment hire in the UK, Communications and PR Specialists Cavendish, Civil engineering and construction contractor Careys and Arup a global collective of designers, engineers and technical experts