ROOF Diary

Interbuild is the leading built environment exhibition, featuring hundreds of exhibitors offering a variety of building structures, solutions, products and materials. This year’s event will for the first time feature Interbuild Specifier, a show created for anyone responsible for designing, commissioning or managing building stock.

As well as being able to source new suppliers, the exhibition is an opportunity to see building solutions in action and gain inspiring yet practical ideas. Central to this will be Sustainability Street, a living, breathing showcase of buildings from a number of key sectors, including affordable housing. Comprising of a series of real life structures, visitors will be able to walk around the buildings and see, touch and test the products and materials used to construct them. If you are looking for new ideas or affordable and sustainable solutions for your housing projects, then this is a must attend.

Interbuild Specifier will also feature a free conference, tackling the big issues affecting the construction industry, with Monday 19 October devoted to housing. Topics include ‘Unlocking the potential of social housing’, and feature speakers from the Homes and Communities Agency, Galliford Try and English Partnerships. These sessions will bring together those actively managing UK housing to debate these issues with the architects, planners and developers responsible for their construction.

This national conference will allow attendees to understand the evolving safeguarding agenda, appreciate the contribution of housing and support staff and learn from best practice in other areas. Ideal attendees include managers of housing and support for older people; managers in housing and support with a responsibility for safeguarding; adult protection co-ordinators from local authorities; staff from police, health and adult social services; commissioners of housing and support for older people and anyone with an interest in learning more about safeguarding and older people.

This conference will ask how we can mainstream good practice into daily reality at both the strategic commissioning level and also for service users and staff on the frontline. It will help participants:
translate the key messages from the housing, health and social care agendas to foster a common agenda; explore the challenges of improving services to deliver the right outcomes for vulnerable people;
identify the opportunities to commission innovative services that work - learning from best practice examples - to deliver positive outcomes; assess the strengths and weaknesses of their local situation;
contribute to setting the local agenda of next steps to be tackled.