Association of University Directors of Estates

AUDE Conference 2010 Plenary and Workshop Presentations

Copies of presentation material from plenary and workshop sessions at the AUDE Conference in 2010, where supplied by the presenters, can be accessed from the links below.   Member log in is required for some of this material. 

Plenary Sessions

Plenary 1:  The Funding Environment for Higher Education, Nicola Dandridge, Chief Executive, Universities UK.

Plenary 2:  Making the Grade, Paul Finch, OBE, Chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE).

Plenary 3:  Strategic Themes in Academic and Research Libraries, Carole Wedge, President Shepley Bulfinch.

Plenary 4:  New Thinking on Public Space, David Page, Partner, Page\Park Architects.

Plenary 5:  Introducing Inspirational Leadership - Lessons from Shakespeare's Henry V, Michael Boyle, Senior Associate, Olivier Mythodrama. 

Plenary 6: The Student Experience at the Heart of Higher Education Development, Bahram Bekhradnia, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute.

Plenary 7: The Future of Space for Learning: The Next Evolutionary Step, Colin Beard, Teaching Fellow, Sheffield Business School.

Plenary 8:  The Prince and the Comedian - The Art of Influence and the Power of Persuasion, Russell Wardrop, CEO and Co-Founder, Kissing with Confidence.

Plenary 9:  Leading Change, Sir George Bain, former Principal of the London Business School and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast.

Plenary 10:  Current Issues, Higher Education Funding Councils, Andrew Smith, Head of Estates and Sustainable Development at the HEFCE; Chris Cowburn, Estates Consultant for HEFCW; Jim McConnell (University of Glasgow and SAUDE) for SFC.  

Workshop sessions

Workshop 1.  AUDE Toolkit for a Sustainable Estate, launch.  Rod Mallinder, Chair of the Space Management Tools Project Steering Group; Sian Kilner, Director, Kilner Planning; Patrice Muller, Managing Partner, London Economics.

Workshop 2.  Sustainable Refurbishment of Older Buildings. 

Case Study 1.  Overcladding: New Face, New Life - realising the wish list.  David Burnett (Partner, Burnett Pollock Associates) and Colin Davies (Director of Capital Projects, Liverpool John Moores University).

Case Study 2. Muirhead Tower. Ian Barker (Director of Estates, University of Birmingham) and Warren Jukes (Director, Associated Architects).

Workshop 3.  Better communications, better projects.  Ian Caldwell (Chair,Higher Education Design Quality Forum (HEDQF)), Simon Austin ( Professor of Structural Engineering, Loughborough University) , Rupert Cook (Joint Convenor HEDQF and Director, architecture plb).

Workshop 4.  Making Sense of the Carbon Maze.  Richard Rugg, Head of Public Sector, The Carbon Trust.   Copy of presentation below, log in required.

Workshop 5. Integration of Hard and Soft FM Services - Horses for Courses or One Size Fits All.  Fides Matzdorf, Senior Research Fellow/Network Manager, Sheffield Business School.

Workshop 6.  Integrated Emergency Planning: Resilience versus the Roulette.  Arthur Davidson( Belfast Resilience Forum); Dara Curley (Security Manager) Queen’s University Belfast.

Workshop 7.  Repeat of Workshop 1, see above.

Workshop 8.  Repeat of Workshop 4, see above.