Seminar Agendas 2026

The Monklands Replacement Project is NHS Lanarkshire’s exciting vision for University Hospital Monklands (UHM) and the community it serves. A new, state-of-the-art, UHM targeting Net Zero Carbon will support the clinical model to meet objectives set out in NHS Lanarkshire’s healthcare strategy.

The continuing maturity of digital construction provides UHM with the aspiration to create a digital twin offering a huge opportunity to make better-informed decisions that will lead to improved outcomes, enabling NHSL in delivering a hospital of clinical, operational, and building excellence.

As part of the collaborative project delivery team, we will explore:

- How the design is working to achieve a future-looking, inspirational, and digitally enabled clinical environment

- How we are approaching the project development through digital collaboration, practical workflows, standardisation, and component driven risk reporting.

- Investigate some of the key data formats, digital tools and methods employed to deliver the design aspirations towards a digital twin

As AI rapidly reshapes the built environment, questions remain about its role in one of the construction industry’s most critical responsibilities: building safety. This panel brings together leading building safety and digital construction specialists to explore how AI is currently being used, and could be used, in the design, assessment and operations of safer buildings. Through expert discussion and real world perspectives, the panel will examine where AI adds genuine value, where its limitations and risks lie, and how it can complement (rather than replace) professional judgement and regulatory oversight.

Moderated by Women in BIM to encourage open debate, this session will challenge assumptions, highlight practical applications and consider what guardrails are needed to ensure AI supports better, safer outcomes for people and places, both now and in the future.

Cities around the world are becoming “smarter” through the likes of digital technologies such as sensors, data platforms, digital twins and AI-driven systems. But does smart automatically mean intelligent? This head-to-head discussion, hosted by Women in BIM, brings together two contrasting perspectives to challenge how we define intelligence in the built environment.

The session will explore whether today’s smart city initiatives genuinely improve decision making, resilience, inclusivity and quality of life, or whether they risk prioritising technology over people. From data led urban planning and digital infrastructure to governance, ethics and wellbeing, the speakers will debate what true intelligence in cities really looks like and who gets to define it. Fast paced and thought provoking, this discussion will question prevailing narratives, surface uncomfortable truths and invite the audience to rethink how digital tools should serve cities, communities and future generations.

AI is rapidly transforming AV - but the real shift is bigger than camera control and smart audio. The meeting room is becoming a sensor, the collaboration platforms a brain, and the building a responsive system. That convergence can finally solve long‑standing workplace problems: wasted space, inconsistent meeting experiences, inaccessible collaboration, runaway energy costs, and support teams drowning in tickets.

In this keynote, Tim Russell (Chief Technologist at CDW UK) reframes “AI in AV” as the front door to smart, human‑centric buildings. You’ll learn how AI‑enabled rooms can improve meeting equity and inclusion, how occupancy and environmental intelligence can optimise comfort and cost, and how to implement “trust by design” so automation enhances people rather than becoming big brother.

Some of the key questions Tim will answer:

• What does "AI in AV" actually change in workplace strategy - this year and five years out?
• Where’s the line between helpful intelligence and invasive monitoring?
• Who should own this: IT, AV, FM, HR -  and how do you govern it together?