UKREiiF 2026

Will you be at UKREiiF? If you’re there, we’d love to meet you. Our multidisciplinary team includes planners, designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors.

We’re hosting sessions that tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the UK’s built environment. We’ll talk about:

• Shaping new communities
• Building impactful public-private partnerships
• Delivering sustainable and successful buildings, infrastructure, and data centres

Our UKREiiF programme

Tuesday, 19 May

9:00–10:30 AM: How are power and water constraints forcing design innovation in data centres?—Exploring grid limits, water scarcity, resilience and lessons from global markets.
Host: Henry Milner-Smith
Invitation-only session

10:45–11:30 AM: Public Private Partnerships Stage Panel: How New Communities Get Built: Experience, Reality, and What’s Next—Real delivery lessons with Barking Riverside, Brabazon and West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Host: Roger Evans
Open session

11:00–12:30 PM: Roundtable: Beyond Dormitories: Designing New Communities for Jobs and Growth—How new communities become economic engines, not just places people commute from.
Host: Leigh Stolworthy, Gareth Brown
Invitation-only session

1:00–2:30 PM: Roundtable: Designing for Density: From Buildings to Belonging—Translating housing numbers into quality, longevity and places people trust.
Host: David Hutt
Invitation-only session

3:00–4:30 PM: Roundtable: Influence in the Middle: How Early Career Professionals Shape New Town Delivery—A delivery‑focused discussion on coordination, handovers and where outcomes are really shaped.
Hosts: Thomas Brackenbury, Gwen Bell-Rennie 
Invitation-only session