The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Mark Wakeford is a Director of the National Federation of Builders, Strategy Director of the Global Solar Council and Chair of the West Midlands Solar Taskforce. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide 'CPD on the go'. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Construction Robots – How to be part of a £300Bn industry by 2030 – Fact or Fiction?
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Government is planning for a £200 - £300Bn industry by 2030 and Agnes Wamagui is in the epicentre of this aspiration. Agnes is the Knowledge Transfer Manager for Robots within Innovate UK, the Government’s agency for funding and promoting the best of British innovation. She sits at the confluence of Government policy, university research, investors and industry, both developers and users. Her role is to promote collaboration and trust in the sector to fund, train and introduce at pace and at scale the concept and use of robots across industry. Agnes recognised the structural issues that exist within our construction industry, but is adamant that the opportunity is huge, particularly for the early adopters who are keen to improve quality, speed and productivity.
Listen to this podcast to find out what Innovate UK is doing to promote robots within the UK and how to get involved. Find out the challenges that exist around system change to make the most of adopting this technology and the skills that we will all need to maximise the benefit of the technology. Agnes believes that the hardware exists already and that the software is catching up rapidly. She is also adamant that there is no excuse why the ideas and research that our top class universities are generating should not stay within the UK to benefit the UK, rather than being bought by foreigners and then returned at a price once honed and optimised.