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Location
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Prepare for phase 2 of Awaab’s Law with HQN’s practical workshop series. This session will cover structural collapse and explosions primarily from an asset management and property condition perspective.

  • Our speakers

    Wayne Hughes, Associate, HQN
    Wayne Hughes is an experienced consultant who has worked at a senior level within private and public sector housing related organisations for the past 40 years. He has authored several articles on asset management related activities and has sat on several advisory bodies for the social housing sector, including sitting on the panel which developed the widely used Disrepair Pre-action Protocol. He was also part of the team which established the English House Condition Survey (now called the English Housing Survey).

    Colin Farrell, Senior Partner, Faithorn Farrell Timms
    A Senior Partner and co-founder of FFT, Colin is an experienced chartered building surveyor and fellow of RICS with 30 years’ experience, mostly providing services to housing providers and public sector clients.

    Colin leads FFT’s Housing and Property Consultancy team, which provides best-in-class consultancy services including strategic options appraisals, performance assessments and stock rationalisation.

    His specific expertise is in Strategic Asset Management. Building upon years of delivering innovative and reliable stock condition and planned maintenance surveys, Colin more often now advises clients on the strategic management of their property portfolios, to optimise performance through the modelling, analysis and interpretation of high-quality data.

    Colin has a particular interest in portfolio performance assessment and options appraisals, devising strategies to plan and implement energy efficiency, carbon reduction and building safety improvement within the context of property asset management.

    Maggie Cornall, Director of Operations, Wirral Methodist Housing Association
    Maggie has over 30 years’ experience working in social housing. Much of her early career was spent on Merseyside, although the majority of her working life has been in Blackpool. Maggie has extensive non-executive experience in housing as well as in the third and charitable sectors. She is currently the co-chair of a homelessness charity based in Greater Manchester.

  • Programme

    9:30am Welcome and introductions

    Wayne Hughes, Associate, HQN

    9:35am Structural collapse and explosions under Phase 2

    Wayne Hughes, Associate, HQN
    • What is in scope 
    • Risk indicators 
    • Response expectations.

    9:55am Stock condition, balcony risk and structural warning signs

    Colin Farrell, Senior Partner, Faithorn Farrell Timms
    • Survey insight 
    • Inspection and escalation 
    • Proportionate evidence.

    10:20am Managing structural risk in practice 

    Maggie Cornall, Director of Operations, Wirral Methodist Housing Association
    • Reporting routes 
    • Specialist assessment 
    • Tenant communication.

    10:45am Q&A, discussion and wrap-up: risk, evidence and escalation

    11:00am Close

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  • Price and booking

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