Quality in fit-out: working better together
Date: 25 February 2026
Location: Business Design Centre, London (alongside Workspace Design Show)
Room: B&C, Second Floor
Making sustainability your superpower – discussing a value based approach
Strategies to embed sustainability into every stage of a fit-out and make sustainability your competitive edge
Opening from the Chair: Flavie Lowres, FIS Sustainability Champion
Ana Rita Martins – Sustainability Lead, MCM
Penelope McCallum – Sustainability Director, Unipsace
Patrick Ames – Director, Claremont Group Interiors
Georgina Smith – Director, Broadbase
Duration: 1 hour – qualifies towards your CPD
10.30 – 11.30
Session sponsored by
Opening the door to a circular future with better design
How something as simple as a door can lead the way in reuse and sustainability
Opening from the Chair – Iain McIlwee, FIS Chief Executive
Debbie Ward – Director, Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP)
Darcy Arnold-Jones – Architect and Circular Economy Lead, Marks Barfield Architects
Will Hunnam – Managing Director, Forza Doors
Duration: 1 hour – qualifies towards your CPD
11.50 - 12.50
Pods – furniture or construction? Understanding the risk
Do Pods create a rift in regulation? From reaction to fire to interaction with active fire protection, do some pods sound too good to be true?
Opening from the Chair: James Parlour, FIS Head of Technical
Andrew Parkin – Partner, Global Head of Acoustics, Cundall
Neil Badley – Head of Technical Standards and Learning & Development – Sweco
Duration: 1 hour – qualifies towards your CPD
13.10 - 13.50
Measuring the impact of fit-out
Understand the numbers, where are the big wins and how data can help us to reduce embodied carbon in interiors
Opening from the Chair: Flavie Lowres, FIS Sustainability Champion
Ella Smith – Building Performance Analyst, AHMM
Emily Samoluk – Senior Sustainability Manager, British Land
Beth Jepson – Senior Sustainability Manager, Parkeray
Duration: 1 hour – qualifies towards your CPD
14:10 - 15:20
Putting reuse first
Is it too complicated? is it too expensive? and is it too time consuming? How re-use can help us rethink construction and save time and money!
Opening from the Chair: Nikhil Dhumma – Director, JLL Corporate Real Estate
Stuart Cochrane – Workplace Sustainability Lead, JLL UK Commercial Real Estate
Simon Patterson – Director, JLL
Conrad Stone – Associate Director, Cundall
Will Belfield – Environmental & Sustainability Manager, Overbury
Duration: 1 hour – qualifies towards your CPD