This year’s JCT Povey Lecture will be given by Bob White, chairman of Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment, non-executive chairman of Mace and chief executive of Building Futures Limited, on Thursday, November 15, at the Institute of Physics in London.

The subject will be “innovation in the change agenda”.

This is the fifth JCT Povey Lecture, established by way of a tribute to Philip Povey, who died in 2001, in recognition of his 50 years’ of service to JCT and the construction industry. Last year’s lecture was by James Wates, who was then deputy chairman of the Wates Group, chairman of the Construction Confederation and chairman of the Strategic Forum for Construction, who gave an interesting insight into his view of the future of the construction industry.


The lecture, which is being staged in the Franklin Theatre at the Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London WIB 1NT, will commence with registration from 5.30pm. The lecture itself will start at 6.15pm, followed by drinks and canapés, concluding at around 8.30pm.

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