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The inaugural 黑洞社区 the Future Commission conference last month sought to gather the industry鈥檚 findings.

The interim findings from the commission - 黑洞社区鈥檚 project to improve the built environment - were presented to the Westminster conference by 黑洞社区 editor Chloe McCulloch.

Panel debates and keynote speakers on topics ranging from net zero, buildign safety, productivity and digital technology took place through the day, with the audience asking questions, submitting feedback and voting in a series of interactive polls.

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Delegates were also invited to share there views for improving the built environment in the conference鈥檚 very own TV booth. We have highligted a selection of their quotes below and above you can click and play our highlights video from the event for more views:

Patricia Moore, UK managing director, Turner & Townsend

鈥淚 think we just saw from the audience in the room that there鈥檚 very low confidence actually that we have the skills within our industry to solve the challenges of the future. What we鈥檙e also seeing is a real decline in uptake in terms of a traditional graduate routes. And so, as an industry, we鈥檝e really got to shake ourselves up.鈥�

鈥淲e鈥檝e got to make the future generations really see us as a passageway to decarbonisation and saving the planet. For me I think its about us thinking in outcomes and telling stories about the impact we are having.鈥�

Rumbi Nambureti, operations manager, BPIC Network:

鈥淭he one thing I think we need in the industry is more young people to increase innovation. We are quitean industry that is very old and male-focused. The more younger people we get in, the more females we get in the better ideas we will have as an industry.

鈥淸We should be] going to school some more, engage with networks, go into communities, talking to younger people and reaching more diverse communities to ensure that we have a bigger pipeline of people joining the industry.鈥�

Josh Rose-Nokes, director, innovation & insight, Avison Young:

鈥淚鈥檓 going to go with..deep autonomy in building control systems, and what this really about is enabling buildings to make intelligent and optimal decisions, understanding the implications of future actions and really elevating what is currently going on in that space.

鈥淲e have smart buildings at the moment but they are not actually that smart, there鈥檚 often a loss of value.鈥�

Tony Wells, chief executive, Merit:

鈥淧roduct-based manufacturing [is my big idea for the future of the built environment]. That鈥檚 where we are going and where we think it鈥檚 going to be. It鈥檚 a journey and it鈥檚 difficult to implement and it鈥檚 difficult to get people to be an early adopter, but eventually people like it.鈥�

 Ian McDermott, chief executive of Peabody:

鈥淕etting it right [on net zero] is going to be really difficult. If you think about the dispersed ownership of our built environment, then actually coordinating all of those people to come to a common conclusion is going to be really challenging.

鈥淭he start would be leadership. So actually showing leadership from government, supporting and investing in the solutions that will come as quite a lot of the solutions don鈥檛 exist at the moment.

鈥淪o we have to invest in the technology, we have to invest in training,and we have to invest in public awareness really so that people actually understand that this requires us to behave in a very different way.鈥�