We are pleased to announce our Seminar and Strategic Business Network event in collaboration with Mishcon de Reya.

At this event, we will be releasing the CBC's Whitepaper titled 'Transforming the Construction Sector: Financing, Procurement & Blockchain' for final review by the expert community. Mishcon will also be showcasing its latest developments in LegalTech.

Please register your interest by filling in the form via the link below. You must register by Friday 6th March in order to be considered for this event.

REGISTER

This business network will be accepting short presentations. If you would like to present, please complete a short form via the registration link above.

Entry to this event, as well as the CBC's other seminars, workshops and CBC 2020 Conference is free for members. Register your interest today if you would like to become a member. 

ABOUT CBC STRATEGIC BUSINESS NETWORKS

The CBC Strategic Business Networks are tailored events set up to assist our network to develop new business in connection to DLT and Blockchain technologies. We bring together CBC Strategic Partners, entrepreneurs, and industry stakeholders to investigate the commercial opportunities of emerging technologies in the construction sector.
 

7th Seminar of the Construction Blockchain Consortium

DLT & New Financing Models For The Construction Sector

The CBC's Seminar 7 will explore the role of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) and new financing models for the construction sector. The following speakers have been selected:

• Alpesh Doshi, Fintricity
  Tokenising Solutions in the Construction Sector

• Mat Colmer, Digital Catapult Centre
  What Are Start-ups Working On?

• Dr. Dimitris Antoniadis, DAnton-progm
  Transformation, Project Management Software Systems and Blockchains

• Tim Rook, IBM
  How Blockchain Liberates Capital in Engineering and Industrial Businesses

The agenda will be available in due course.

ABOUT THE CBC SEMINAR SERIES

The CBC's seminars are strategic, tailored events dealing with topical themes and challenges in the construction industry. The series explores the potential disruption and applications of DLT and blockchain in the built environment. The events bring together leading industry and academic practitioners of the field to share and debate new knowledge.

ABOUT THE CBC

The Construction Blockchain Consortium was established to develop knowledge transfer, arrange commercial and academic presentations, assess and test commercial services and technology, conduct research, and drive policy, regulation and understanding of the consequences of Blockchain and other emerging technologies in the Built Environment. CBC is led by the UCL Department of Computer Science and the The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.

We also investigate the development of open source tools on behalf of the industry and to encourage application developers to build proprietary technology and services to deliver sustainable construction solutions.

Challenges and opportunities underlying the use of Smart Contract & Machine Learning in the AEC Industry

Challenges and opportunities underlying the use of blockchain in smart cities and smart grid projects.

Please PURCHASE TICKETS to attend this seminar. To know more about presenters, please visit the SEMINAR 5 page.

Details: Room 3.21, Old Building, LSE, London

Speaker: Jeremy Barnett (Resilience Partners Limited and Construction Blockchain Consortium). Joint work with Adriano Soares Koshiyama and Philip Treleaven.

Abstract

The BARAC project defines feasibility guidelines to policy makers,
industry and regulators by identifying problems and associated
solutions with a bottom up approach, built through case studies
and proof of concept platforms.

In Law a company is treated as having the rights and obligations of a person. In this era of Artificial Intelligence (intelligent assistants, ‘Robo’-advisors, robots, and autonomous vehicles) ‘algorithms’ are rapidly emerging as artificial persons: a legal entity that is not a human being but for certain purposes is considered by virtue of statute to be a natural person. Intelligent algorithms will increasing require formal training, testing, verification, certification, regulation, insurance, and most importantly status in law.

For example, already in financial services Regulators require firms to demonstrate that trading algorithms have been thoroughly tested, demonstrate ‘best execution’ and are not engaged in market manipulation. Other interesting cases are healthcare algorithms; medical-assistant’ Chatbots and patient screening systems which will increasingly dispense medical advice and treatments to patients. Regulators, who have traditionally regulated firms and individuals, are raising the status of ‘algorithms’ to ‘persons’.

This paper discusses the emergence of ‘Algorithms as artificial persons’, with the need to formally verify, certify and regulate algorithms. Its aim is to start discussion in the Legal profession regarding the legal impact of algorithms on firms, software developers, insurers, and lawyers. This paper is written with the expectation that the reader is familiar with ‘Law’ but has a limited knowledge of algorithm technologies.

Jeremy Barnett is a practising Barrister, Recorder and director of Resilience Partners Limited. He is a Director of the Construction Blockchain Consortium (CBC) at UCL and has conducted research into algorithmic dispute resolution and the law of algorithms over a number of years. For 5 years he was the visiting professor of Law Informatics at Leeds University where he lead the Court 21 project, a research group in virtual courts.

CBC Workshop 2: Smart Contracts

Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution

King's College London

The Dickson Poon School of Law,

Somerset House East Wing

Strand, LONDON, WC2R 2LS

06 October 2017 - 14:00 -17:30

Smart Contracts are automated computer protocols intended to facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract. They are becoming increasingly sophisticated with the advent of blockchain cryptocurrency tools like Bitcoin Script, Ethereum Solidity and others.

As one of the leading research establishments in the field, the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London will be discussing the complexities of the emerging field of Smart Contracts and its interfaces with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the challenges posed by the construction industry and its legal framework.

The CBC was established to develop knowledge transfer, arrange commercial and academic presentation, assess and test commercial services and technology, conduct research, and drive policy, regulation and understanding of the consequences of blockchain and other emerging technologies in the Built Environment.

We also wish to investigate the development of open source tools on behalf of the industry, to encourage application developers to build proprietary technology and services to deliver sustainable construction solutions.

The first step is to consider how Building Information Modelling (BIM) can interface with Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) to encourage the continued growth of the UK’s world class capability in architecture, design and engineering. 

This will be an informal workshop where members of the CBC technical group will talk about their perspectives on the project, and a systems requirement can be defined in conjunction with participants at the event.