{"id":32893,"date":"2017-05-02T10:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=32893"},"modified":"2017-05-02T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:52:22","slug":"construction-plant-conference-date-venue-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-plant-conference-date-venue-revealed\/32893\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction Plant Conference date and venue revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Construction Plant-hire Association will host the 2017 Construction Plant Conference on 31 October, bringing together experts from the industry<\/h2>\n<p>Plant equipment firms and manufacturers are set to come together on 31 October to take part in the annual Construction Plant Conference.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpa.uk.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Construction Plant-hire Association<\/a> (CPA), will be held at the new Heart of England Conference and Events Centre, Coventry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/ground-work\/16004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The CPA<\/a> is the main trade association for the industry and has over 1,600 members who supply some 85 per cent of equipment used in construction. The sector generates over \u00a34bn a year and invests \u00a31.3bn in new equipment annually.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event will span one day and will focus on the future of construction plant hire, including the upcoming issues that will influence the industry. Headlining the event will be plant tracking specialist AMI Group. The firm will be joined by a number of exhibitors including GenQuip, ECY Haulmark, and Datatag.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the event, CPA\u2019s director Kevin Minton said: \u201cThis will be the fourth year that the CPA Construction Plant Conference has been held and it has become an essential entry in the calendar for senior figures in the plant hire industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year sees a new venue being introduced to provide far more indoor and outdoor exhibition space, and the Midlands location brings it within travelling range for far more delegates from across the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The future of the sector<\/h3>\n<p>It is expected the event will address a number of important issues impacting the construction plant hire sector, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Major projects<\/li>\n<li>Client requirements<\/li>\n<li>Tackling future skills needs<\/li>\n<li>Health and safety developments<\/li>\n<li>Securing assets<\/li>\n<li>Embracing new technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Quality speakers<\/h3>\n<p>The event has previously attracted speakers from organisations such as the Health and Safety Executive, CITB, Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, HS2, Tideway, Highways England, Skanska and Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the event will be available in the coming months on the CPA website and organisations interest in exhibiting should contact Lisa Collins at lisa@lisacollinscommunications.co.uk or on 07968 840390<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Construction Plant-hire Association will host the 2017 Construction Plant Conference on 31 October, bringing together experts from the industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[704,431],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-plant-equipment-supplies-news","7":"tag-construction-plant-hire-association","8":"tag-plant-equipment-supplies"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction Plant Conference date and venue revealed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Construction Plant-hire Association will host the 2017 Construction Plant Conference on 31 October, bringing together experts from the industry\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-plant-conference-date-venue-revealed\/32893\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction Plant Conference date and venue revealed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Construction Plant-hire Association will host the 2017 Construction Plant Conference on 31 October, bringing together experts from the industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-plant-conference-date-venue-revealed\/32893\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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