The first meeting of the refreshed CIBSE Building Safety Working Group took place last month, bringing together cross-disciplinary expertise from across building services and building safety engineering.
The group will play a central role in advising CIBSE on regulatory reform, consultation responses, and the development of training, guidance and professional competence.
Chaired by former CIBSE President George Adams, the meeting welcomed Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, as a guest speaker. He discussed the government’s prospectus on the proposed single construction regulator (SCR), highlighting its significance for the construction and built environment sectors. The prospectus marks a major moment for the industry, with implications for the whole of the UK.
Watts outlined some of the key decisions the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
will need to take in the coming months, including whether the new regulator will operate as a single entity or as a ‘system’, providing coordinated oversight across buildings, construction products and professions.
The Building Safety Working Group will support CIBSE’s response to the SCR consultation. It will help shape engagement with government and regulators, and advise on how CIBSE can continue to lead on competence, professionalism and best practice across building safety, and more broadly.
To contribute to CIBSE’s response – by 6 March – and for further information on the SCR consultation, visit: The Single Construction Regulator Prospectus