Built Environment Monthly Webinar – BSI Focus on 2023

Recorded: 31 January 2023

Timing: 12.00 – 13.00 (GMT)

What’s this webinar about?

As the UK’s national standards body, BSI establishes thought leadership across an array of sectors.  This session will focus on the built environment sector and will discuss the thematic areas BSI is focusing on in 2023. This will cover the key challenges and drivers, and what BSI is doing to support practitioner performance and resilience within those areas.

Who should attend the webinar?

Anyone who operates within the built environment sector, including:

• Public sector workers/officials
• Asset owners, managers and operators
• Designers, engineers and specialists
• Contractors, labourers and installers

What will participants gain?

• A better understanding of BSI’s relationship to UK Government policy
• Our perspective on the key challenges and drivers influencing the built environment
• An outline of the activities BSI is undertaking to support the built environment
• The chance to put your questions to us in advance
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

AGENDA

12:00   Welcome & introduction

Anthony Burd, Associate Director, Head of Built Environment, BSI

12:05   Built Environment Challenges/Drivers

Anthony Burd, Associate Director, Head of Built Environment, BSI

12:15   Trust in Data

12:20   Trust in People

12:25   Trust in Products

12:30   Trust in Services

12:35   Trust in the Future

12:40   Q&A

12:50   Summary & Close

Ant heads up the Built Environment Sector team at the National Standards Body. In addition to providing subject matter expertise and thought leadership he also oversees the identification of new areas of research, standardization and supporting product needs, via engagement with key stakeholders from across government and the wider sector. He also oversees the promotion of the standards portfolio to national and international marketplaces.

A Chartered building surveyor and engineer by background, he has more than 32 years’ experience working in the sector, having worked as both an enforcer, and for 16 years was the UK fire regulator and then head of technical policy for the English Building Regulations. Ant has considerable experience in working directly for UK government ministers and representing the UK at European Commission level on construction related discussions and negotiations.

Ant is a full member of the Government’s statutory Building Regulations Advisory Committee and is Immediate Past President of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. 

As part of his role within the British Standards Institution (BSI), Chartered Architectural Technologist Dan Rossiter provides subject matter expertise, thought leadership, and sector engagement around the digital transformation of the built environment. In addition, beyond his role at BSI, Dan has been actively supporting the construction industry locally, nationally, and internationally for several years:

Locally, Dan supports Constructing Excellence in Wales, is a councillor for the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT), Wales Region and co-chair of UK BIM Alliance Wales

Nationally, Dan supports Constructing Excellence, Generation for Change, the UK BIM Alliance, is a member of the CIAT council and several special interest groups as well as a contributor to national standards development within BSI and

Internationally, Dan is a supporter of buildingSMART International as well as a contributor to international standards development within CEN and ISO.

All of Dan’s knowledge and expertise is applied to his award-winning blog There’s No BIM Like Home. Where the full UK BIM Framework is used on his own mid-terrace home in South Wales; practicing what he preaches through transparency, plain language and engaging example.

Clare Price is Sector Lead – Built Environment at BSI. She is a Standards professional with extensive experience in sharing Standards knowledge, managing Standards Committees and recently, working with industry and government to identify standards needs and deliver complex standards projects.

She led the standards workstream in the Each Home Counts Independent Review of energy efficiency and renewable energy where she helped to define and deliver the programme of Standards development, including the PAS 2035 framework, under the Retrofit Standards Task group. A new BSI Technical Committee for Retrofit is being established in 2020. She sits on the Green Construction Board infrastructure working group to provide input on standardization for carbon management and low carbon concrete. She is Project Lead on the Built Environment Competence Standards programme.

Ian is an experienced standards professional, having worked at BSI for over 18 years. Currently working as Sector Lead in the Built Environment area of BSI Knowledge Solutions, he has specific responsibility for the direction and development of key standards areas related to Building Safety, Quality, and Health & Safety, working with industry and government to identify and develop associated knowledge solutions.

Ian has also worked on multiple high-profile projects during his career at BSI, including many of the key management systems standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 50001, ISO 27001 and ISO 45001.

This event contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8 on decent work and economic growth, Goal 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure and Goal 12 on responsible consumption and production.