Global Built Environment Summit: Health, Safety and Welfare

Recorded: 30 November 2022

Timing: 09.00 – 12.00 (GMT)

What’s this webinar about?

In this opening session of BSI’s Global Built Environment Summit we aim to help the construction sector better understand the latest happenings in the world of health, safety and wellbeing and the new supporting legislation and standards. In what amounts to the biggest set of wholesale building regulation changes in the last 40 years we will specifically focus on the impact of the Building Safety Act and the formation and operation of the new Building Safety Regulator who will oversee it. We will also explore what this new regime is likely to mean for the construction product sector in terms of their testing, certification and placing on the market. The session will conclude with a presentation on our new PAS that sets out best practice for designing a truly inclusive built environment that addresses the needs of people with neurocognitive profiles.  

Who should attend the webinar?

• Asset owners (clients)
• Asset operators (landlords, asset managers, facility managers)
• Design professionals (architectural designers, engineers, consultants)
• Construction professionals (contractors, sub-contractors, installers, site managers)
• Building Control Bodies
• Fire and Rescue Services
• Manufacturers (including product manufacturers)  
• Insurers

What will participants gain?

• An overview of the Built Environment Sector from one of our Industry leaders  
• Hear first-hand from our new Building Safety Regulator in which they will set out the main aspects of the Building Safety Act 2022
• An understanding of the current challenges facing construction products and what the future will look like in terms of their marking, testing & certification
• Insight into our new PAS 6463 Design for the mind – Neurodiversity and the built environment
• The chance to put questions to our experts in advance
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

AGENDA

09:00 Welcome & Introduction

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

9:10 - 09:40 State of the Nation

Dr Hywel Davies, Technical Director, CIBSE & Chair, The Building Regulations Advisory Committee

09:50 – 10:30 Our new Building Safety Regulator

Andrew Moore, HSE, Industry Competence Lead, Building Safety Programme

Break

10:40 – 11:20 The testing & certification of Construction Products 

Mike Wood, Independent product technologist & fire safety consultant

11:20 – 11:50 PAS 6463 Design for the mind – Neurodiversity and the built environment

Jean Hewitt, Associate, Buro Happold and Inclusive Design & UK Government Disability and Access Ambassador for the Built Environment

11:50 Summary & Close

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

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. 

Hywel Davies is the Technical Director of CIBSE, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, the professional body for building engineering services, and has been with CIBSE for almost twenty five years. CIBSE delivers authoritative guidance on the design, installation, operation and maintenance of engineering systems in buildings.  

Hywel leads the technical and policy development work of the Institution with a particular focus on the Building Regulations and building safety reforms and the adoption of digital information management.  

He currently chairs the BSI committee for digital information management and data exchange and in a personal capacity he also chairs the Building Regulations Advisory Committee, which advises DLUHC on the Building Regulations, and leads the BRAC Working Group on the Golden Thread.

Andrew has over 20 years of experience with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In this time, Andrew has worked on the frontline to improve health and safety standards in agriculture, public services, manufacturing, waste and recycling and construction.

Andrew has initiated several campaigns to promote health and safety and has led many high-profile prosecutions following health and safety failures. 

Andrew has a MSc in Social Research which he used to act as an HSE intelligent customer to commission research projects.  Andrew has performed a partnership liaison role with Local Authority regulators and taken the UK lead on chemical policy including the REACH and CLP regulations.

Most recently, Andrew has been the industry competence lead within the HSE Building Safety Regulator team.  This role involves liaising with industry stakeholders to support standards, guidance and frameworks that can be used to grow competence in the new building safety regime.  Andrew is also the Secretariat for the Interim Industry Competence Committee, where he helps to identify and address the strategic competence priorities

Mike is a glass process and product technologist starting with Pilkington in 1974, retiring 2012. His career first included R&D in basic glass melting, troubleshooting on quality and process problems, furnace design and refractories testing for glassmaking, followed by safety product, market and strategic business development. That especially included for around 20 years technical and marketing responsibilities for fire-resistant glass and blast-resistant glazing development.

He has been a member of all the BSI fire-related committees for many years. Recent highlight involvements have been the development and review of the fire engineering-based standards BS 9999 and BS 9991, also the fire door assembly standard BS 8214.

Campaigning for fire safety has been a longstanding personal commitment, originating from considerations of glass use in architectural design and building fire safety.  Mike has a long-time connection in parallel with ASDMA (the Architectural and Specialist Door Manufacturers’ Association) focusing on specialist and bespoke fire doors.  He is technical consultant to the association, advising on best practice, regulations and standards. Other association involvements have included chairing the Fire Safety Development Group, the Passive Fire Protection Federation, the Fire-Resistant Glazing Group of the Glass and Glazing Federation, and a founder member of the Fire Sector Federation in 2010 (including authoring the Built Environment Report for the Fire Futures Review of that time, following the Lakanal House fire).

Mike is currently also technical advisor, on a voluntary basis, to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fire Safety, members being both Westminster MP’s and Lords.

Jean is an inclusive Environments specialist with Buro Happold and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Bartlett, where she leads the “Designing Inclusive Places” module on UCL’s MSc Health Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings programme. She currently holds a voluntary post as the UK Government’s Disability and Access Ambassador for the Built Environment.

Jean is longstanding member of BSI’s B559 Committee for Accessible and Inclusive Environments, and is BSI’s technical author for PAS 6463: Design for the Mind - Neurodiversity and the Built Environment.