Built environment monthly webinar – implementation of BSI Flex 8670 V3.0

Recorded: 24 March 2021 (12:00 - 13:00 UK time)

What’s this webinar about?

Last year BSI started work on an industry-led programme to build a suite of documents aimed at helping to raise the standards of workforce competence across the built environment.

The first of these documents is BSI Flex 8670, the third version of which was published in Spring 2021. It provides a set of core principles of competence for individuals working in the built environment.

This webinar was held to inform and raise awareness of the ongoing standardization activity. It updates you on the progress of the MHCLG-sponsored Built Environment Competence Standards programme; gives an overview of how to implement BSI Flex 8670 v3.0: 2021; and launches the development of PAS 8673 Framework for competence of Building Safety Managers.

Who is this webinar for?

The whole built environment sector involved in the design, build and management of residential buildings, with particular reference to higher risk buildings. It is also relevant to residents of these buildings.

What will participants gain?

• An update on the Building Safety Bill
• An update on BSI’s Built Environment Competence Standards programme
• Insights into how to implement BSI Flex 8670 v3.0:2021
• Find out how to be involved in all three PAS projects (PAS 8671 Competence of the Principal Designer, PAS 8672 Competence of the Principal Contractor, and PAS 8673 Framework for competence of Building Safety Managers)

Agenda

12:00 - 12:05 Introduction and welcome – Clare Price - Sector Lead for Built Environment, British Standards Institution (BSI)
12:05 - 12:15 Update on the Building Safety Bill – Damien Dacey - Deputy Director, Building Safety Reform, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG)
12:15 - 12:30 BSI Flex 8670 V3 – Richard Harral - Technical Director, Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE)
12:30 - 12:40 PAS 8673 Framework for competence of Building Safety Managers – Anthony Taylor - Proprietor Resolve Risk Ltd and BECS lead for the Building Safety Manager PAS 
12:40 - 12:45 Update on the Built Environment Competence Standards programme – Clare Price - Sector Lead for Built Environment, British Standards Institution (BSI)
12:45 - 13:00 Q&A
13:00 Close of the webinar

For a better understanding of the standards being developed to increase competence in the UK built environment sector, please book your place now.

Clare 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.

Damien is a Deputy Director in the building safety programme with responsibility for reform legislation. He joined the programme in late 2019 having spent 6 years at the centre of Government in the Cabinet Office and, since 2016, in the Department for Leaving the EU. He is a relatively new husband and even newer Father. He lives in South East London.

Richard is a Chartered Architect and Chartered Building Engineer and currently Technical Director at CABE. Following on from 11 years in practice as an architect, Richard worked in Central Government on Building Regulations relating to building safety, accessibility and security. He was Head of Technical Policy in DCLG from 2014 to 2017 and is involved in a number of Competence Working Groups including WG1 (Engineers,) WG6 (Building Control) and Working Group 7v (Designers).

Anthony Taylor is a professional GRC (Governance, Risk & Compliance) consultant. He has worked at senior level in various organisations including civil engineers, an insurance brokers, a global tour operator, a public sector local authority and latterly national and international real estate companies.

Anthony is an Honorary Member of RICS, a Chartered Member of IOSH, and a member of a number of other professional bodies, he is currently the proprietor of Resolve Risk Ltd offering specialist consultancy. He has, since June 2018, served as Chair for Working Group 8 (Building Safety Manager) in relation to industry’s (Competence Steering Group) response to Dame Judith Hackitt’s Report into the failings at Grenfell.

Additionally, he Chairs several committees on a pro bono basis, including RICS Health & Safety Advisory Group, IRPM’s H&S Committee, and Greenwich University’s Built Environment Industry Liaison Committee; always seeking to achieve co-operation and co-ordination across the sector.