Built Environment Competence Standards Programme

Recorded: 28 June 2022 (12.30 – 14.30 UK time)

What’s this built environment competence standards (BECS) webinar about?

With the Built Environment Competence Standards (BECS) programme progressing, this session will provide updates on:

• Regulatory drivers, including the Building Safety Bill and regulations
• The role and activities of the new Building Safety Regulator
• The publication of three new PAS documents
• The new BSI technical Committee CPB/1 and its future work programme

Who should attend the built environment competence standards (BECS) webinar?

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

What will participants gain from this built environment competence standards (BECS) event?

• The latest first-hand information on the new Building Safety Bill and Regulator
• Clarity on the Competence work programme and roll-out of new standards
• Advance notice of planned future Competence standards in the UK
• The chance to put questions to our experts
• A post-event copy of all presentations and a recording of the webinar

Agenda

Introduction to the event – Clare Price (Sector Lead – Built Environment, British Standards Institution)

Welcome and opening remarks – Scott Steedman (Executive Director, BSI Group and Director of Standards)

Update on the Building Safety Act and regulations – Kara Kashemsanta (Policy lead: Industry Competence, Building Safety Programme, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

BSR developments – Andrew Moore (Industry Competence Lead, Building Safety Programme, Health & Safety Executive)

PAS 8671 – Adrian Dobson (Executive Director Professional Knowledge and Standards, the Royal Institute of British Architects)

PAS 8672 – Peter Dawber (CEO, Solvere Ltd)

PAS 8673 – Anthony Taylor (professional Governance, Risk & Compliance Consultant)

CPB/1 and future plans for BSI competence standards – Anna Fricker (Lead Standards Development Manager, BSI)

Close - Scott (Executive Director, BSI Group and Director of Standards)

Clare Price 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.

Scott Steedman is an Executive Director of BSI Group and Director of Standards, where he is responsible for BSI’s activity as a global standards organisation and its role as the National Standards Body. A civil engineer by background, Scott spent seven years as an academic at Cambridge University before moving to industry, holding senior roles in consulting companies working on building and infrastructure projects in the UK and around the world. He joined BSI in 2012.

Scott has been Vice President (policy) for the International Standards Organisation (ISO) since January 2017. He is a former Vice President of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was appointed CBE in 2010 for services to engineering.

Kara has been leading on industry competence in DLUHC’s Building Safety Programme since 2018, including overseeing BSI’s development of the competence frameworks suite, working on the Building Safety Bill and working with industry groups to support their work on improving competence.

Prior to that, she has worked on Affordable Homes Programme and various housing, regeneration and communities policies in DLUHC, as well as various health and safety-related posts at HSE. She was trained and qualified as an architect in Thailand.

Andrew has over 20 years’ 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 is 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 grow competence into 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.

Adrian Dobson is Executive Director Professional Knowledge and Standards at the Royal Institute of British Architects.  He is responsible for the RIBA’s education, practice and client services, and leadership of its policy and public affairs work.  A Chartered Architect, having completed his architecture studies at the University of Manchester, his practice experience is mainly in the education and community sectors.  He has also taught in higher education and carried out research in advanced CAD and BIM.

Adrian was closely involved in the development of the updated RIBA Plan of Work. Since the Grenfell Tower fire disaster in June 2017, Adrian has supported the work of the RIBA Expert Advisory Group on Fire Safety, coordinating the RIBA’s input to the Independent Review of UK Building Regulations. Adrian is also the author of 21 Things You Won’t Learn in Architecture School.

Peter Dawber is a Fellow of the CIOB and RICS and was a Senior Academic and Dean of one of the largest Schools of the Built Environment in the UK before leaving to establish his own consultancy - Solvere Ltd.

Five years on Peter has used his extensive knowledge and has been immersed in the development of industry competence across a range of roles within the built environment. These roles include membership of the Competency Steering Group (and Chair of Working Group 9 - Site Supervisors), Steering Group membership of the competence frameworks BSI PAS 8670, 8671 (Principal Designer) and 8673 (Building Safety Manager) and is the industry lead for the development of BSI PAS 8672 (Principal Contractor). He was recently appointed onto the newly formed Interim Industry Competence Committee (IICC) which supports the Shadow Building Regulator on matters of competence.

Peter has served as Chair of a number of industry and professional boards at a regional, national and international level, and recently completed a term as a Trustee of the CIOB.

Anthony Taylor has worked at senior level in various organisations including civil engineers, an insurance broker, 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 risk management 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. Anthony is currently the Interim Chair of the Building Safety Alliance, a body created to implement the recommendations made by WG8 and work with the built environment sector, the Regulator and government to improve residential building safety. He is also a member of the BSI Committee for the Competence in the Built Environment, and on the BSI’s Steering Groups developing PAS for the PD, PC and PAS 8673 (Management of Safety in Residential Buildings)

Additionally, he sits on several committees on a pro bono basis, including IRPM’s H&S Committee, RICS Health & Safety Advisory Group (Chair), APS H&S Committee, and Greenwich University’s Built Environment Industry Liaison Committee (Chair); always seeking to achieve co-operation and co-ordination across the sector. Anthony regularly delivers webinars, CPD events and training with regards to building safety management.

Anna is a Lead Standards Development Manager with responsibility for a number of built environment technical committees relating to competence, digitalization and facilities management. She is the Committee Manager for CPB/1, the new committee formed to oversee the development of standards for competence in the built environment, including the conversion of BSI Flex 8670 to a British Standard, BS 8670.  Prior to joining BSI, Anna worked in academic research and holds a doctorate in materials science from Imperial College London.

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