The Building Safety Act 2022 – How will it affect you?

Recorded: Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Timing: 12.00 – 13.00 (BST)

What’s this Building Safety Act 2022 webinar about?

The Building Safety Act 2022 represents the biggest set of wholesale building regulation changes in the last 40 years. Construction businesses should know how it will affect them. This short webinar will provide a practical understanding of the Act and what it will mean for the built environment sector.

Who should attend the Building Safety Act 2022 webinar?

• Built environment
• Building safety
• Building regulations
• Fire safety
• Facilities management
• Insurance
• Procurement
• Manufacturing (including construction products)
• Clients/employers
• Principal designers
• Principal contractors
• Building control bodies
• Asset managers
• Emergency services enforcing authorities (FRS and BCB)

What will participants gain?

• An outline of the main aspects of the Building Safety Act 2022
• A better understanding of the changes made by the Act
• A practical grasp of how the Act will affect individual businesses
• The chance to put your questions to our experts
• A post-event copy of the presentations and a recording of the webinar

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.