Competence across the built environment

Webinar replay

Recorded: 24 September 2020, 15:30 – 17:00 (UK Time)

What’s this webinar about?

This free webinar launched the first consultation on a new standard called: Built Environment – Overarching Competence Framework - Specification.

The framework provides a set of core principles of competence, including leading and managing safety, communicating safety, delivering safety, risk management, regulations & processes, building systems, ethics, and fire/life safety. The webinar is an opportunity for key stakeholders to learn about the framework standard, the development process and how they can get involved. It will be a mix of presentations and Q&A.

What will participants gain?

A better understanding of the competence work programme and the new draft standard
Information on how they can influence the new draft standard
The chance to ask our experts questions
A post-event recording

Please click here to view the agenda.

Scott Steedman CBE FREng FICE FInstRE, Director of Standards, BSI

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.

Chandru Dissanayeke Director, Building Safety Reform, Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government

Chandru Dissanayeke is the Director, Building Safety Reform, in the Ministry for Housing, Communities, and Local Government. He is responsible for implementing the reforms to the building system following Dame Judith Hackitt’s review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety. During his career in the Civil Service he has enjoyed a variety of policy roles across five government departments. Prior to joining the civil service, he had an eclectic career delivering projects and programmes within the financial, technology, manufacturing, and entertainment industries.

Clare Price, Sector Lead, BSI – Built Environment and Programme Lead on the Built Environment Competence Standards programme

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.

Richard Harral FCABE RIBA - Technical Author, Overarching Competence Framework Standard

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).

New standard framework for competence across the built environment

New standard framework for competence across the built environment

New standard framework for competence across the built environment

New standard framework for competence across the built environment

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