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Thursday, May 17, 2018

BESCA BACKS HACKITT'S RECOMMENDATION TO FOCUS ON THE BROADER SYSTEM

Dame Judith Hackitt was right to resist pressure for a complete ban on combustible building cladding, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Building Engineering Services Competence Assessment (BESCA). The Association and group company BESCA welcomed the findings...

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

BESCA backs Hackitt’s call to action

The Building Engineering Services Competence Assesment (BESCA) along with The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the interim report issued by the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety following the Grenfell Tower fire. The need for future regulations...

Friday, October 27, 2017

New Ventilation Hygiene Elite scheme launched

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched a scheme to help ventilation hygiene specialists demonstrate their competence, quality and standards. With building owners and operators becoming more aware of the fire risks posed by poorly cleaned and maintained systems, there has...

Wednesday, August 23, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING PART 6

PART 6 - LESS SPEED MORE HASTE – GRENFELL – WHEN WILL WE LEARN It has been a little over two months, but over the coming weeks, many questions will still be asked around the Grenfell tragedy. These are questions which we should not predict the answers to, given the severity fire, but questions...

Thursday, August 17, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING PART 5

PART 5 – FLUES, CHIMNEYS AND EXHAUSTS: INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE Continuing our series of looking at the non-cladding aspects of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, we now move onto a key part of a passive fire safety strategy; flues and exhausts. A flue is quite simply a duct, pipe, or opening in a...

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING? PART 4: THE SYMPTOMS VS. THE DISEASE - A SOLUTION

DAVID FRISE, BESA HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY The simple solution to addressing regulation and enforcement does not requires rafts of legislation (except perhaps in fire safety), but the simple enforcement of simplified regulations, which are designed to give us a safe, healthy built environment that...

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING? PART 3 - THE SYMPTOMS VS. THE DISEASE

DAVID FRISE, BESA HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY After considering fire safety in a previous blog, we now turn to look at the issues caused by regulations and lack of enforcement. There are rightly calls for wholesale change and after years of sniping at ‘unnecessary regulations’ we may have to reverse...

Monday, July 31, 2017

BESA APPLAUDS INDEPENDENT REVIEW OF BUILDING REGULATIONS

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has welcomed the commissioning of Dame Judith Hackitt, Chair of the Engineering Employers Federation EEF, to lead an independent review of Building Regulations. The Government announcement came on Friday as part of the continuing response to the...

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING? PART 2 - FIRE STOPPING SYSTEMS

Having previously looked at the fire risks associated with the poor cleaning of ventilation systems, this week we turn to look at fire stopping systems. Passive fire protection, which includes compartmentalization of the entirety of buildings through fire-resistance rated walls and floors,...

Friday, July 7, 2017

GRENFELL - WHAT ELSE ARE WE MISSING?

It goes without saying that many lessons will have to be learned as a result of the horrifying Grenfell Tower tragedy, but improving the way Building Regulations are applied and enforced should be at the top of the list, according toTim Rook*of the Building Engineering Services Association...