Dame Judith Hackitt and Peter Baker, speaking at CIOB’s Safer Buildings UK event, gave a clear message: act now on building safety. Now is the time to bring that message to an even wider audience, says Caroline Gumble.
The UK construction sector is facing fundamental changes, following the Royal Assent of the Building Safety Act in April. However, there have been concerns in the sector about the lack of detail around secondary legislation which will be key in how the new regulatory regime will work.
CIOB has been able to go some way to address this – at the end of May, our Safer Buildings UK event brought together more than 200 professionals from across the built environment sector to hear directly from most of the senior figures behind the new building safety regime.
It was important for CIOB to address the subject of safer buildings – a focus on raising quality in construction has been on CIOB’s agenda for many years now, even prior to the tragic Grenfell Tower fire. We have been vocal about the culture change needed to ensure buildings are constructed and managed to be safe for all those who create and occupy them.
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