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Webinar: Getting ahead of the new safety regulatory regime

Written by Mirela Duras | Nov 17, 2021 10:01:00 AM

Building Safety Series – The Works.

Ark and the BPF are working in partnership to provide a support programme for members who will be grappling with the implementation of the Building Safety Bill.

in our first webinar, we explored "Getting ahead of the new safety regulatory regime by exploiting technology!"

Catch up with our expert panel, Rosalind Benjamin CEO and Founder of Ark, David Hills Senior Director of Ark and Ian Fletcher Director of Policy for the BPF, for a fascinating and incredibly insightful presentation explaining why technology will play such a pivotal role in the new building safety regime and the pathways to compliance

 

Technology and the Building Safety Bill

AGENDA

  • Why Technology will play a pivotal role in the new building safety regime.
  • Getting ahead of the May 2023 expected deadline.
  • The entire building safety ecosystem.
  • It's not just about the “golden thread”
  • Exploiting technology to improve the pathways to compliance

Here is a snippet of what was shared during the webinar...

...Change is coming 

The government have been advising building owners and those who support them to move on building safety before legislation has caught up…so changes are already needed

“There is no excuse... industry must act now.” - don’t expect to be given much time or leeway.

The whole industry has little time left to create the required “pathways to compliance.” Those who are not ready in time may not have a license to trade/occupy

Moral and corporate social responsibility obligations. How this all sits in the court of public opinion.

Recommendation 8.1 of the Hackett report, stated:

Government should mandate a digital (by defaultstandard of record-keeping for the designconstruction and during the occupation of new high-rise residential buildings (HRBBs).

Recommendation 8.3a of the report stated:

Digital records are to be in a format that is appropriately open and non-proprietary with proportionate security controls.

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