30 July 2025
Alternative Heat: Increasing Capacity And ...
Faced with rising project volumes and tighter deadlines, Alternative Heat Ltd. turned to automation and saw incredible results. The UK-based offsite ...
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9 July 2025
Tool Theft: The Reality Of The Issue And How ...
With a bill currently going through Parliament that aims to enforce harsher punishment for tool thieves, it’s becoming more important than ever to ...
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11 June 2025
Shaping The Future Of Cooling: Meet The 2025 ...
Shaping the Future of Cooling: Meet the 2025 WorldSkills UK RACHP Competitors In a world increasingly driven by energy efficiency, environmental ...
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28 May 2025
Top Tips for Crafting a Winning Entry for ...
Getting shortlisted for the BESA Industry Awards can be a game-changer for your business. It's a fantastic opportunity to showcase your achievements, ...
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1 May 2025
Fixing The Foundations: Tackling The ...
The UK construction industry faces a growing crisis; a widening gap between the demand for skilled labour and the number of apprentices entering the ...
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10 March 2025
Apprenticeships Uncovered: An Interview With ...
We sat down with Sam Turato of DW Refrigeration, who recently won Gold at the 2024 WorldSkills UK competition and was named Apprentice of the Year at ...
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5 March 2025
Timeless Strategies For Business Longevity ...
This guest post by Assured Trade Limited explores risk management strategies to help businesses stay financially stable and resilient. The views ...
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5 February 2025
Taking Your Business From Compliance To ...
In the dynamic and highly regulated refrigeration and air conditioning (RAC) industry, achieving excellence extends beyond mere compliance with legal ...
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30 January 2025
The Future of Heat Networks: Opportunities ...
Heat Networks are emerging as a significant growth area within the building services industry. With the UK government committed to expanding these ...
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11 September 2024
Meet the WorldSkills UK Refrigeration and ...
WorldSkills UK Overview At BESA we are proud to have been chosen as an organising partner of the WorldSkills UK competition, which celebrates both ...
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22 July 2024
BESAs top 5 AI areas to watch within ...
The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in engineering has brought about a paradigm shift in the industry, propelling engineers to new ...
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21 June 2024
The 2024 Mantra: Insulate & Ventilate | ...
As we march through 2024 with an intense focus on achieving net zero buildings, one mantra must guide the construction industry: Insulate AND ...
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17 May 2024
Four steps to mould-free homes
Most people’s first instinct when dealing with mould is to clean it away. But although it’s possible to scrub mould from walls and tiles, this is ...
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17 May 2024
Monitoring & Managing Indoor Air Quality in ...
Many employees moved to working from home during 2020, and numerous employers are planning on offering staff the option to continue that practice, or ...
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15 June 2022
They Are Not Perfect, But We Can Work With ...
Changes to the Building Regulations that come into force today can help the industry make buildings healthier and more comfortable while also ...
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10 March 2022
Become an Apprentice and change the world!
Neil Brackenridge started out as an engineering apprentice and is now Past-President of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). He ...
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19 February 2022
Out of Adversity Comes A United Front
“Coming together is a beginning; staying together is progress; and working together is success” Henry Ford.
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15 December 2021
China Is Already Leading Us Down The Path To ...
BESA CEO David Frise explains why 2022 could see some major progress on net zero driven – not by policy - but by a dramatic shift in the economics ...
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20 August 2021
Employment Crisis - What Crisis?
In the early months of the pandemic, forecasters predicted dire consequences for employment in just about every sector of the UK economy. The Bank of ...
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1 July 2021
We Don’t Live In A Cold Country Anymore
We used to live in a cold country, but we don’t anymore, says BESA chief executive officer David Frise.
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31 March 2021
Shrewsbury 24 | Dying In Plain Sight
The long overdue acquittal last week of the ‘Shrewsbury 24’ who were convicted of illegal picketing 47 years ago took us back to a dark era of ...
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12 March 2021
R&D Tax Relief: Be Wary Of Spurious COVID ...
Recently, I was shocked to read an article from an ‘adviser’ counselling businesses that all manner of COVID-19 business responses qualify for ...
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19 June 2020
Melissa Lee | International Women in ...
Melissa is the current BESA Apprentice of the Year and has been interested in engineering since the tender age of 11. She was one of the school ...
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19 June 2020
Holly Fielding | International Women in ...
Raising the profile of women in engineering Holly has worked in the building engineering sector since 2018 and has progressed quickly to the ...
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