14 April 2025
Keep Calm And Focus On Your (People) ...
The global economy is reeling from Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ but there are ways for the building engineering sector to turn a negative into a ...
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26 March 2025
10 Ways To Maximise Your BESA Membership ...
Joining the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) provides more than industry recognition. It offers practical benefits that support ...
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20 January 2025
Only AI can save us now
The UK government sees artificial intelligence as the answer to many of the country’s problems. From fixing potholes to reforming the NHS, it claims ...
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19 August 2024
The hottest of hot topics
The world experienced its three hottest days ever in July with the 22nd now standing as the hottest day the planet has ever seen with a global ...
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9 July 2024
We are good guys too
Our new Prime Minister has a bulging in-tray and building services engineering is probably not at the forefront of his mind right now, but maybe it ...
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7 August 2023
Who believes in net zero?
The result of the Uxbridge by-election clearly swung away from Labour because of determined local opposition to the extension of London’s Ultra-Low ...
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31 July 2023
Is Gove’s support for retrofit ‘pathetic’?
Two thirds of the whole life carbon of a building is embodied. The first third is in the creation of the building and the second in the replacement ...
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19 June 2023
Do Engineers dream of an ai assistant?
Is there any more controversial subject than the growth of Artificial Intelligence (AI) right now? Even some of the so-called ‘AI godfathers’ ...
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23 February 2023
So, there never was a plan
At the recent BESA President’s Lunch, we received confirmation of something most of us probably already knew – but it was instructive anyway, writes ...
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2 February 2021
David Frise | The Government Means Business ...
If anyone did have any lingering doubts about the government’s determination to reform the construction industry and its supporting specialist ...
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