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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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13 December 2024

What a year but where do we go from here?

BESA President Adrian Hurley reflects on a tumultuous 2024 and looks ahead to potential business growth in 2025 despite extremely challenging ...
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26 November 2024

Educate don’t intimidate

Building engineering firms are struggling to get to grips with new safety legislation and a big part of the problem is the “dense and confusing legal ...
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10 September 2024

Some people were ‘simply incompetent’

Could there be a more damning indictment from the Grenfell Tower public inquiry than that? Writes BESA's Director of Specialist Knowledge, Rachel ...
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15 August 2024

Put your principals first

The Principal Contractor plays a pivotal role under the Building Safety Act. So, who are they, what do they do…and why do they matter so much?
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24 July 2024

Navigating the contractual minefield

With unfair contract conditions hindering the progress of far too many built environment SMEs, Abiola Aderibigbe, BESA’s group head of legal & ...
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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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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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9 May 2024

NextGen Take On the Building Safety Act: ...

The Building Safety Act has been described as the most profound change to construction since World War Two, but there hasn’t been much evidence of ...
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23 February 2024

Every building occupant deserves to be safe

With the building inspection regime on the verge of collapse is this really the right time to be relaxing the rules for building conversions?
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8 February 2024

Every building is high risk and all ...

Many contractors are still ignoring safety regulations despite repeated warnings that measures introduced by the Building Safety Act are already in ...
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19 December 2023

What kind of future?

What motivates young engineers? Money? Great projects? Better career prospects? People might be surprised because, while those things are nice to ...
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