- Apprenticeships
- BESA Membership
- BESA News
- BESA NextGen
- Building Maintenance
- Building Safety Act
- Contracts
- Decarbonisation
- Employment Affairs & HR
- Events
- Fire Safety
- Guest Post
- Heat Interface Unit
- HVAC
- Indoor Air Quality
- Legal
- Net Zero
- RACHP
- REFCOM
- Retentions
- Retrofit
- Skills
- Specialist Knowledge
- Training & Skills
- ventilation
Overheating should be part of building ...
Changes to the management of the Building Safety Regulator has created an opportunity to address what is often referred to as the most overlooked ...
How We Can Make Britain Great Again
Without getting too Donald Trump about it, the building services sector has a big (and maybe even beautiful!) opportunity to play a crucial role in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
NextGen Ella's Journey: Becoming a ...
In the world of engineering, every professional has a unique path that led them to their career. For Ella, a Trainee Contracts Engineer at Narbeths ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Deadline looming for industry accreditation ...
The building services industry will enter a new era at the end of this year with the removal of so-called ‘Grandfather Rights’ for engineering ...
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 ...
NextGen Take On the Election: Vote – because ...
Early indications suggest that a lower proportion of young people (compared with other age groups) intend to vote in next month’s general election. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why the Building Safety Act is not just ...
While some companies are clearly getting to grips with the implications and the responsibilities of the Building Safety Act, many are not. Some find ...
SUBCONTRACTING LABOUR, WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ...
In the dynamic world of employment regulations, IR35 stands out as a significant topic that has captured attention in recent years. IR35 refers to ...
PERMANENT CONTRACTS -WHAT'S INCLUDED AND THE ...
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’ ...
BESA President Calls For ‘Crisis Engineering’
The UK should look to its engineering community for solutions to many of the serious social and economic challenges it is facing, according to the ...
How Pioneering Women Grew The Renewables ...
Guest blogger Jarne Veronica reflects on the crucial role played by women pioneers and inventors in the development of the modern renewable building ...
You Can’t Be, What You Can’t See
Alexandra Knight, founder of Stemazing – the organisation she set up to inspire greater diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths ...
How I Am Making Real Impact On Carbon Saving
It seems strange to admit it now, but I actually had no idea about building services until I ended up IN building services.
Why ‘Why’ Is More Important Than ‘What’
Why do we engineer things? Why do we do it like that? Is it because we have always done it that way? Why not try this instead?
I Fell Into Engineering, But It Has Really ...
I have spent more than 20 years in the facilities management sector working for several major firms in business development, sales, and customer ...