25 June 2025
Data Centre Boom Fuelling Building Services ...
Building services contractors are increasingly taking the lead on data centre projects, according to the Building Engineering Services Association ...
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24 June 2025
BESA Suspends 14 Members
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has suspended 14 member companies for failing to comply with its independent audit process.
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23 June 2025
REFCOM Reaches 9,000 Member Milestone
REFCOM, the UK’s primary F-Gas certification body, has registered its 9,000th member, reflecting rising levels of best practice across the ...
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19 June 2025
BESA Launches Competence Toolkit
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched the first in a planned series of practical guides to help the building services ...
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19 June 2025
BESA Appoints New Director Of Competence And ...
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed a new director of competence and compliance.
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12 June 2025
WorldSkills UK Contestants Get Ready To Face ...
The refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump (RACHP) category of the 2025 WorldSkills UK competition reaches its live qualifying stage at the ...
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10 June 2025
Top 30 firms still optimistic despite ...
The UK’s 30 largest mechanical & electrical (M&E) contractors enjoyed collective growth of 23% last year despite a period of “considerable ...
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20 May 2025
BESA urges government to act quickly on ...
The government must commit to a fully funded national programme of building retrofits which has human health and wellbeing at its heart, according to ...
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19 May 2025
Companies Warned Not To 'Fake' Diversity
Built environment firms shouldn’t do anything about improving the diversity of their workforces if they don’t truly believe in it, according to a ...
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6 May 2025
Ten Years Of Progress On Payment, ...
The industry has made significant progress on late payment, pre-qualification, and competence since the formation of the trade bodyBuild UK ten years ...
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29 April 2025
More Refrigerant Bans Possible Says ...
The government could tighten up the rules that restrict the use of global warming refrigerant gases including speeding up phase out programmes and ...
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3 April 2025
Building safety and quality is good for ...
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged the government and business leaders to focus on the economic value and social benefits ...
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20 March 2025
Manly Trust backs BESA ‘skills legacy’ scheme
A scheme launched by the Building Engineering Services Association to tackle a critical shortage of trainers and assessors is to receive significant ...
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12 March 2025
BESA sets ambitious growth target for 2025 ...
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched its Industry Awards 2025 adding 10 new categories and giving the programme a ...
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28 February 2025
BESA Appoints Kevin Morrissey As Technical ...
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed HE Simm engineering manager Kevin Morrissey as its new technical director.
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14 January 2025
BESA appoints first chief operating officer
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed its first chief operating officer as part of a major strategic transformation.
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8 January 2025
Industry Urged To Back Growing WorldSkills
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is encouraging employers to get behind “a big push for skills” with the launch of the 2025 ...
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6 January 2025
Clients ‘Ignoring Building Safety’, Say BESA ...
Construction clients are failing to engage with the new building safety regime, according to research carried out by the Building Engineering ...
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20 December 2024
BESA appointed to lead heat network programme
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has appointed the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) as the lead training ...
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21 November 2024
Updated damper guidance critical to fire ...
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has published a fully revised version of its long-established industry guidance DW145 Guide to ...
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14 November 2024
Building Safety Act awareness is rising, ...
Research commissioned by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) shows that awareness of the Building Safety Act and its implications is ...
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13 November 2024
Massive HVACR skills consultation gets ...
A major task to update National Occupational Standards (NOS) for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) sectors is ...
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12 November 2024
Two years to ‘fix indoor air quality’
The change of government means the UK has a rare opportunity to add long overdue indoor air quality (IAQ) measures to revised building regulations, ...
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9 November 2024
Top six gear up for WorldSkills final
It could be destination Shanghai for the winner of this year’s WorldSkills UK final at Oldham College later this month organised by the Building ...
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