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Tuesday, March 6, 2018
The Building Engineering Services Association has been appointed as a Registered End Point Assessment Organisation (RoEPAO), which allows it to assess new training standards in England. This follows its appointment late last year as an officially registered New Standard apprentice delivery body able to operate across England, Scotland and Wales with Northern Ireland soon to follow. BESA members...
Read MoreTuesday, February 13, 2018
A hard-hitting action plan to finally put the issue of cash retentions in construction to bed has been issued to the Government by leading engineering services bodies the BESA and ECA. The submission follows the collapse of Carillion last month, which has severely affected many subcontractors. In the submission, the two trade bodies called on the Government to put retentions in trust as a key...
Read MoreFriday, January 26, 2018
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has completely revised and updated the industry’s primary guidance document for kitchen ventilation design. The Specification for Kitchen Ventilation Systems (DW/172), which was first published by the Association in 1999, is generally acknowledged to be the most authoritative specification for the sector in the UK and in many parts of the...
Read MoreTuesday, January 23, 2018
A snap poll of Carillion engineering sub-contractors shows that many companies are facing huge financial losses from the collapse of the construction giant. That’s according to new data obtained by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the electrotechnical and engineering services trade body ECA. Carillion owes around £75 million to around 80 engineering services firms, who...
Read MoreThursday, January 18, 2018
ECA and the BESA meet with liquidators PwC and Government on Wednesday Leading engineering services trade bodies ECA and BESA yesterday (Wednesday 17 January) pressed Carillion liquidators PwC to provide greater certainty to private sector contractors over the outstanding cash owed by the fallen construction giant. PwC’s David Kelly confirmed they and Carillion will provide suppliers with...
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