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CIBSE’s president Fiona Cousins has appeared on the podcast 'Behind the Built Environment', hosted by BESA’s CEO David Frise.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has created a new skills and policy department to address the industry’s major training and recruitment challenges.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched a training programme to help building services firms work more closely with schools and inspire future generations of building services engineers. The BESA School Engagement and Engineering Discovery (SEED) Programme is fully funded b

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) have agreed to work more closely on issues including the push for net zero in the build environment. The contractors' trade body and the industry's professional institution have

Building services provider Arc-Tech (Scotland) is now a BESA member and is SNIPEF-certified. Formerly the Heating and Ventilation Contractors Association, the Building Engineering Services Association is an industry body which is designed to promote high-quality workmanship, develop best practice an

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has launched a new specification for ventilation hygiene as part of its ongoing efforts to minimise the risk posed by contaminated indoor air to human health and well-being. It has also updated two of its air hygiene training courses to ensure del

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has urged building services employers to take advantage of the campaign created by this year’s Scottish Apprenticeship Week (SAW 2024) to address their skills shortages. The Association is promoting the opportunities for both employers and e

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed Simon Lunt as its first head of business development as part of a wider strategic review. Lunt brings extensive and varied experience to this new role having started his career in the chemical industry in Scandinavia with Forchem Oy

Buildings should be made to work better for social and economic reasons, not just to meet safety and climate change goals, according to the president of the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Speaking at the opening of the Association’s annual conference in London, Claire Curran

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has unveiled a new UK test regime for Heat Interface Units (HIUs), which replaces the original standard developed in 2016 and revised in 2018. BESA’s UK HIU Test Regime has been considerably expanded and enhanced to improve the information a

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has announced the shortlist for its expanded programme of National Awards. The 2023 Awards are sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric and will be presented on October 12 at a gala dinner in the Novotel London West hotel. The event, which was attended by

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) is bringing together its “most ambitious and wide-ranging” programme of commercial and technical content to date for its sixth Annual Conference this October. The Association has now launched the full programme for the one-day event, w

BESA Scotland’s latest annual Golf Day in Peebles was hailed a huge success with more than 60 members taking part.

Scottish Apprenticeship Week (SAW) can play a pivotal role in helping the building services sector get to grips with its skills shortages and lack of diversity, according to the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). The theme of this year’s SAW (#ScotAppWeek23) is ‘unlocking

The built environment’s leading professional bodies have joined forces to align the data standards that are used to manage costing, carbon and building and facilities maintenance, in a bid to clear up confusion and shift the digital focus from new build to whole life building performance. In w