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The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has suspended 14 member companies for failing to comply with its independent audit process. The Association’s Council, whose members are responsible for BESA’s governance and ensuring that it continues to meet the vision and values of

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed a new director of competence and compliance. Jill Nicholls is stepping up from her current role as head of service development to replace Helen Yeulet, who is moving on to a new position as strategic consultant to the Association, fo

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed Paul Eagle, executive board technical director at BESA member company Dalkia UK, as the new chair of its Technical Committee. He succeeds Kevin Morrissey, who has recently been appointed as BESA’s new director of technical.

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed HE Simm engineering managing Kevin Morrissey as its new technical director.  Morrissey will take up his new position with BESA from March 2025 and brings more than 35 years’ industry experience to the role, including as ch

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has appointed its first chief operating officer as part of a major strategic transformation. Tony Gilbert joined the organisation full-time at the start of 2025 having worked as a consultant to the Association since last year. He was previously wi

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