This is the industry’s big response to Hackitt. Why is no one talking about it?

By Chloë McCulloch2019-08-22T05:00:00

Raising the Bar is an important report with many laudable aims, but will the industry and government back it?

Mid-August is never a great time to release a heavyweight report – the fact is the summer holidays mean few people are about and in any case very little presently can penetrate the wall of Brexit no-deal fears that dominate all media outlets. So it was perhaps not surprising that on Friday last week when the Competence Steering Group (CSG) decided to release its interim report, called Raising the Bar, on competence schemes for all people working on high-risk residential buildings (HRRB), very few in construction seemed to register the fact.

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