Firms to be saddled with costs of improving competence

By Joey Gardiner2019-08-28T05:00:00

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Price of buildings likely to rise to pay for regulation and oversight of competence frameworks

One of the key figures behind a 150-page report into how to improve competence in the industry has admitted the proposals will see firms saddled with extra costs.

The Competency Steering Group’s (CSG) interim report, Raising the Bar, published earlier this month, made 67 recommendations as part of a plan to establish a new building safety competence committee and come up with competence frameworks to apply to all those working on high-risk residential buildings.

It set out proposals for regulating the competence of 12 separate roles in the construction of high-risk residential buildings – including engineers, product installers and fire consultants – by respective trade bodies.

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