Advancing building safety through systemic change

Building on this, in September 2020, CIC introduced a Building Safety Committee, led by former CIC chair Professor John Nolan CBE. This committee, chaired now by David McCullogh, comprises leading industry experts from our member organisations, who convene regularly to assess and provide guidance on safety issues.

Following the publication of the Hackitt report, the IRG formed the Competence Steering Group, which CIC’s chief executive, Graham Watts OBE, chaired for five years. This group produced several valuable reports and focused on raising the bar on competence across all sectors involved in building safety, ensuring that professionals are adequately trained and equipped.

CIC’s work is all tied together by its membership – the organisations at the sharp end of the building safety agenda, such as CIOB, RICS, IStructE and RIBA. CIOB, for example, is well represented as part of the Building Safety Committee and at all stages there is cross-member consultation with its director of policy, external affairs and research, Eddie Tuttle.