The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is searching for a range of professionals to join its Building Advisory Committee (BAC).
This is to strengthen the committee’s role in providing advice and ensuring continued and sustainable improvement to building safety.
The Building Advisory Committee, established under the Building Safety Act 2022, puts residents’ safety and confidence at the heart of its advice.
It provides independent advice and information to BSR, helping ensure robust evidence and critical thinking inform policy decisions that protect people and improve building safety standards.
This recruitment will broaden expertise and refresh membership as both BSR and building safety evolves.
It is an opportunity to contribute independent advice, systems thinking, equitable and innovative protection methods to the committee’s work.
Currently chaired by Dr Barbara Lane, who has nearly 30 years’ experience in engineering and building safety and served as an expert witness to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the Building Advisory Committee is committed to strengthening its role as a vital source of information.
To expand and support work of the committee, applications are being sought from a variety of different sectors including:
- academic
- design
- construction
- housing
- risk management
- safety and regulatory spheres
The committee will provide evidence, advice and information from across the built environment, reflecting the whole building life cycle, and the broad range of disciplines and trades upon which effective safety and risk management relies.
It is seeking dynamic individuals who can help shape the committee’s future work and contribute to improving outcomes across the built environment through independent advice, insight and constructive challenge.
Dr Barbara Lane, Chair of the Building Advisory Committee, said: “The building safety landscape is continuing to evolve, bringing new challenges, opportunities and expectations of the construction industry.
Dr Lane added: “Joining the Building Advisory Committee offers a unique opportunity to contribute to work of national importance and help shape the future of building safety.
“You will engage with experts from a broad range of disciplines, demonstrating the rigorous approach that drives well-founded independent advice. This will ensure better regulatory outcomes and improvements in safety for everyone in the built environment.
“The urgent need for both new homes and for work to remediate defective homes, requires a radical commitment to creating practical safety measures.”
Charlie Pugsley, Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Building Safety Regulator, said: “The Building Advisory Committee is both practical and influential, and offers a unique opportunity to utilise professional expertise for real-world challenges and to help shape the future of the built environment.
He added: “Building on the appointment of Dr Lane as Independent Chair, we are looking for new members who will bring fresh thinking, deep expertise and constructive challenge.
“This will help to support BSR’s strategic aim of enabling the building of safe new homes, raising standards in existing homes, and helping to create a culture where safety and accountability, as well as transparency, are part of everyday practice in the built environment.”
