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and change control regime, including when doing refurbishment, will also affect care homes and hospitals. Anyone wanting to go on a fire door replacement programme must brush up on the building control application process and the substitution rules coming down the line. As for the golden thread, we pressed the government to mandate an information structure and data schema, and to outline a pathway towards a national built environment data vision for the next 15 years if the principle of interoperability is to deliver on the objective of supporting building risk management decisions for safety. Calling for such a mandate is one thing; now we need to collaborate across the sector to deliver on the existing solutions for all and to raise awareness of meeting information requirements.
PRO G RE SSING THE PROFESSION
Setting up for 2023
Back to the present
Looking at what’s next for building safety and sustainability in FM against a backdrop of political instability
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ctober 2023 is set to be a crunch date for building safety across a range of buildings that our members manage. Although it may seem a long time off, it leaves less than a year to start meeting key requirements. This is especially so with information management requirements, the first of which will need to be delivered from early 2023. Accountable persons will need to start registering their buildings and submit certain building information from April 2023, and most new duty holder, competence and golden thread requirements will need to be met by October 2023.
KEY CONTACTS Sofie Hooper Head of Policy
With IWFM having submitted our consultation response on the new golden thread requirements in occupation and design and construction phases, the next few months will see us engage more actively again with policymakers on how the policies in the consultation will translate in the actual secondary legislation. In addition to that engagement role, we’ll also need to ensure we keep members updated. All too often we hear that only residential is affected, but this is not the case. The new rules for occupation will also cover student accommodation, and the new and more rigorous building control
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION FOCUS GROUP ● An updated public statement that builds our voice and support for colleagues will be issued for 2023. BUILDING SAFETY ACT ● Secondary legislation expected for April 2023, with duties for accountable persons and competence
applicable from October 2023. PAS 8673 ● PAS 8673 Built environment – Competence requirements for management of safety in residential buildings was published in July. SCOPE 3 EMISSIONS GUIDANCE PROJECT
Moving back to 2022, by the time of publication we may know more about the new government’s economic direction. The reversed ‘mini-budget’ didn’t inspire confidence in ‘green’ growth ambitions, and with COP27 taking place, the focus will be on the existential need to step up actions on climate change and net zero. As government policy has seemingly deprioritised ‘green’ despite and because of the economic and energy crises, FMs will need to make good on their potential to deliver much-needed mitigation and even reversal of carbon impacts. As an institute, there are several tools in the pipeline so our members can be supported in their unique role where they bring together the needs of landlords, end users, and the supply chain, and change their organisations’ impact in the climate stakes.
● Various SIGs are supporting SFMI’s project for standardised alignment of measuring scope 3 emissions to decarbonising FM services. FIRE SAFETY (ENGLAND) REGULATIONS 2022 ● These regulations contain information requirements, including provision of a secure information box,
applicable from 23 January 2023. NEC CONTRACTS ● NEC4 FMC practice notes on TUPE and asset data are due to be published soon. GET INVOLVED ● Our policy work is informed by members’ priorities. Share your views at: policy@iwfm.org.uk
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