Business & Management

Maintaining your professional competency is key to your membership and keeping up to date with a rapidly changing industry.

On 28 April 2023, the CABE Malaysia Chapter hosted its annual international conference in Kuala Lumpur with the theme Embedding Sustainability. The event was jointly organised by the Lighthouse Club Kuala Lumpur, a charity that provides emotional, physical and financial wellbeing support to construction workers and their families.

The value of ecosystems has fallen outside our current economic framework – but Nick Heasman, South Downs National Park Authority’s Countryside and Policy Manager, has a plan to change that

CIBSE’s Build2Perform Live and CABE’s new Built Environment LIVE will take place together at London’s ExCeL in December 2023. It will feature free-to-attend discussions and presentations on key issues impacting building services and the wider performance of the built environment.

CABE was honoured to be invited to exhibit at the inaugural BSR Conference as the only professional body present.

CABE is pleased to announce that the recently appointed Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) Deputy Chief Inspector of Buildings, Chris Griffin-McTiernan, will give the opening keynote address at the upcoming debut Built Environment England conference.

As I sit down to write this, my last welcome message as President, I am so grateful to have had this opportunity and to have met with so many members at various events.

CABE’s Asia-Pacific conference shone a spotlight on industry trends and specific challenges facing construction professionals in the region through a range of knowledgeable and experienced speakers

Zoe Cox, FCABE FHEA Grad IOSH MSc PGCE BSc BA, Head of Training and Development Quadrant Building Control and newly-elected CABE Vice President

Caerphilly County Borough Council has endorsed proposals to take part in the Welsh government’s National Empty Home Grant scheme, which will see £2.54m available to return privately owned empty homes back into use.

The #IAmCEnv campaign is a social media campaign to raise to raise awareness of the Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) registration. SocEnv wants to give registrants a way to highlight their amazing work, helping to inspire other professionals to seek out the CEnv registration.

The government has announced more than £42m in funding over the next three years to support the recruitment and training of Building Control Inspectors and Fire Inspectors working with the Building Safety Regulator.

Since my last journal message, I have attended two major CABE events.

Dr Mark Key, author of Building Regulations, Codes and Standards: A guide for safe, sustainable and healthy development, explains why and how global building standards need to find common ground

Hong Kong-based Chartered Engineer Betty K Y Lo CEng C Build E MCABE on the challenges in her profession

It saddens me to pass on the news that Michael Mann, CABE’s former Engineering Council Liaison Officer and last year’s recipient of the Peter Stone Award, has recently passed away.

Due to the continuous shift in the industry and emerging demands following the Covid-19 pandemic, the requirements for face-to-face events have changed. There is now a need to modernise and adapt our events to meet the needs of both industry and our members.

Wates Group’s Projects Manager Glyn Williams has won Site Manager of the Year at the annual Local Authority Building Control (LABC) Excellence Awards.