Neville Grunwald of Wates Group, Darren Burford of ALUK and Graham Hackley of Century Facades join Dan Brown and Martin Sadler of GQA Qualifications to discuss the necessary culture change for high-rise, high-risk envelope contracting in the shadow of the Grenfell Tragedy and The Building Safety Act.

Using sector statistics and experience in façade-contracting, this animated discussion explores the role of accredited training and appropriate qualifications for individuals, the responsibilities of construction product manufacturers, considers the additional demands of specialist envelope subcontractors on their supply chain, and how the demands and penalties enabled through the Building Safety Act will bring a new dawn to the awarding of HRB contracts by principal contractors.

In this episode, Dan Brown asks, ‘how prepared are you to raise the bar on building safety’?

Part 1 – Referring to the Construction Products Association’s sector survey as a base-line, the panel are not shocked to hear some of the statistics in relation to product training and site support and they reflect on the responsibilities product manufacturers should have for the correct application of their products on buildings through their partners. 

The panel discuss whether those product manufacturers who take their training responsibilities seriously will take the commercial advantage within the new regulatory Gateway framework of The Building Safety Act, and we hear our first warnings from the panel about the devastating repercussions of awarding contracts to incompetent sub-contractors incapable of validating their product, skills, knowledge and behavioural competency and the risk it poses to them personally through the penalty-enabling powers of the Building Safety Act!