2MCM in full support of new Building Safety Bill

August 7, 2021

The new Building Safety Bill has landed, so lets do our best to bring about the positive change it wants to bring to our sector.

2MCM are pleased to see the support given to the new Building Safety Bill . This robust package of legislative changes, in response to Dame Judith Hakitt's independent report "Building a Safer Future" issued in 2018,  will aim to bring about positive change in modifying behaviours  of those working in the built environment. The UK Government currently cites on their gov.org website that, "The risk to the public from fire is low and has decreased over recent years, but the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower Fire made clear that the current regime leaves too much space for poor practice, poor culture, poor accountability and poor management to take root". 2MCM are great believers in growth mindset and we hope all our close associates in the infrastructure sector adapt a positive outlook when seeking better ways to close up the accountability gaps and finding ways to improve our management culture.  For example, when faced with programme pressure lets all collectively try not to underestimate the  importance of good detailed design and having the wilpower to give it the time/resource level it really deserves. Good design needs reasonable time to make the right engineering choices especially when it comes to selecting products from a hugely vast array of options, then ensuring there is correct test data and, if expertise is sought from qualified individuals then engagement of their input needs to start earlier in the process so avoiding knowledge bypass. We as a business reflect regularly on our standards and therefore would like to think our current methods sit equal to or above the standards the Building Safety Bill will bring in for strengthening the regulation of construction products. We will, like many other professionals in our sector, look forward to reading the key definitions soon to be introduced in the forthcoming secondary legislation, which will identify in more detail how we work towards significant improvements in building safety. 
The Building Safety Bill can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/building-safety-bill.
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