INDUSTRY NEWS
BEAMA LAUNCHES UPDATED VENTILATION WHITE PAPER
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head of New Building Regulations on Ventilation coming into force this summer
and the Government’s wider COVID- 19 and Net Zero Strategy, BEAMA has launched its updated 2022 Ventilation White Paper.
The dossier sets out a 4-step policy pathway for the future to deliver eff ective ventilation and improved indoor air quality (IAQ) inside UK homes in order to help protect health and wellbeing. To avoid the serious risk of creating a major public health burden by sealing pollutants and viruses in our homes, the White Paper makes it clear that we must adopt a ‘Ventilate when you Insulate’ approach, ensuring that energy effi ciency and ventilation improvements go hand-in-hand, and poor-quality installations of ventilation systems and poor compliance are rooted out. The document covers the impacts of poor IAQ, the positive eff ect
of ventilation on health, and the challenges we face, before outlining four policy solutions to take the country forward:
1. Set higher ventilation standards for new builds to protect health and wellbeing
2. Ensure energy effi c ency retrofi
ciencyi
retrofi ts are accompanied by ventilation measures to protect health and wellbeing 3. Drive ventilation
compliance standards
4. Treat poor IAQ and poor ventilation as a public health emergency and, in addition to public education campaigns on the risks and
solutions, make sure it is enshrined in all relevant policy areas Keith Ritchie, chair of the BEAMA
Ventilation Group stated: “While progress on ventilation and IAQ has been made over the last four years, much more still needs to be done to integrate, regulate and improve ventilation standards. This 2022 version of our Ventilation White Paper represents a timely update that urges Government to act without delay.”
WARNING OF NET ZERO SKILLS SHORTAGE
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ctuate UK, the voice of Building Engineering Services, warn that skills shortages are hampering ambitions to deliver Net Zero emission buildings. While the number of engineering services apprentices starting out in England in 2022 is back to pre-COVID levels, many more new starters are needed if we are to achieve net zero by 2050. As the 15th National Apprenticeship Week took place last month, there was good news for the sector. Building engineering services make up almost half (42%) of this year’s construction intake, but labour remains in short supply. To build homes fi t for the future, with integrated design, energy effi ciency and smart technologies, new talent is needed. To tackle the challenges ahead, a more diverse workforce, with fresh outlooks and bright ideas is the only way to make net zero a viable reality. Helen Yeulet, representing Actuate UK Skills Group said: “There is much to
celebrate in this year’s National Apprenticeship Week. We welcome the large number of new recruits starting out in our sector. But, as one of the fastest growing industries responding to climate change, we can’t be complacent. We need more investment in training across the sector to achieve the UK’s Net Zero targets. Industry and government must work together to overcome the skills shortage and deliver the much needed homes of the future”.
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