New BESA president criticises industry ‘lip service’ commitment to building safety regime

By Tom Lowe2025-09-26T11:05:00

Pete Curtis calls on sector’s firms to ‘do something’ to improve compliance amid ongoing gateway 2 delays

The new president of the Building Engineering Services Association has called on its members to stop complaining about the new building safety regime and “do something” to increase compliance.

Pete Curtis questioned whether the services sector had “played our part” in ensuring better building safety as he described assurances about embracing a new culture of professionalism in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire as “lip service”.

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