BESA suspends more members
The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has suspended five member companies for failing to comply with its independent audit process. This follows the suspension of 14 other firms in 2025.
The Association’s Council, whose members are responsible for BESA’s governance and ensuring that it continues to meet the vision and values of its founders, said it was taking this step as part of its ongoing campaign to improve technical and professional standards across the building engineering sector.
The five companies failed to reach the standard required to meet BESA’s Competence Assessment Standard (CAS), which covers business practices, financial solvency, insurance, health & safety, and technical proficiency. Firms applying to join BESA or remain in membership must meet and continue to meet the standard.
BESA’s process is also aligned with the industry benchmark provided by the Build UK Common Assessment Standard and supports the UK government’s ambition to improve construction standards and protect building users under the Building Safety Act.
“BESA has never been afraid to robustly defend its remit and constitution,” said CEO David Frise. “We do not suspend members lightly but take our wider responsibilities to the industry and its ultimate clients – building occupants – extremely seriously.
“It might seem counterintuitive for a membership body to suspend or reject companies, but membership needs to stand for something. We would always favour quality over quantity, and we now have more companies waiting to join – so sticking to our principles is working.”
The Association said its current pass rate for the CAS audit, i.e. those companies achieving zero non-compliance at audit, was 62%. It said this demonstrated the system was “robust” and that several companies still had work to do to ensure they could meet their legal and ethical responsibilities. BESA also recently launched a Member Pledge initiative when several of its largest and most prominent members signed an agreement to put professional and technical competence at the heart of their operations and mandate their supply chains to do the same.
