{"id":8086,"date":"2025-09-26T08:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:47:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T08:47:02","slug":"besa-president-calls-on-firms-to-step-up-and-drive-culture-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/besa-president-calls-on-firms-to-step-up-and-drive-culture-change\/","title":{"rendered":"BESA president calls on firms to step up and drive culture change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new president of the Building Engineering Services Association has told contractors to stop waiting for government action and start driving cultural change themselves.<\/p>\n

Pete Curtis of Briggs & Forrester, elected BESA president for 2025\/26, used his inaugural speech in London to urge firms to sign up to the association\u2019s new Member Pledge \u2013 a commitment to embed competence throughout business operations and inspire supply chains to do the same.<\/p>\n

Curtis said: \u201cIt\u2019s easy to call on government to do something. But we all have influence \u2013 over our people, our processes and the way we build. We must use that to change things for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With more than 35 years at Briggs & Forrester, Curtis highlighted building safety compliance, digital investment and tackling skills shortages as his presidential priorities.<\/p>\n

He warned the sector faces a critical threat from an ageing workforce, falling training provision and a lack of assessors to support apprenticeships.<\/p>\n

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Curtis said he would expand BESA\u2019s \u2018Skills Legacy\u2019 programme, encouraging experienced engineers to share knowledge with colleges and trainees.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cMany engineers underestimate the value of their experience. Sharing that knowledge is one of the best ways to give something back to the industry \u2013 and a vital step in making sure our sector has a future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/AwUtVYD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new president of the Building Engineering Services Association has told contractors to stop waiting for government action and start driving cultural change themselves. Pete Curtis of Briggs & Forrester, elected BESA president for 2025\/26, used his inaugural speech in London to urge firms to sign up to the association\u2019s new Member Pledge \u2013 a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8087,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}