BESA Suspends 14 Members for Compliance Failures

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24 June 2025 | Updated 25 June 2025

The Building Engineering Services Association has suspended 14 member companies for failing to comply with audits.

The 14 companies failed to meet the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA)’s Competence Assessment Standard (CAS). The BESA Council uses the standard to audit new members on joining, at the end of their first year and every three years.

The audit covers business practices, financial solvency, insurance, health and safety, and technical proficiency and includes an on-site technical audit based on checklists linked to the latest technical standards.

“BESA has never been afraid to robustly defend its remit and constitution,” said Chief Executive Officer David Frise. “We do not suspend members lightly but take our wider responsibilities to the industry and its ultimate clients – building occupants – extremely seriously.

“Last week’s Grenfell: Uncovered documentary on Netflix was a timely reminder of why we must do everything we can to maintain the highest possible standards. It should remind us that every decision we make has a consequence – whether in the short-term or much further down the road for the people who inhabit buildings.

“The country should be able to depend on its building services industry to deliver work to the highest possible standards.

“We have never been afraid to suspend members who don’t meet our standards. It is always a last resort as we would much rather work with companies to help them improve, but when it is clear that is not possible, we have demonstrated that we will take the ultimate sanction.”

Picture: a photograph of David Frise. Image Credit: BESA

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 24 June 2025

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