This panel session sees a debate on how to raise standards in the construction industry, with a focus on the campaign to launch a mandatory licensing scheme for UK construction. Licensing has the potential to professionalise our sector, encourage new entrants, protect consumers and increase the quality of the built environment. We know that 86% of FMB members and 78% of consumers would support the introduction of a licensing scheme, so is now the right time to push for change?
As it stands anyone can call themselves a builder without proving they have a minimum level of competence. Builders are in a chain of regulated practices: finance to fund projects, architects, insurance, planning permission, building control, even construction products are regulated, but not the user of them. A lack of regulation for the sector undermines all the connected practices that are protected by law.
In this downloadable guide produced from the content of the panel session we explore:
- How a licensing scheme would utilise pre-existing infrastructure to work.
- What other countries already have licensing schemes.
- What the FMB is, and has been doing, to push this scheme to Government.
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The panel
Find out more about the FMB's campaign to license UK construction
Licence UK construction
We are leading the campaign to introduce a mandatory licensing scheme for UK construction firms.
