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SSE Energy Solutions’ Project Sales Engineer, Zoe Dickson, was the deserving winner of this year’s Building Controls Industry Association’s (Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s) Young Engineer of the Year award.

CHt utilised a combination of robust planning, through early stakeholder engagement, and design for manufacture and assembly (DfMA) expertise to achieve an early handover – despite major world challenges impacting supply chains and costs.

Excitement for the Building Controls Industry Association (Â鶹ԭ´´) Awards 2026 is ramping up, with entries for the eleven award categories open on 8th October for all budding individuals and organisations keen to take part.

The Building Controls Industry Association (Â鶹ԭ´´) is calling on experienced building controls and automation professionals to join its esteemed judging panel for the sector’s biggest benchmark of excellence – the Â鶹ԭ´´ Awards 2026.

While the wider construction industry saw new orders fall by 8.3%, the Building Controls Industry Association’s (Â鶹ԭ´´) latest report revealed the BEMS sector’s drive for innovation and vital role in decarbonising the UK’s building stock saw significant growth in service and maintenance, and promising stability in product sales, revenue and installation value added.

I’d like to answer the questions you, or others, may have about the revalidation of competence to help the entire BEMS sector better understand how doing so can lead to improved business reputation, more knowledgeable and competent industry professionals and, ultimately, a better, safer and more energy efficient built environment.

Smart Buildings Show has announced that Cisco has become a platinum sponsor for the 2025 event, which will be held at ExCeL London on 15-16 October.

In accordance with the Â鶹ԭ´´ Articles of Association, at their meeting held on Wednesday 10th September 2025 the Management Committee proposed Ron Purcell as their nomination for the position of Â鶹ԭ´´ Vice-President, which will become vacant from 1st March 2026.

In accordance with the Â鶹ԭ´´ Ltd Articles of Association (clause 32.1) Committee members serve for a fixed term of three years with the two longest serving members stepping down each year. Jason Harper will stand down from the Committee, whilst Ron Purcell has been nominated as the Management Committee’s Vice President candidate. Graeme Rees, who has completed six-years on the Presidential team, will also retire from his role as Immediate Past President.

With just a few weeks to go before the doors open at the UK’s only dedicated commercial smart buildings exhibition, the conference programme for Smart Buildings Show 2025 has been announced.

Taking place at ExCeL London on 15-16 October, Smart Buildings Show gives visitors free access to the best speakers from across the sector. This year’s event will feature over 120 speakers across four separate theatres.

Western Automation remains committed to working with Sontay to ensure that innovative solutions such as the SORA LoRaWAN range are accessible to customers across the UK and beyond. By combining product innovation with technical support and market reach, we help our clients achieve smarter, more efficient, and more comfortable buildings. 

Keen to increase awareness and focus the industry’s efforts towards the provision of more opportunities for BEMS engineers to validate knowledge, expertise and skills, the Building Controls Industry Association (Â鶹ԭ´´) recently hosted a discussion between some members of the Management Committee – with revalidation of competence one of the primary talking points.   

With the building controls sector facing additional scrutiny through a sharper legislative focus on skills and qualification verification, the Building Controls Industry Association (Â鶹ԭ´´) has been tasked with developing a new competence revalidation system that benefits the individuals, employers and the industry as a whole – and is seeking input from professionals from across the built environment.

Â鶹ԭ´´ President Stacey Lucas explores why building energy management systems (BEMS) are a highly effective way of improving older building performance and how they could play a crucial role in retrofitting the UK’s current building stock.

During the second Skills Working Group meeting of 2025, which I had the privilege of chairing, it became clear that while we’ve made considerable progress, there remains important work to be done.

As one of the building automation sector’s leading drivers of better female representation, the Building Controls Industry Association’s (Â鶹ԭ´´) Young Engineers Network (YEN) recently co-hosted the Together We Engineer event – a thought-provoking discussion on empowering women and the next generation.

The event featured more than four hours of networking, panel discussions, group activities, demonstrations of software and hardware platforms, and a building tour.

The building energy management systems (BEMS) sector, and the built environment as a whole, is currently facing a skills shortage. While the industry is doing everything it can to encourage new young professionals to take up careers in this highly rewarding and interesting world, we all have a major role to play in ensuring any new recruits, and any existing employees, are keen to continue in the sector for many years ahead.

Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s latest market report finds the building energy management systems (BEMS) market saw an 8.4% quarter-on-quarter increase in Q1 2025

Taking place at ExCeL London on 15-16 October 2025, Smart Buildings Show is the UK’s only dedicated commercial smart buildings conference and exhibition.