Guide to Products Critical to Safe Construction

Summary

Please note: this event is for over 18’s only.

Join the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and experts Lorna Hagan and Chris Miles for an overview of our Guide to Products Critical to Safe Construction

The public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire exposed a construction product regulatory regime that was failing to ensure that the products used in buildings, whether separately or part of a system, were safe.

Following on from the findings of the Building a Safer Future: Final Report and the Independent Review of Product Testing and Certification (the Morrell-Day Review), the inquiry recommended that further action was needed to better regulate the manufacturing, testing and supply of products in the UK.

In February 2025, the government published a Construction Product Reform Green Paper that sets out its proposals to deliver a system that guarantees safe products, safely used. It is against this backdrop that the CIOB, in collaboration with the CPA, CCPI, IStructE and RIBA, has developed this Guide.

This webinar provides designers, specifiers and installers with an overview of the information and tools they need to make the right decisions when selecting products and systems, and uses examples and case studies to signpost industry best practice, such as the Code for Construction Product Information.

Our aim is to ensure that the buildings we create, and the products that we use in those buildings, are safe for those who use them, now and in the future.

There will also be a Q&A at the end of the presentation hosted by David Barnes, CIOB Head of Policy and Public Affairs UK.

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Speakers

David Barnes, Head of Policy and Public Affairs, The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)

Lorna Hagan, Civil Engineer & Chartered Quality Practitioner at ConstructTuition

Chris Miles, Lead Assessor at Code for Construction Product Information

Online Platform

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Contact

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