A consultation has been launched on new draft guidance for managing competence in the built environment.
The Industry Task and Finish Group on the management of competence in organisations (ITFG) is inviting feedback on its document, Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide, until 10 November 2025.
The ITFG was created in June 2025 to collaborate on guidance that will support organisations across the sector to manage the competence of individuals, engaging with the Industry Competence Committee (ICC), which was formed under the Building Safety Act 2022.
The resulting draft guidance aims to follow the principles in the recently published ICC consultation document.
“The draft guidance seeks to help organisations understand how to put in place processes to meet the Industry Competence Committee principles.”
Meeting ICC principles
“While the ICC principles document is pitched at a high level of ‘what’ is expected of organisations in this area, the ITFG document follows these principles and seeks to help organisations understand in detail how to put in place approaches and processes to meet the ICC principles,” said Sofie Hooper, chair of the IFTG and deputy CEO of the Association for Project Safety.
“The broad representation in the ITFG aims to ensure that the wide-ranging needs of all types and size of organisations are met.”
The consultation aims to ensure that the document will provide practical guidance to implement the ICC high-level principles. Feedback is sought on whether the approach included provides useful guidance and tools to that end, or whether there is anything else that should be considered.
The ITFG and the ICC will present both guidance documents at a webinar on 30 October, 10am-11am. It is open to anyone interested in organisational management of competence.
“Following the consultation period, the IFTG will review the feedback with our technical Steering Group, collaborate with the ICC to ensure both guidance documents remain aligned, before getting final sign off from the full ITFG,” said Hooper. “Once published through members’ channels, the guidance will be an open-source document, accessible to all.”
The ITFG draft guidance – Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide – can be found here.
The ITFG consultation survey, and all documents, can be found here.
