Quality Archives - The Institute of Construction Management

Functional Requirements are law ─ Approved Documents are guidance!

Written by David Jones on October 5, 2024. Posted in Building Safety Act, Competence, Compliance, Fire Safety, Legal, Newsletter, Quality, Risk, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Vision Construct 2024 Following the series of major large conference events and, particularly, Vision Construct '23 held at Wembley Stadium at the end of 2023 as the new landscape of construction safety culture was evolving Resibuild Events recently hosted a Roundtable at the Building Centre in...

2022 ─ ICM Celebrating 180 Years since founding in 1842! ─ rising to the challenge of Digital Age Transformation ─ driving the future of a Safe Sector with Competent Organisations! ─ the voice for construction management …

Written by David Jones on January 18, 2022. Posted in Competence, Fire Safety, General Interest, Quality, Registration, Risk, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

"Wow! ─ what an incredible couple of years!" ─ at the start of 2022 David Jones shares our vision bringing the past, present and future into an interesting alignment with anecdotal waypoints along the recent unique ICM timeline ... ... '20/20 Vision' ─ a term used to express normal visual acuity...

Building Safety Bill ─ Draft regulations published

Written by David Jones on October 5, 2021. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Quality, Registration, The ICM Blog, Trademark Licence, Training. Leave a Comment

Draft regulations for delegated powers proposed in the Building Safety Bill, published to assist parliamentarians and others with understanding the contents of the Bill The Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations [2021] SCOPE: CLICK ON THIS LINK TO ACCESS THE...

Technical Due Diligence ─ Redefined by RICS … adopted by ICM too!

Written by David Jones on January 13, 2020. Posted in Competence, General Interest, Quality, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

RICS explain that Technical due diligence of property, when carried out by an RICS member or RICS registered firm, consists of the systematic review, analysis, discovery and gathering of information about the physical characteristics of a property and/or land (the property). The RICS member or RICS...

T Levels – new courses coming in September 2020 – ICM Registration

Written by David Jones on October 9, 2019. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, General Interest, Newsletter, Quality, Registration, The ICM Blog, Training. Leave a Comment

Reforming technical education and developing the T Level qualifications for post-16 students The Institute of Construction Management [ICM] already provide early training on risk management and hazard identification into secondary education at Year-8 Level - and will support and register post-16 students...

Safety, Quality, and Competence must be the focus for everything in construction

Written by David Jones on December 13, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, General Interest, Quality, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

... quality design, quality products, quality services ... and ICM champions quality safety too! ... The ICM fully endorses and supports the general calls from all parts of of the sector to seize the opportunity to change the construction industry in the UK for the better, improving both safety,...

Do competent professionals with ‘soft skills’ perform better?

Written by David Jones on November 25, 2018. Posted in Competence, General Interest, Quality, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Do competent professionals with 'soft skills' perform better? What do soft skills look like? Social awareness; Capacity to embrace change; Emotion regulation; Patience; Perceptiveness; Persistence; Perseverance; Temperament to manage adversity; Growth mindset; Professionalism; Enthusiasm; Drive; Ambition;...

Ban on combustible cladding “does not go far enough” ~ systemic failure of the entire building control system!

Written by David Jones on November 3, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Quality, Registration, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Measures to ban combustible materials on the outside of some buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower Fire do not go far enough, says James Dalton, director of general insurance policy at the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in his keynote address to the FPA Fire Sector Summit on 31st October...

The MOBIE Model – Inspiring the Next Generation

Written by David Jones on October 31, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, General Interest, Quality, The ICM Blog, Training. Leave a Comment

At London Build 2018 the leading construction & design show at London Olympia on 23 October David Jones Director of Education & Training at ICM chaired the conference at the Skills Hub and had the great pleasure to introduce and invite John Mathers who is Trustee of MOBIE: Ministry of Building...

FIRE DOOR SAFETY WEEK ~ make it a competent 24/7/365 ‘All Year Round’ professional habit please!

Written by David Jones on September 25, 2018. Posted in Accreditation, Competence, Fire Safety, Quality, Safety, The ICM Blog. Leave a Comment

Fire Door Safety Week is an annual event which aims to focus on issues around fire doors and fire safety ... smoke usually kills long before fire - powerful short film for Fire Door Safety Week 2018 ... the current 2018 campaign runs 24 - 30 September ... ... the British Woodworking Foundation...

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