A Voice for the Industry

Actuate UK - the engineering services alliance - is the umbrella body for UK engineering services.

It brings together the leading trade, technology and professional bodies within the multi-billion-pound sector: BESA, BSRIA, CIBSE, ECA, FETA, LEIA.

We speak with a single, shared and authoritative voice to affect positive change in the built environment.

Engineering & Building Services Skills Authority unveil work to codify competences & standards for industry

29 January 2024

The Engineering and Building Services Skills Authority (EBSSA) are inviting multiple installer disciplines to begin codifying standards and competences for the sector. This initiative is part of wider industry and government efforts to ‘raise the bar’ on individual competence within the built environment in line with the new post-Grenfell competence regime established by the Building Safety Act.

Actuate UK welcomes Autumn Statement announcements on prompt payment reporting

28 November 2023

Actuate UK, has welcomed the Government’s Prompt Payment reporting review announcement which was part of the Autumn Statement last week.

Actuate UK warns on changes to Net Zero policies

21 September 2023

The Prime Minister’s announcement yesterday (20/9/23) signals unpredictability and creates uncertainty for the many businesses in the engineering services sector investing, or looking to invest, in net zero transition. When it comes to plotting the route to a net zero 2050, industry needs certainties and targets that will incentivise such change, enable development of new skills, create new job opportunities and grow the green economy.