Steve has over thirty years of experience in the construction distribution sector and has been with SIG plc for the past seventeen years. As SIG UK Compliance Director Steve set up the UK Product Compliance Team in 2021. Prior to this, Steve held numerous senior & operational board positions within SIG including UK Procurement Director, SIGD Procurement Director, Category Director, UK Operations Director & various UK & Regional Director roles for specialist arms of the business, including SIG International & UK B2C E-Commerce businesses.

Steve previously developed the assured product compliance process for SIG in 2011 – a cornerstone of the company’s UK approach to managing construction product accuracy, information & regulatory compliance. His relevant professional experience is expected to provide invaluable expertise as CPI progresses to start its first wave of assessment on construction product information management systems.

A professional leader with a strong technical background. Accumulated a wide array of fire engineering skills over his career and is driven to build a business reputation for providing the highest possible level of service of a fire engineer. Focussed on practical, buildable solutions and identifying issues early on that could otherwise result in designs that cannot feasibly be adopted on site. A firm believer that fire engineers should remain involved with projects through to completion and directly assist in the coordination and implementation of the fire strategy into the designs of others rather than disappearing after producing the fire strategy performance specification.

Dominic joined Danescroft in 2005, became a shareholder alongside company founder and Palmer Capital in 2010 and was promoted to Chief Executive in 2019. Following a restructure towards the end of 2022 Dominic heads up the board alongside James Trelfa and Fiera Real Estate. Danescroft is a property company focused primarily on sourcing sites for promotion and onward development throughout the south of England.

Since 2012, Dominic has had the great pleasure of being a Visiting Fellow at the School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University. He is a Chartered Planning and Development Surveyor and an accomplished professional with 30 years’ experience in property, construction and development. As a principal and shareholder in Danescroft Dominic is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the development management process from inception, planning, design development, construction management and delivery.

Mel has worked for Barratt as Group Fire Safety Engineer since 2021 and has lead on the BSF Charter, working with the multi-disciplinary teams, to align our procedures and standards to the new Gateway process.  Mel started her career in Building Control, supervising work in both private and public sectors and overseeing residential and commercial developments, going on to specialise and pursue further study in Fire Engineering and obtained membership of the Institute of Fire Engineers. Mel represents Barratt working as ‘Early Adopters’ alongside industry colleagues, to embed the new requirements and invoke the Building a Safer Future principles.

Tom has over 20 years’ experience in the construction industry. Starting out as an Offshore Project Engineer, he has worked on a wide range of challenging projects across the globe. These range from building and repairing windfarms in the Irish Sea to drilling intake shafts for desalination schemes on the edge of the Atacama Desert. When the ‘Costa Concordia’ cruise ship sank off Italy in 2012, Tom was a member of the small British team sent to work on the subsea frame beneath the wreck. This line of work involved long periods away from home, and when Tom’s children were born he transferred his skills and experiences from the highly-regulated offshore industry to large-scale homebuilding. Tom joined Persimmon in 2019 as one of their internal building inspectors, and since 2021 he has led the BSF Charter Champion scheme for the business. In 2023 Persimmon established a dedicated Building Safety Department, which Tom now manages for Group.

Hannah Johnston is the Building Safety Coordinator at Salix Homes. Hannah combines her previous experience of working in Neighbourhoods with her knowledge gained over the last 4 years working in Building Safety to ensure that the customer is at the forefront of any decisions made in preparation for new legislation. Hannah’s role has required her to be the key contact between DLUCH and the HSE with Salix Homes when looking at policy design trails for the new regime. Her non-technical background has allowed her to see things from the customer’s viewpoint and ensure that processes implemented at Salix will work both for the organisation and its customers.

Stewart Kerr is the Building Safety Manager at Salix Homes with over 16 years working in compliance. Stewart’s remit is to ensure the implementation of Building Safety and Fire Safety Act alongside any changes to the Building Regulation for the design, construction and occupation of its High-Rise Residential Buildings. As part of an Early Adopter organisation Stewart has been heavily involved with government, residential providers and construction companies in the review of documentation and pilot testing of future requirements for those buildings in scope and what that means for the organisation, its customers and key stakeholders.