Join Firntec, Ventro, and LivGreen at the Building Compliance & Retrofit Summit 2025.
Be part of a dynamic full day event bringing together three industry leaders, Ventro, Firntec, and LivGreen, each offering expert insight into critical areas: Passive and Active Fire Safety, Building Compliance, and Retrofit & Decarbonisation.
Tailored specifically to the Housing and Healthcare sectors, the summit features thought-provoking talks from leading experts, exploring current challenges, legislative insights, and future innovations. It’s a unique opportunity to connect, collaborate, and spark new ideas with professionals across these vital sectors.
Expect a day filled with meaningful discussion, high-value networking, and cross-sector collaboration that drives real change.
Details for the event
📍QEII, Westminster, London
📆 Thursday 16th October 2025
🕤 9:00 – 17:00
Firntec provides expert surveying, consultancy and project management services to clients across the United Kingdom.
Known for its nationwide reach and collaborative approach, Firntec supports both public and private sector organisations in achieving compliance, improving safety, and delivering long-term value.
Flexibility and partnership are central to Firntec’s way of working. The team tailors each project to the unique needs of its clients, combining technical expertise with practical delivery to ensure outcomes that are both effective and efficient.
Keeping pace with changes in fire safety legislation can be a challenge. For many organisations, it’s not always clear whether their current arrangements meet the latest standards.
Ventro provides a clear and practical solution, offering reliable guidance and end-to-end services that ensure safety and compliance across all building types.
Beyond project delivery, Ventro continues to support its clients through regular educational sessions and industry webinars. These provide timely updates on evolveing legislation and best practices, enabling clients to remain proactive in their fire safety responsibilities and confident in their compliance position.
We are a leading provider of retrofit residential decarbonisation across the UK. Specialising in social housing and residential properties, we oversee and execute large-scale energy efficiency projects, low-carbon technology installations, and full-house retrofit schemes, all in compliance with MCS, PAS:2030, and PAS:2035 standards.
We provide a comprehensive, full-service retrofit solution through a structured 5-step approach from initial assessments and funding support to design, installation, and ongoing monitoring.
Full agenda to be announced soon.
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Howard joined the FPA in 1992 and has held a multitude of roles as the organisation has grown including Training/Information Officer, Director of Operations, and Deputy Managing Director. He trained formally as a land surveyor before spending 8 years in the construction industry in his early career and has since spent considerable time in the FPA’s fire advisory division. He is among our most experienced and respected fire risk assessors.
In 2024 Howard decided to take semi-retirement and stepped down from the FPA Board to focus his efforts on technical fire safety projects, predominantly for our fire and risk services department and RISCAuthority on a part time basis. His varied and thorough knowledge ensures that the needs of our customers and the industry remain the focus of the FPA’s initiatives to move the fire safety agenda forward.
Howard has a BEng (Hons) in Fire Engineering and is a Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE), a Fellow of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM), and is registered on the Nationally Accredited Fire Risk Assessors Register (NFRAR) at Tier 3.
Anthony has worked in both the public and private sector within the built environment and has a career which includes working in insurance and as a risk manager for a global tour operator.
Anthony serves on the Industry Competence Committee (standing committee of the BSR), CPB/1 ( the BSI’s committee for oversight of standards across the built environment), and is Chair of the Building Safety Alliance. He also serves on a number of professional body’s H&S/Fire safety committees.
It is most important that we raise individual competence, across the sector, and the volume of competent people. Anthony is heavily involved in developing standards for Organisational Capability – ( the management of competence across an organisation or project) – in order to clarify what it means, how an organisation may put a system in place and evidence that it works, and how organisations will be expected to respond in the near future.
Mark is Senior Partner at Devonshires and heads up the Construction, Engineering and Procurement team.
Mark specialises in dispute resolution work which involves litigation in the Technology and Construction Court, adjudication and arbitration. This work covers all aspects of construction and asset management. Mark also advises clients on all aspects of European procurement law and regularly acts for contracting authorities and economic operators in procurement disputes.
Mark also has experience advising clients on health and safety law and assists with accident investigations, prosecutions and drafting health and safety policies and procedures.
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