HVCA BECOMES B&ES ON 1 MARCH 2012
3 February 2012 – The Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA) is rebranding and from 1 March 2012 will be known as the Building & Engineering Services Association (B&ES).
The HVCA, established in 1904 as the National Association of Master Heating and Domestic Engineers, adopted the HVCA name in 1963.
Bob Shelley, President of the HVCA comments, “ Back then, of course, that’s exactly how the majority of the members would have described themselves – as h&v contractors – with the result that the name of their representative body accurately reflected the services they provided to the marketplace.
“These days, however, things are very different. The term ‘h&v’ barely scratches the surface of the diverse, sophisticated and highly complex nature of the work our members now undertake.
“Nor does it even hint at the increasingly central role they play in the integration of engineering services in buildings – and especially in the incorporation of the renewable technologies that are clearly here to stay in our increasingly environmentally-conscious age.
“It is also the case that, today, our membership embraces many other specialisms – ventilation hygiene, heat pumps and facilities management, to name but a few – all of which sit comfortably under the ‘building and engineering services’ identity”.
Looking to the future, Mr Shelley said, “Rebranding is just one element in a re-positioning exercise that will enable this Association to provide its members with a wider range of services, enhance its influence with Government, and provide a natural home for all building engineering services specialists.
“I am convinced that, as B&ES, we shall be ideally placed to become just such an organisation”.
From 1 March, when the B&ES identity is formally adopted, the new website address will be: http://www.b-es.org.
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Notes to Editors
After the 1 March 2012 the HVCA will be known as B&ES (the Building & Engineering Services Association). Its membership comprises over 1,500 companies with 2,000 offices throughout the UK, a combined turnover of in excess of £4bn and a workforce of 55,000. Association members are subject to regular, third-party inspection and assessment of their technical competence and commercial capability.
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