22 Oct 2025

Two consultations from ICC and ITFG

Your views invited.

The Industry Competence Committee (ICC) published its principles on competence management and is inviting feedback from industry on its guidance document-Setting Expectations for Competence Management. The ICC principles document is pitched at a high level of ‘what’ is expected of organisations in this area.

The consultation questions can be found here with the documents available by scrolling to the bottom of the page.

Members and affiliates are welcome to respond to the consultation directly. Alternatively, they can send them to [email protected] by Monday 3 November.


As a secondary piece of work, the Industry Task and Finish Group (ITFG) has produced a guidance document based on the ICC’s principles entitled Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide. The ITFG document seeks to help organisations understand in detail ‘how’ to put in place approaches and processes to meet the ICC principles.

The consultation seeks to ensure that the document will provide practical guidance to implement the ICC high-level principles. Feedback is sought on whether the approach included provides useful guidance and tools to that end, or whether there is anything else that should be considered. The anonymous survey will take on average 8 minutes to complete.

Following the consultation period, we will review the feedback with our technical Steering Group, collaborate with the ICC to ensure both guidance documents remain aligned, before getting final sign off from the full ITFG. Once published through members’ channels, the guidance will be an open-source document, accessible to all.

The ITFG draft Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide can be found here and the survey link to respond to the consultation can be accessed here.

Members and affiliates are welcome to submit their own responses directly, alternatively they can send their views to [email protected] by Wednesday 5 November.  

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