The Industry Task and Finish Group on the management of competence in organisations (ITFG) has launched its short consultation on its draft guidance Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide. Feedback is welcomed until 10 November 2025.
The ITFG was pulled together in June 2025, to collaborate on guidance that will support organisations across the sector to manage competence of individuals, engaging with the Industry Competence Committee (ICC). The resulting output is a consensus document that follows the principles in the recently published ICC Consultation document. While the ICC principles document is pitched at a high level of ‘what’ is expected of organisations in this area, the ITFG document follows these principles and seeks to help organisations understand in detail ‘how’ to put in place approaches and processes to meet the ICC principles.
The broad representation in the ITFG aims to ensure that the wide-ranging needs of all types and size of organisations are met. More information about the terms of reference of the ITFG and who are collaborating in the ITFG can be found here
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.
The ITFG and the ICC will present both guidance documents at a webinar on 30th October 10-11am. It is open to anyone interested in organisational management of competence. You can register for the webinar here
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The ITFG draft guidance – Managing Competence in the Built Environment: A Guide – can be found here
The ITFG consultation survey, and all documents, can be found here
Webinar registration: please find the link here