Drylining Working Group
Bringing the supply chain (contractors, suppliers and manufacturers) and key stakeholders to support members with a focus on resolving common issues, raising standards and being driving force for change.
What is the FIS Drylining Working Group?
The FIS Drylining Working Group was formed to address issues that were common to those working in the drylining sector. It provides a platform for action to focus on skills and competency, technical standards and specification and common working practices within the supply chain. The group is supported by the FIS team with the direction of the group and core activities set and agreed by the membership.
This group is open to all members of FIS and invited guests. The objectives of the group are to:
- Improve quality and building safety
- Promote best practice in the market
- A fully qualified and competent workforce
- Educate and inform clients and specifiers about drylining work
- Shape the market so underpin the importance of correct adherence to standards
- Improve main contractor relations
- Monitor and provide collective response to technical, commercial and legal issues as they arise
- Promote FIS members
- Drive sustainability and productivity in the supply chain
What are the key issues that the group is looking to address?
The group has a number of workflows being led through small subgroups (these are made up of members of the working group, the FIS team and, where appropriate external stakeholders and experts. Current live projects include:
- Developing a common competency framework for drylining operatives and supervisors
- Update and establish appropriate workmanship and supervisory standards
- Looking at alternative ways to improve the health and safety of operatives on site
- Promoting and interrogating potential innovation in the supply chain
- Reducing plasterboard waste
Working Group Meetings
Meetings are open to all members of the FIS and invited guests (prior confirmation of attendance is essential).
Date of Next Meeting
The next meeting of the group will be held in Spring 2025.
Minutes of previous meetings are available to members on request via email to info@thefis.org
To find a drylining contractor or installer who is a vetted member of FIS click here
Key Resources
Drylining Quality Checklist – This quality check list for drylining has been produced by members of the FIS drylining working group to help members assess risk during the project and provide a detailed quality check list throughout the installation process. It has been designed to encompass a wide and detailed range of question which you may choose to consolidate depending on the performance of the drylining, the evidence you have been asked or wish to provide and the known experience and competency of the teams.
The Group is responsible for the development of the Best Practice Guide: Installation of Drylining, the Drylining Pre-Construction Guide, the Drylining Site Guide and the Drylining Specification Guide.
Due to issues raised by this Group FIS has worked with colleagues from across the Construction Sector to develop the Guide to Fire Stopping of Service Penetrations, Walls as A System and the Manual Handling Guide: Safe handling of plasterboard and Site Ingress of Plasterboard Guide – for more information on this activity contact the FIS team.
FIS also produce a range of Factsheets many of which impact and are hence reviewed by experts in our Drylining Working Group
To find out more about joining the Drylining Working Group
If you are a member of the FIS already, simply contact the FIS on info@thefis.org or call 0121 707 0077 and ask to be added to the circulation list (or book to attend the next meeting and you will be automatically added). If you want to find out more about joining the FIS – click here