Building standards - workforce data collection: analysis report 2023

Provides a national-level view of the challenges facing the building standards profession in relation to resourcing, development of competencies and levels of turnover.


10.0 Professional Membership

10.1. The number of staff with professional membership has increased by 4 since 2022. See Table 6.

10.2. There is a small decrease in the number of memberships for RICS (-1) and iFire (-1), and a slight increase in CABE (+1) and RTPi (+1).

Table 6: Professional Memberships
Membership 2021 2022 2023 Difference from 2022 (+/-)
CABE 92 93 94 +1
CIAT 7 4 4 0
CIBSE 2 0 0 0
CIOB 34 33 33 0
iFire 6 6 5 -1
iStructE 3 2 2 0
RIAS 5 5 5 0
RICS 95 82 81 -1
RTPi (Planning) 15 16 17 +1
Other Construction Related Professional Body 12 5 9 +4
Total 271 246 250 +4
Illustration 5 – Professional Memberships Held
A bar chart presenting the number of professional memberships held by permanent employees, by professional body

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