Presentation by Cathie Clarke, Ronan Brunton, Mark Thornton of SPRA at the Single Ply Roofing Association Conference 2019 at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire.
More information:https://spra.co.uk/events/spra-awards-2019-live-blog/
What's the Risk? Looking Back - Facing Forward #SPRAConference2019
1. SPRA 2019
WHAT’S THE RISK? LOOKING BACK – FACING FORWARD
working for our members, EDUCATING, INFLUENCING and SUPPORTING the single ply industry
2. A SPRA IS BORN!
• Iris Howe - Secretary
• Kenneth Howe - Director
• Jeffrey Loomes - Technical Director
• Archibald Macintosh – British Wall Tie & Structural Repair Association
• Stuart Miller– Miller Roofing
• George Sinden– ML UK Floors Ltd
• Michael Steinbach – ICB (Waterproofing)
• Peter Wright - Sarnafil
• Harry Walgate - Sarnafil
FEB 1993
8. OUR FOUNDATIONS
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE,
STANDARDS & GUIDANCE
• Control – Controlled supply through registered contractors who
employed installers who had completed manufacturer product training
• Responsibility – manufacturers responsible for detailed design, wind
load calculation and specification. They also inspected the job before
issuing a guarantee
• Authority – Guides and Standards
9. MEMBER AUDITING
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE,
STANDARDS & GUIDANCE
• Regular Auditing - SPRA audits all members on a yearly and tri-yearly
basis as well as during their initial application process.
• Why Audit?
• to maintain standards
• provide client confidence
• assist in developing and assessing competence
11. QUALITY TRAINING
New entrant
- Apprentice
installer
New entrant,
sales,
managers etc
TrainingCourse
SPRAOnlinetraining&assessmentwww.spratraining.co.uk
Qualification
NVQLevel2SinglePly
Membranes
AchievementCertificate(approvalby
RIBAforCPD)
TrainingCourse
ManufacturerBCP
Achievement
Certificate
Training Course
Single ply Awareness
Training (SAT)
Achievement
Certificate
Experienced
installer
Specifiers,
inspectors,
sales
Short Courses
Specialist Upskilling
Programme (SUP)
Assessment
On site (OSAT)
CPD Seminar
1 hour session
Apprenticeship
Specialist Applied
Skills Programme
(SAP)
Single Ply
Gateway Test
SKILLED
INSTALLERS
KNOWLEDABLE
MANAGEMENT
12. SO – WHAT ARE THE RISKS?
• Complacency
o Root and branch review of SPRA Criteria
• Not recognising all best practice
o Missed opportunity - supporting the best is good for membership, good for the industry
• Not maximising existing resources, services & opportunities
o Promotion of SPRA Quality Standard
o Invest in Training
• Not adapting to change-
o Maximising technology to ensure quality and compliance
13. SO – WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?
• Maximise your investment!
o Promotion of SPRA Quality Standard
o Invest in Training
• SPRA – Adapting to change
o Review SPRA code of practice – is it fit for purpose for commercial and domestic markets (Small Roofs Group)
o How can new technologies and AI support the SPRA Quality Standard?
• Members - review company conduct and adherence to criteria
o Members input into SPRA Task Group
o Review and assess own practice. Spot checks? Inform SPRA Task Group
• Recognise all best practice
o Improved membership model
14. AND FINALLY…
Let’s maintain our high
standards
Let’s lead the way.
Let’s invest in training –
we have all the tools we
need !
The risks if we don’t are
simply not acceptable…
In 1993, A SPRA was born – not to be confused with last year’s hit movie starring Lady Gaga…
But, the following people were responsible for the Single Ply Roofing Association becoming a registered company in Feb 1993
A couple of manufacturers, a couple of manufacturers and a trade body, with a supporting Director and Secretary to do all the legal and admin stuff
So fast forward 26 years and things have changed a bit. We have fantastic representation across the membership, and it’s this breadth and depth of experience that guides the organisation, provides robust authority and increases our influence across the industry.
Opportunity to increase diversity…?
In 1991 a certain young man was appointed technical officer for the British Flat Roofing Council. Some time later, he was introduced to SPRA at a BFRC meeting. He was struck by the very different style and image of single ply, and was particularly impressed by the controlled route to market. The rest is history as they say. Of course that young man was Jim Hooker and this is the only photo that I’ve managed to get from around that time. 1996. Jim- running a 4-day training course on behalf of British Flat Roofing Council
Jim himself commented on his ‘Trump Trousers’, which is really quite funny considering the article in Saturday’s Times about the sartorial elegance of the leader of the free world… Of course, that’s where any similarity ends!!
We wouldn’t be here without our members. And we are always trying to make membership fees work as hard as possible for members.
So I thought it would be really nice to be able to call up to the stage xxxxx and xxxxx from AAC Waterproofing to thank them for becoming our latest members as of last week, and also – I can present them with their Membership Pack, which will save the postage!!
Talking of image, SPRA has always been more than ‘just about the logo’.
Back in the early 1990’s, the commercial single ply market in the UK was making a real impact on the flat roofing sector which had a poor reputation for quality and to use Jim’s words, a “sell it cheap, stack it high” mentality.
SPRA built it’s foundations on Control, Responsibility and Authority. Over the last 26 years, SPRA and its members – that’s you, have worked hard to create a sector that can be trusted, but we must guard against complacency, but perhaps most importantly stay relevant and responsive to an industry that is changing faster than ever before.
Auditing is an essential part of being a SPRA member. Members in all categories are required to comply with SPRA audit requests on a regular basis.
The auditing process is required firstly to ensure that our high standards are maintained. Auditing provides clients and customers of SPRA members with confidence. Increasingly important is the issue of developing and assessing competence. Ensuring members are competent in providing and installing single ply roofing systems to the highest standards in in part achieved through the audit process.
Continued evolution in terms of industry guidance. The present and the future is about engaging with real issues and providing quality industry guidance and best practice. The current 2018 version of our Design Guide is about to be updated in time for 2020 incorporating some key technical additions. SPRA is active in many technical initiatives including organising working and task groups for the benefit of the roofing industry in general, and our members in particular.
Current workstreams involve guidance and standards associated with fire, wind-loading, training and sustainability. SPRA through it members continues to look at the detail in order to evolve better design and practice associated with single ply roofing.
We have a true and comprehensive career path – This chart has been divided into two, the upper section for Installers and the lower section for managers and professionals like specifiers, inspectors, technical salespeople etc.
There is a dotted line, as there can of course be cross-over
Use animations to show previous training, and now
Last year, we did a complete review of our Articles, and this year, we are undertaking a root and branch review of our criteria. Grenfell, Hackitt, Safer Buildings report
Using and promoting all of our resources – SPRA executive can only do so much – by working together all the time, then we continue to promote SPRA, our quality standards and services
Last year, we did a complete review of our Articles, and this year, we are undertaking a root and branch review of our criteria. Grenfell, Hackitt, Safer Buildings report
Using and promoting all of our resources – SPRA executive can only do so much – by working together all the time, then we continue to promote SPRA, our quality standards and services
FOCUS ON WHAT AND HOW!!
Last year, we did a complete review of our Articles, and this year, we are undertaking a root and branch review of our criteria. Grenfell, Hackitt, Safer Buildings report
Using and promoting all of our resources – SPRA executive can only do so much – by working together all the time, then we continue to promote SPRA, our quality standards and services
Call to action 1) Check our articles and criteria and your company company compliance and 2) if every contractor member put through one apprentice – we could make such a difference by next year