SPRA Golf Day 2025 – Carden Park, Cheshire – 4th September 2025
Get ready for another fantastic day of sport and networking as the SPRA Golf Day returns to the stunning Carden Park in Cheshire!
Taking place on 4th September 2025, this popular event offers members and their guests the chance to compete on the renowned Nicklaus championship course, followed by a lively evening of entertainment, a lavish dinner, and the golf awards presentation. New for this year – there will also be activities available for non-golfers to enjoy the incredible facilities at the venue.
Tickets for the SPRA Golf Day are almost gone – book yours today to secure your spot on the green! Click here to book now
There are still a few opportunities to be a SPRA sponsor at this fabulous SPRA event. Contact enquiries@spra.co.uk for further information.
SPRA Council Elections – Nominations – Open 5th August until 20th August
This is your time to get involved!
SPRA is a highly respected, pro-active and forward-thinking trade association that works hard for its members and for the industry as a whole. A strong SPRA Council plays an important part in this and at election time we are always looking for dynamic individuals who want to give something back to our industry sector, who can promote the SPRA spirit and want to steer the organisation to even greater influence in both the roofing and wider sector to promote high quality, competence and sector standards.
1 Distributor / Affiliate, 3 Associate, 4 Membrane, 4 Contractor, 1 Technical Committee Chair
Number of Council positions available to vote for this year
1 Distributor / Affiliate, 1 Associate, 1 Membrane, 3 Contractor
According to the SPRA Articles of Association, the main Council Elections will take place over the coming weeks. This involves the election of Council members for each membership category. Any organisation can only hold one place on the Council.
NexGen Working Group – promote the next generation of roofing professionals in single ply membrane systems
Following an introduction by SPRA Chair, Melanie Marquard, at the recent SPRA Awards, to bring focus on promoting single ply roofing to school and college students by forming a SPRA Working Group on the subject, it is proposed to form a working group. Could you please register your interest in participating in this group here.
Wind Load Calculation Protocol (WLCP)
Our popular online WLCP training, based on SPRA’s published guidance, continues to attract both members and non-members. Delivered as three 2-hour sessions, the training is aligned with SPRA’s Wind Loading – Protocol for Calculations (S11b/19), referencing key standards and industry guidance. SPRA members receive discounted rates.
Contact SPRA for further information and to register your employees now, please quote “Wind Load Enquiry’.
New NVQ Level 2 in Single Ply Roofing – Coming to Northern England and Scotland
SPRA is pleased to announce that new NVQ Level 2 programmes in Single Ply Roofing are being planned for Northern England and, separately, for Scotland in early 2026. Now is the time to register your interest and give your employees the opportunity to gain a skilled worker qualification in single ply roofing. Email us at enquiries@spar.co.uk to register your interest.
Alongside this, SPRA continues to offer a range of training and competency development opportunities, including the Specialist Applied-Skills Programme (SAP) and the SUP/OSAT routes for installer upskilling and assessment. These high-quality programmes can lead to the Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Waterproofing Systems – Single Ply Membranes. SPRA contractor members benefit from reduced course rates, and CITB-registered companies can access CITB grant funding.
SPRA and other Trade Associations show support for the CCPI
Leading trade associations, including SPRA, across the manufacturing and supply sector have signed up to support CCPI. In signing the Trade Associate pledge, trade associations are committing to support and promote the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI) and its registration and assessment process to their members with the aim to drive a transformational step change in construction product information and management. This is an important move to build back trust in construction product information and marketing, and drive positive culture change across the sector.
Important Note
SPRA members should not and cannot in any way imply to any third party in PR/marketing that they are registered and have been assessed through the CCPI process as a result of SPRA being an Associate CCPI member. They must go through the full CCPI process with CPI Ltd directly
Build UK Update
Building Safety Update
The Government has laid the draft Building Safety Levy (England) Regulations and published guidance to support the levy’s operation from 1 October 2026. The levy will be charged on residential developments resulting in at least 10 new dwellings or 30 new bedspaces in purpose-built student accommodation and new residential floorspace.
Local authorities will act as the collecting authority for the levy, which will be calculated on the floorspace of the development and charged on applications forBuilding Control Approval, and the levy rates per square metre for each local authority have been confirmed. Social housing and support housing residential developments will be exempt from the levy.The BSR has appointed CROSS-UKas the official Voluntary Occurrence Reporting system for fire and structural safety issues relating to buildings and other structures in the UK until at least 2028. Further information, including how to submit a confidential report, can be found on the CROSS-UK website.
Build UK will be responding to theinquiry into the BSR being undertaken by the House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee. The evidence received through the inquiry is expected to help the new leadership team at the BSR understand what is working and what could be improved, and members can inform theBuildUKresponse bysharing their thoughts via email byFriday 15 August.
Source: Build Uk / BSR
CLC HSW Strategy
The CLC has launched its Health, Safety & Wellbeing Strategy, which is focused on tackling the key challenges facing the sector. With the latest figures from the HSE showing construction accounted for the highest number of fatalities in 2024/25, the CLC priorities include reducing fatal accidents on site, as well as improving mental health. Any members interested in getting involved should contact the CLC.
CLC GW2 Guidance
The CLC has published a suite of guidance to provide practical recommendations on approaching and submitting applications for Building Control Approval for new Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs) at Gateway Two, which includes example documents for a project summary, application strategy, and application folder structure.
Source: Build Uk / CLC
Construction Fatalities
According to provisional statistics from the HSE, construction accounted for the highest number of fatalities (35) in 2024/25 but it was ‘back in line’ with the pre-COVID level after a higher than normal rate for the last two years. Build UK is the only industry organisation to publish an annual accident report with data for tier one Contractors.
Source: Build Uk / HSE
Remediating Unsafe Cladding
The Government has published a joint plan with the social housing sector to accelerate the remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding across England and set out plans for new legislation that will require landlords to remediate eligible buildings by a specified date, as part of the second phase of the Remediation Acceleration Plan.
The Government will invest over £1 billion to give social landlords equal access to Government funding schemes as private building owners with immediate effect, as set out in the updated guidance to the Cladding Safety Scheme. Government funding will also be made available to support fire safety cladding remediation works on buildings under 11 metres in exceptional cases where no alternative viable funding route exists.
A new Remediation Bill will be introduced as soon as the Parliamentary timetable allows, which will require landlords of buildings 18 metres or over with unsafe cladding to complete remediation by the end of 2029, and those of buildings 11 – 18 metres by the end of 2031, otherwise they could face criminal prosecution, including unlimited fines and imprisonment.
Source: Build Uk / UK Government
CPA Weekly UK Economic and Construction Update
The latest weekly update is available here, including:
- RIBA Future Trends Survey (June 2025)
- Wickes Trading Update (July 2025)
- Howden Joinery Trading Update (July 2025)
The CPA’s Summer Forecasts were published on Monday, 28 July and are available for members to download from the CPA Website.
Source: CPA
CPA Briefing Paper: The Impacts of U.S. Tariffs
Following strong demand from members and government alike, the CPA’s economics team has published a briefing paper on the ‘Impacts of U.S. Tariffs’. This document will be revised as the situation develops, and made available to CPA members every Friday with our Weekly UK Economic and Construction Update (see above).
To receive this document via email every Friday please contact noble.francis@constructionproducts.org.uk; alternatively, you can click here to read it now.
Source: CPA
BSR Releases Gateway 2 Guidance
The guidance forms one of the CLC key deliverables around this issue and we hope will provide the means and confidence to improve the system. The CPA is also lobbying for greater visibility and monthly data around the current applications including clarity about expected approval dates and reasons for rejections; more resources and upskilling at the Regulator, as well as further improvements to the application ‘customer journey’.
Karl Whiteman, Berkeley Group Plc Divisional Chairman and Industry Sponsor for the CLC’s Building Safety Workstream, said: “On behalf of the CLC I want to thank the many expert contributors to these guidance notes, including members of Local Authority Building Control, Construction Industry Council (CIC) Industry Council, Build UK, the The G15 (a membership group of London’s leading housing associations), Construction Products Association, RIBA, Architectural Technical Leads Group and the Home Builders Federation.”
The CPA will continue to have regular meetings – both privately and alongside the CLC – with the BSR, Office for Product Safety and Standards, and MHCLG around such issues and will keep you updated. The CLC release can be read here.
Source: CPA / BSR
CPA Construction Industry Forecasts – Summer 2025
The fundamentals in the UK construction market remain essentially unchanged from three months ago, but the risks and uncertainties have increased significantly.
On the positive side, activity for house builders continues to recover gradually, and a renewed focus from the government on capital expenditure may boost public sector house building and infrastructure in the long-term.
On the negative side, in the near-term, private housing rm&i activity remains subdued, and the impact of rises in the National Living Wage and employers’ National Insurance Contributions, and lower thresholds, may hit contractor margins. Furthermore, increasing concerns over government debt suggest that the government may either increase taxes again or cut back on its spending plans, potentially doing both.
Construction output is still expected to rise over the forecast period, but the only clear certainty is uncertainty.
A link to the press release can be found here: https://www.constructionproducts.org.uk/news-media-events/news/2025/july/cpa-releases-summer-forecasts-2025/
Source: CPA
CPA Sustainability – Environmental Product Declarations – Briefing Papers
The Construction Products Association have a useful resource on Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) on their website. These are a number of short Briefing Papers which seek to explain various aspects of EPD whether it is a basic introduction right or very detailed technical issues.
You can access the general landing webpage for EPD Briefing Papers here:
Or else, below are direct links to specific topics – which you can download:
I’m a manufacturer – How do I go about getting an EPD?
What is meant by the construction product lifecycle?
Types of EPD & their advantages and disadvantages
EPD: Comparability: A Technical Review
EPD: Uncertainty: A Technical Review
How does an EPD consider embodied carbon?
Is the carbon content of a construction product the same as its embodied carbon: An introduction?
How do EPD consider the carbon content of a construction product: A Technical Briefing
Treatment of biogenic carbon content in EPD
How is waste and recovery modelled in an EPD?
How is waste and recovery reported in an EPD?
Source: CPA