BG6

An Industry-Wide Collaboration

BG6 and the BSRIA guidance on allocating responsibility for design activity, dating back to 1994, have been developed with groups representing building services and the wider construction industry. We gratefully acknowledge the input of all recent and previous contributors.

  • The 2026 update was led by Daniel Goodreid, with support from:

    • David Bleicher - BSRIA

    • John Sands - Hoare Lea

    • Martin Trentham - Tilbury Douglas

    • Paul McSoley - PMCSTECH CONSULT Ltdt in hours, not weeks.

  • The steering group worked throughout the update project, advising the authors to ensure content aligned with the latest approaches to building services design. We’d like to thank the individuals and their organisations for their support.

    • Alex Tait - RIBA

    • Anna Hunter - NG Bailey

    • David Woolley - Hoare Lea

    • Duncan Cash - Laing O'Rourke

    • Jonathan Gaunt - Cundall

    • Ken Dorrington - Kier

    • Kevin Morrissey - BESA

    • Luke Yeates-Mayo - McCann and Partners

    • Mark Padgham - Accord Healthcare

    • Melanie Jacobsen Cox- NHS England

    • Nigel Erhardt - WSP

    • Peter Sutcliffe - AECOM

    • Steven Mulvenna - Parliament

  • The draft content of the BG6 Guide and Framework schedules was sent for review to a wide range of individuals representing organisations across the built environment. The following people reviewed and commented on the draft content. We’d like to thank the individuals and their organisations for their support.

    • Cameron Steel - Ridge & Partners

    • Chuan Lim - Foster & Partners

    • David Churcher - Hitherwood

    • David Webb - Vinci

    • Dean Loizou - Whitecode Consulting

    • John Piggott - Skanska

    • John Taylor - BSRIA

    • Kenelm Hoare - Hoare Lea

    • Mark Plummer - Dalkia

    • Mark Snell - Dalkia

    • Martina Sonogova - Hoare Lea

    • Paul Cornwell - Grant Walker

    • Paul Deacon - Atkins

    • Paul Marsland - NG Bailey

    • Simon Ebbatson - Ridge & Partners

    • Simon Hardy - Bovis

    • Steven Bloomfield - Independent

    • Steven Norwood - TClarke

  • The major update for 2026 included workshops with industry representatives, followed by steering group input, author updates, and draft reviews. Every opportunity was taken to incorporate the views of the steering group and reviewers, but the final editorial content of the BG6 update was determined by BSRIA.

    Going forward, BG6 will have more regular updates, constantly evolving to suit the needs of users Suggestions for changes, corrections or updates should be emailed to support@bg6.io.