Mark Snelling MCIOB, CertIOSH, FAPS, started in construction, setting up his own construction health and safety consultancy in 1995. He is President of the Association for Project Safety, a founder director of the Building Safety Alliance and the health, safety and fire consultant to the Property Institute. Since 2021 he has worked in building safety providing guidance, consultancy and training to professional bodies and others. His current focus is on competence and competence management which has included his membership of British Standards Institute [BSI] steering committees developing competence frameworks and standards including BS8670, PAS 8671, PAS 8763, and BS 8674. He is a member of the new industry organisational capability standard steering group and BSI’s CPB/1 Committee which is responsible to the BSI Standards Policy and Strategy Committee (SPSC) for standardization needs for competence in the built environment.

Sofie Hooper joined APS to advance its role as a leading professional body providing a centre of competence and excellence for the broader built environment community on all things Building Safety and Health and Safety risk management.

Sofie focuses on policy, strategy development, and collaborations with other professional bodies, political stakeholders, members and business partners.

Past membership experiences include Head of Policy and Research at IWFM, where she led the wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider sector. She also led on its research agenda and was responsible for the delivery of its technical publications. She translates best practice into policy and strategic objectives and engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board.

Post-Grenfell, she spearheaded the Institute’s Building Safety policy strategy, she co-authored the key industry post Grenfell report Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management and provided regular liaison with the Building Safety Regulator, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and other key policy units.

Sofie is a founder Director of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross-sector collaboration working to improve holistic building safety competence across the occupation phase. APS is also a founding member.