Scott Steedman

Director of Standards, British Standards Institution

Scott Steedman is Director of Standards at BSI, where he is responsible for the UK National Standards Body, representing the UK internationally and advising industry and government on the role of standardisation and knowledge transfer in innovation and economic growth. Formerly an academic at Cambridge University, Scott has spent the last twenty years working on major infrastructure and building projects in the UK and around the world. He has specialized in risk and natural disasters, earthquake engineering, forensic engineering, organisational change and innovation strategy and has worked for major consulting and contracting companies in the construction sector. Scott is also a Vice President of the Register of Engineers for Disaster Relief and a Board member of the Port of London Authority. He is a former Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

News mentions

BSI Publishes Competence Standards For Building Safety Management

The British Standards Institution has published three new standards which set out competence requirements for building safety management, sponsored by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Co...

BSI Pledges International Commitment To Accelerate Transition To Net Zero

A game-changing moment for international standards will enable a real acceleration in government and industry transition to net zero. Led by BSI, and approved by the ISO members, the London Decl...

Action Plan To Unlock Standards For 4th Industrial Revolution Published

The National Quality Infrastructure (NQI) partners, BSI, National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and UKAS with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy have published the Standards for...

BAFE And BSI Announce New National Standards Program To Raise Professional Competence In The Built Environment Sector

BAFE, the British Approvals for Fire Equipment has stated that professional competence recommendations set out in Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘Building a Safer Future’ report is set to be...

New National Standards Program Set To Raise Professional Competence In The Built Environment Sector

Professional competence recommendations set out in Dame Judith Hackitt’s Building a Safer Future report are set to be fulfilled by BSI with a new standards program. BSI, in its role as the UK Na...