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This occupation is found in the construction and engineering sectors, with building services engineering technicians employed in a variety of organisation types and sizes. Building services engineering technicians will typically work for:

• Clients, for whom construction or refurbishment projects are carried out, with technicians supporting the preparation and production of building services engineering information, project plans and resourcing, typically for consultants and contractors. This type of organisation could include Developers, Hospital Estates departments, Local Authorities, Facilities Management, etc.
• Consultancies, typically appointed by the client, to design, prepare or modify building services engineering designs, with technicians supporting the planning, design, coordination, management, and monitoring of building services engineering projects, in the design phase, typically providing information for the client and contractor.
• Contractors, typically appointed by the client, to coordinate the construction, installation, refurbishment, or manufacture phase of a building services engineering project, with technicians supporting the planning, project management, monitoring, commissioning and coordination of the build or refurbishment phase of building services engineering projects.
• Suppliers and Manufacturers, appointed to supply materials and equipment, or to design, build and manufacture building service systems, for building services projects.

Technicians work on and in all types of buildings across the built environment sector, including residential (private homes, larger residential buildings, including high rise buildings), schools (education), healthcare facilities & hospitals, retail outlets, shopping centres, offices, restaurants, cinemas, gyms, museums, and infrastructure projects such as transport hubs and stations, ports and airports, water and waste facilities, power plants.

The broad purpose of the occupation is to bring the built environment to life by connecting up the buildings we live and work in, ensuring they meet the needs of the people, plant, and services they need to accommodate, whilst providing comfort, building safety and security and efficiency through ever increasing environmental safeguarding.