RIAS CPD
Fire and Life Safety Seminar: Improving Quality and Reliability in Construction
Tuesday 24th Nov 2026, 13.00-16.30pm
CMS Glasgow, W Regent St, G2 1AP
This session will cover building safety, statute, guidance and codes of conduct, CDM regulations, design risk management and the principles of fire safety design.
Presenters include; Anita Crozier - Senior Associate (CMS LLP), Stephen Girven – Head of Scottish Building Standards Division (Scottish Government), Andrew Leslie – CEO (The Association for Project Safety), Paul McLaughlin – Regional Principle: Scotland & North West England (Multivista), Lila Angelaka - Senior Technical Officer (Historic Environment Scotland) and Sandy Killbourn – Managing Director (Gartcarron Engineering Consultancy). Chair: Zoe Black, RIAS Head of Practice.
Part of our Practice Essentials Series for 2026 [5/5]. Access multi-person booking discounts here: https://media.rias.org.uk/files/2024/03/22/A00B9814-C2E6-23E5-821F-3A6A7DE2AB6E.pdf. Terms and conditions apply.
This event is kindly supported by Multivista and Gartcarron Fire Engineering Consultancy.
For speaker biographies, please see below.
RIAS CPD
Fire and Life Safety Seminar: Improving Quality and Reliability in Construction
Tuesday 24th Nov 2026, 13.00-16.30pm
Speaker Biographies
Anita Crozier - Senior Associate, CMS LLP
Anita specialises in contentious construction, mainly providing legal advice to avoid and resolve construction disputes. She acts for contractors, consultants, developers, and institutions on a wide range of issues arising primarily from construction contracts (both standard form (including NEC, JCT, SBCC,) and bespoke contracts), collateral warranties and professional appointments. Anita is proficient in all forms of dispute resolution including adjudication, arbitration, mediation and litigation in the Sheriff Courts and Court of Session.
Stephen Girven – Head of Scottish Building Standards Division, Scottish Government
Biography to be added shortly…
Andrew Leslie – CEO, The Association for Project Safety
Biography to be added shortly…
Paul McLaughlin – Regional Principle: Scotland & North West England, Multivista
Paul is Multivista’s Regional Principal covering Scotland and the North of England. Over the past 7+ years with Multivista, Paul has worked directly on over 800 projects within construction sector and the built environment.
Multivista, part of Hexagon, is the world’s leading full-service visual construction documentation provider, contracted on over 6 billion square feet of construction valued at over $485 billion dollars. Over 20,000 companies, throughout 70+ international markets, trust Multivista to mitigate risk, create efficiencies, and deliver a deeper level of insight throughout their project’s lifecycle. Along with 3D Laser Scanning data, measurable 3D images, streaming webcams, professional facility management videos, virtual walkthroughs, and UAVs, Multivista also delivers interactive as-builts by linking inspection-grade visual documentation to architectural plans to capture every project with exceptional clarity.
Lila Angelaka - Senior Technical Officer, Historic Environment Scotland
Biography to be added shortly…
Sandy Killbourn – Managing Director, Gartcarron Engineering Consultancy
Sandy Killbourn is an ex local authority fire officer with over 30 years’ experience in the fire service, over 20 years front line fire safety management.
This experience has been built-up through the compiling and inspection of fire certificates under the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and subsequently the auditing of Fire Risk Assessments under the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005.
He has a BSc (Hons) degree in Fire Risk Engineering and has been the lead officer for the local fire service, in conjunction with building standard verifiers, in the approval of numerous proposals requiring fire engineered solutions.