Specialist Engineering Contractors Group
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The Specialist Engineering Contractors Group (SEC Group) is a United Kingdom
construction
industry organisation, currently representing six specialist engineering
membership associations. Collectively, these associations comprise over 60,000 companies with a total workforce of over 300,000 individuals.
The SEC Group's members are:
The SEC Group reflects the combined views of these organisations in the Strategic Forum for Construction
, where it is one of two bodies representing specialist contractors (the other is the National Specialist Contractors Council
).
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
construction
Construction
In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, construction is a process that consists of the building or assembling of infrastructure. Far from being a single activity, large scale construction is a feat of human multitasking...
industry organisation, currently representing six specialist engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
membership associations. Collectively, these associations comprise over 60,000 companies with a total workforce of over 300,000 individuals.
The SEC Group's members are:
- Association of Plumbing and Heating ContractorsAssociation of Plumbing and Heating ContractorsThe Association of Plumbing and Heating Contractors is a trade association for the plumbing and heating industry in England and Wales, representing around 1500 businesses employing some 60,000 specialist engineers ranging from those employed by large companies to sole traders working in domestic...
- British Constructional Steelwork AssociationBritish Constructional Steelwork AssociationThe British Constructional Steelwork Association is a trade association for the constructional steelwork industry in the UK.-History:Britain built the world's first iron bridge in around 1780...
- Electrical Contractors' AssociationElectrical Contractors' AssociationThe Electrical Contractors' Association is the main trade association for contractors involved in electrical engineering projects in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.-History:...
- Heating and Ventilating Contractors' AssociationHeating and Ventilating Contractors' AssociationThe Heating and Ventilating Contractors' Association , founded in 1904, is the main UK trade association for companies that design, install, commission and maintain heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and related engineering projects.-Activities:The HVCA provides quality...
- Lift and Escalator Industry AssociationLift and Escalator Industry AssociationThe Lift and Escalator Industry Association is a United Kingdom-based trade association and advisory body for the lift and escalator industry...
- SELECT - the Electrical Contractors' Association for Scotland
The SEC Group reflects the combined views of these organisations in the Strategic Forum for Construction
Strategic Forum for Construction
The Strategic Forum for Construction is a United Kingdom construction industry organisation established in 2001 as the principle point of liaison between UK government and the major construction membership organisations...
, where it is one of two bodies representing specialist contractors (the other is the National Specialist Contractors Council
National Specialist Contractors Council
The National Specialist Contractors' Council is a United Kingdom construction organisation comprising 32 specialist trade associations representing companies involved in planning, design, construction, refurbishment and maintenance of the built environment.-Members:*Association of Concrete...
).