Sofie Hooper, Head of Policy, Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management
Sofie Hooper leads on IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members, and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated. Sofie leads on IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members, and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated. While her work covers a wide range of activities and areas, building safety workplace, and sustainability form the core agenda. Sofie has been leading on IWFM’s Building Safety work programme, feeding into the legislative process towards the Building Safety Act and now its implementation phase. She provided the Secretariat for the Competence Steering Group’s Working Group 8, which developed the Building Safety Manager competence framework following Dame Hackitt’s recommendations. In addition to being the co-author of the Group’s report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management, she is also a regular contributor to Facilitate magazine. Building on WG8’s recommendations, Sofie is a part of the Interim Executive of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross-sector collaboration which is working to improve holistic building safety and associated competence across the occupation phase. She was also a part of the Steering Committee for the DLUCH sponsored PAS 8673, which set the competence requirements for the management of safety in residential buildings.
