Recorded live at Sweco’s Building Standards annual training event at The Belfry, this episode of Behind the Regs brings together hosts Jack Calveley and Nader Hassan with two brilliant guests: Paul McSoley and Douglas Masterson.

This conversation looks beyond the surface of compliance and asks what building safety really depends on in practice.

A certificate, label or product test is only part of the picture. The real outcome depends on the full chain: design intent, specification, product compatibility, test evidence, installation, workmanship, inspection, maintenance and ongoing responsibility.

In this live episode, Paul and Douglas explore fire doors, escape doors, architectural ironmongery, building services systems, dampers, penetrations, ventilation, Regulation 7, competence and the importance of evidence that actually supports the installed arrangement.

The discussion highlights a central message:

Building safety is not created by isolated products or paperwork alone. It is created by the way products, people, systems and evidence come together in the real world.

A huge thank you to Sweco and Neil Badley for inviting Behind the Regs to record its first live episode, and to Paul McSoley and Douglas Masterson for bringing such depth, clarity and practical insight to the conversation.