Steve Lakin (Head of Fire Balfour Beatty) – Providing Facilities for
Firefighters during High Rise Construction.

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STEVE LAKIN (BALFOUR BEATTY)
Steve commenced his career as an operational fire fighter in Kent before becoming a Senior Officer and the eventual Deputy Chief Fire Officer in Auckland New Zealand.
During his career he attended a number of nationally significant incidents including playing a key Incident Commander role at the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Having served the community for 30 years, Steve became the Head of Fire
Safety at Heathrow and is now the Head of Fire for one of the UK’s largest
construction company. Steve has a 38 year career in protecting the public,
fire safety and fire safety management. “At Balfour Beatty we challenged the
business and have changed the culture so that we have competent people
who hold accountability and responsibility for fire safety, that we appropriately design and build fire safe buildings, that we use tested materials and we build things in the right way.