Technologist of the Year wins Emerging Standards Maker Award

Chartered Architectural Technologist of the Year wins BSI Award

The BSI Standards Awards are the most prestigious awards BSI gives to standards-makers and were created to recognise outstanding contributions by emerging standards-makers, industry leaders, consumer champions, international standards-makers and committee chairs and programme managers. 

Emerging Standards-Maker
This award recognises an individual who is new (5 years or less) to standards-making and whose contribution has made a genuine difference to their committee and/or the standards-making process. 

Daniel Rossiter MCIAT
As a Chartered professional, Daniel Rossiter persistently embodies traits like integrity, inclusivity, respect and accountability through his diligent adherence to his professional institute’s Code of Conduct. In 2017, he joined the national committee B/555 (Construction design, modelling and data exchange) as a representative for BRE, a world leading, multi-disciplinary building science centre. As a young professional, Dan was eager to prove himself and volunteered to become the terminology expert on relevant CEN and ISO working groups. With his aptitude for communication and influencing people, he made significant contributions and quickly became a respected member of these groups. After a few short months, the committees nominated Dan as convenor. As the new convenor of both ISO/TC59/SC13/TF01 (Organisation and digitisation of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling - Terminology) and CEN/TC442/WG01 (Building Information Modelling – Terminology), Dan has continued to make notable contributions. These include aligning the procedures of both CEN and ISO committees, so that any terminology-related decisions made at one committee are discussed and agreed at the other for consistency; disseminating terms, through an online database accessible to standard authors, which includes the preferred terms agreed by both committees; and supporting standards
authors, by producing a joint CEN and ISO guidance document on how to identify, structure and record terminology correctly within ISO/TC59/SC13 and CEN/TC442/. Dan advocates the adoption of British, European and International Standards through his mantra of 'simplicity through standardisation' that he shares through his successful blog, social media and at industry events. Dan’s positive message on standards adoption and his approachability has brought in new committee members and shows that Dan is a fine ambassador for committee membership. He is also known for his tenacity, accountability, knowledge of construction standards and good sense of humour and has in a short time raised the profile and importance of BIM terminology across CEN and ISO. At the young age of 31, Dan has shown maturity and influencing skills beyond his years and his commitment to standards making has achieved the respect of fellow committee members.