About the sector
The building services sector represents the electrotechnical, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing industries.
- 51,000 businesses in the sector:
20,000 electrotechnical
11,000 heating, ventilating, air conditioning & refrigeration
20,000 plumbing - 558,000 employees throughout the sector:
356,000 electrotechnical
95,000 heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration
107,000 plumbing
The sector carries out £20 billion of work each year - 3% of GNP (Gross National Product) and at any one time is training 18,000 apprentices.
