Building & Fire Safety

The government laid new legislation before the Houses of Parliament on 23 January with the intention of establishing a more stringent building safety regime for higher-risk buildings.

Bridge design engineers, architects and their clients should avoid introducing “invitations to climb” to their structure designs following a report of a thrill-seeker climbing on a bridge, risking serious injury to themselves and others.

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 967, Covid-19 and the impact on construction quality

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1032, Fire in roofs containing PV panels – and lessons from past incidents

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in Ireland has issued a circular relating to planning applications – site layouts, plans, maps and drawings (PL 06/2022).

Two consultations launched by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in relation to technical proposals outlining in the Building Safety Act (England) will close on 12 October.

Contractual requirements are increasingly featuring sustainable outcomes, according to the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Construction Contracts and Law Report 2022.

Industry groups have called on new Prime Minister Liz Truss to make energy efficiency and retrofitting homes a central tenet of its strategy to tackle the energy crisis.

A report that highlights the potential for grandstand decking boards to rot says that unchecked temporary grandstands could become unsafe for use.

John Miles, Technical and Business Development Manager at Assent Building Control, says a back-to-basics approach is imperative for the industry

The King’s Cross estate in London has achieved In-Use certification to the SABRE security risk management standard – the first facility to do so since the scheme became a partnership-led initiative between the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and The Security Institute.

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1085: Inadequate design submissions for alterations to an existing building

David McNeice, partner and UK Head of Construction and Infrastructure at DWF, has said developers should contribute more to the Building Safety Levy.

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1033: Overloading of existing steelwork frame

CABE’s Annual Conference this year introduces our new academic research forum. The built environment is continually facing challenges, from the climate change emergency to reducing the embodied and operational carbon emissions of buildings.

Robust reforms to fire safety have been announced by Priti Patel to strengthen fire and rescue services, putting the majority of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations into law.

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1028: Fire protection of stair structure

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1095: Cladding and decking certification

After months of debate and amendments, the Building Safety Bill became law today (29 April), with the intention to ‘create lasting generational change’ to the way high-risk and residential buildings are constructed and maintained, although many of the new provisions in the 262-page Act are not expected to come into force until 2023.