Health, safety and wellbeing

Trade body the Property Care Association (PCA) has published a consumer guide to help householders with concerns over spray foam insulation installed in their properties.

Diversitas, the Black Professionals Engagement Group, has launched a new website to champion Black professionals in the construction industry.

The Building a Safer Future author welcomes the launch of the Engineering Council’s competency register for professionally qualified structural and civil engineers this month, which has been developed in response to her report recommendations.

A local authority has partnered with Duraproducts to trial its recycled plastic kerbing for both durability and safety purposes.

Action Sustainability’s Operational Toolkit: Combatting Slavery in the Built Environment aims to keep modern slavery off sites and out of the construction industry supply chain

A groundbreaking project completed by Leeds Beckett University and Aggregate Industries UK is informing best practice around safety in the UK construction materials industry.

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1322: Structural designs carried out by non engineer

Brenda Leach-Water, CABE member and author of The Book of Mould, offers a deep dive into the causes and treatments of damp

Building managers are well versed in dealing with issues of bricks and mortar, fixtures and fittings, but what about residents? How do you do a resident engagement strategy, asks Matt Lamy.

Property developer Nofax Enterprises has been ordered to pay £63,000 plus £25,622 in prosecution costs after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) uncovered numerous safety failings at a construction site in London.

What happens when you find yourself working beyond your competency? It can happen, says Denise Chevin, and the consequences can be dire.

Work has started to transform a vacant brownfield site in Greater Manchester into 15 homes for young care leavers.

Building Control Surveyor Helen Booker-Hunt has forged a successful career while being profoundly deaf. Matt Lamy asks what difference it has made professionally.

Olivia Summers, Architectural Assistant at Gradon Architecture, discusses the importance of considering neurodivergence in built environment design.

We speak to recent CABE Webinar presenter Pete Tyson – Commercial Director of the Water Hygiene Centre Ltd – about how the construction sector can help mitigate the risk from waterborne pathogens.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has launched a public consultation on its new ‘Responsible use of AI 1st Edition’ Professional Standard, which aims to provide guidance on the ethical and practical considerations of AI in the natural and built environment sectors. The consultation closes on 29 April.

Construction and engineering struggle to attract women to the profession – but did you know they also have trouble retaining them once they reach a certain level?

The Supply Chain Sustainability School has released its ninth annual Fairness, Inclusion and Respect (FIR) Culture Impact Report, and its findings are promising.

Mainmark UK’s Freya Chapman is one of only a few female specialists in British ground engineering – she’s urging the construction sector to consider why this is

Collaborative reporting for safer structures. Report 1286: Reinforcement corrosion and its effect on structural performance