Refurbishment

The Buildings at Risk Register (BARR) is maintained by Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and provides information on historic buildings at risk.

With the UK Prime Minister setting out an amended path to net zero, Matt Lamy asks the experts how this will affect the construction industry and the drive for retrofitting

Residential surveyors are crucial to helping people understand property. But the profession has plenty of challenges, finds Huw Morris

A Dutch concept for retrofitting homes with off-site components is seizing the imagination of social landlords. Huw Morris reports

BT has announced that there will be no new connections to Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or ISDN lines.

Research from Zutec and Createmaster has shown many UK tenants and leaseholders are living with outstanding maintenance issues in their homes.

NEW for 2023, CABE’S Built Environment LIVE is coming to London’s ExCel on 5 – 6 December 2023.

Citizens Advice has called for urgent investment to tackle draughty housing, which it says will save lives, reduce fuel poverty and help the UK achieve net zero.

Arcadis’ Lenders, Investors and Insurers (LII) team's heritage professionals were collaborators in a highly-commended project that restored and conserved the Grade II listed Old Library in Liverpool into a new childcare nursery and community space.

The National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) has announced the appointment of Clive Dickin as its new Chief Executive.

Landscape Designer Catriona Rowbotham has been tasked with boosting the biodiversity and wellbeing of staff at CABE’s headquarters on an industrial estate surrounded by busy roads.

In April, the Building Safety Regulator opened its online registration portal to enable owners of higher-risk buildings in England and Wales to submit applications to register their buildings before 01 October 2023. Legal firm Trowers & Hamlins estimates the portal needs to receive more than 70 submissions a day in order to register more than 12,500 higher-risk buildings before the deadline.

We speak to recent CABE Webinar Wednesday expert Michael Vernon about the new recommendations found in BS8102:2022 for waterproofing basements.

Climate charity Ashden tells Building Engineer’s editor Rebecca Davies-Nash that retrofit is such an overwhelming and critical issue that it deserves more than piecemeal solutions

Nigel J Wakefield MCABE Chartered Building Engineer, a practising surveyor with more than 40 years of experience, has been puzzling over the problems of upgrading older properties and thermally insulating old floors

Dan Fraser, Nuaire’s Indoor Air Quality Expert, discusses the effective ventilation of historical buildings

Old buildings don’t have to be torn down and lost forever, Matt Lamy discovers, as they can be reused and refurbished for a whole new future

XUL Director Maia Lemlij’s ADHD diagnosis gives her a different view of designing buildings to accommodate neurodiversity