Refurbishment

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.

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

At the end of January, Housing Secretary Michael Gove gave developers a six-week deadline to sign up to remediate homes that are 11m or above that have been built in the past 30 years (making mid-March the deadline). Further legislation creates a Responsible Actors Scheme preventing developers from operating and gaining building control approval if they fail to sign up.

Responding to the initial findings of the Regulator of Social Housing on damp and mould, Councillor Darren Rodwell, Housing Spokesperson at the Local Government Association (LGA), said: “Councils continue to fully support efforts to inspect homes and drive up standards in both the social housing and private rented sector.

BDP has reimagined multi-generational living in an ongoing regeneration project transforming a post-war housing estate

Just like Hans Christian Andersen’s story, an unattractive apartment block in Denmark has been transformed, Denise Chevin discovers

In November, British architect Peter Barber won the 2022 Soane Medal for having “devoted his life” to helping resolve the UK’s housing crisis, and was hailed by the jury for his work in social and affordable housing.