Intelligence

Building owners have a responsibility to manage the risk from asbestos in their premises. Developing the asbestos plan for Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, provides an overview of typical considerations

Goods supply chain issues in 2020 caused delays and annoyance, but these aren’t the only supply chain risk, says CHAS.

Architect Julia Park, Head of Housing Research at Levitt Bernstein and Associate Director for Homes at the Centre for Ageing Better, makes the case for accessible housing to be more than an afterthought

Highlights unethical behaviour and a disregard for safety from a contractor over welding specifications  

Design and engineering students’ first experience of a design brief encourages team working, creativity and problem solving

Tim Oakley, Head Consultant at the London Housing Consortium, paints a post-Covid picture of public sector procurement

Ryan Stanley, Moisture Control Sales & Product Manager, Northern Europe, at Aggreko, explains why humidity is unwanted on-site and how to avoid common errors in its removal

Lee James, General Manager, Product Marketing, Nittan Europe, explains what to look for in a fire detection system to provide better through-life value

Darron Brough, who has worked in the cladding and façade industry for three decades, has created an alternative to the waking watch fire detection system

Dan Grimshaw explains why he walks away if the process involves competitive tender and is based on cost alone

Has party wall surveying been lost to unethical practice, with little distinction between qualified and unqualified professionals?

Dom de Ville, Senior Consultant, Sancroft, discusses how to avoid the mounting plastic packaging problem

Enrico Borgarello, Director of Global Product Innovation at HeidelbergCement, discusses supplying the material for Germany’s first 3D-printed residential building

EngineeringUK looks back on the difficult year that was 2020 and sees hope for the future

Richard Flynn CEnv CEng FCABE, of Flynn & Shaw, Ireland, discusses what ethical professionalism means to him and whether he is seeing changing behaviour patterns in the industry

Tek Hussein, Head of Technical at WeMaintain, runs through some common issues with lifts

Richard Harral, CABE’s Technical Director, says that building more accessible housing is vital, but that is only part of the story

Joe Cilia, Technical Director at the Finishes & Interiors Sector (FIS), considers how designers and specifiers can use the Acoustic Verification Scheme to specify products with confidence.

This situation highlights the need for temporary works to enable permanent works to be installed correctly.

US-based forensic engineer James P Waltz FCABE discusses what forensics mean in the built environment.