This webinar took place on 15 October 2025 In 2018, when Dame Judith Hackitt published her landmark review of building regulations and fire safety, she warned that the construction industry was hampered by inadequate product traceability. At every stage, from design through occupation into facility management, wide gaps existed in…
Fewer than half of buildings with unsafe cladding have still not been remediated, latest data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government shows. At the end of August 2025, there were 5,554 residential buildings 11 metres and over in height identified with unsafe cladding in England. Just 1,927,…
The City of Edinburgh Council has awarded a £61m contract to Harmony Fire for fire safety upgrades across 30 high-rise residential blocks in the city centre. Procured via the Prosper Passive Fire Safety Framework, the job includes the replacement of communal, ancillary and entrance door sets, as well as improvements…
Former Grenfell Inquiry panellist Thouria Istephan has been appointed as the new interim chief construction adviser. In Tuesday’s second progress report on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry: Phase 2 recommendations, the government revealed that the registered health and safety practitioner ─ who has decades of experience as a practising architect ─…
A 70-year-old builder has been given a suspended jail sentence after three workers were injured and a house was destroyed following the collapse of a building. Jack Savva had been working on a loft conversion at a house in Windsor on 6 August 2020 when he told workers to remove…
Construction professionals are being offered new training to address widespread competence gaps in fire safety engineering, in direct response to one of the recommendations in the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report. The Fire Engineering Principles course has been launched by Local Authority Building Control (LABC) and is aimed at tier one…
Mace is suing Mitie for £5m for allegedly installing fire dampers incorrectly at the world’s largest fashion retail store. Mace was hired by Primark to deliver shell, core and fit-out at its Guinness World Record-holding mega-store on Birmingham’s High Street in 2017. The contractor employed Mitie as a subcontractor to…
Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) has been discovered at another hospital site in the past year, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has revealed. The Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust’s Oxford Road site was found to contain the material. Two years on from the issue coming to national…
One of the companies that supplied cladding products to the Grenfell Tower has swung back into profit and significantly increased its cash position. According to its latest accounts, Kingspan Insulation’s revenue was almost flat for the year to 31 December 2024 at £182.2m, down slightly on £186.4m the year before.…
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) says it has rapidly accelerated its process for its initial screening of gateway two applications for higher-risk buildings (HRBs). Philip White, chief inspector of buildings at the BSR, made the announcement at the House of Lords’ Industry and Regulators Committee on Monday (8 August). He…
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