Building safety

A building control company which last month saw its high-risk building inspection work taken over by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has been sanctioned by a professional disciplinary panel, it has emerged. In results published last Wednesday (26 June), a disciplinary panel for the CIC Approved Inspectors Register (CICAIR) said…

A quarter of all the cladding remediation projects in England have been completed, seven years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Of the 4,374 buildings identified in England with dangerous cladding by the end of May 2024, 1,088 have been remediated to completion, according to government statistics published yesterday. Buildings in…

Nathan Hooper is a senior associate at consultancy Hollis Updated guidance to the Building Regulations will see all residential buildings that are taller than 18 metres needing to be built with at least one additional staircase and additional evacuation shafts from 2026. How quickly should the industry be reacting to…

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has said that work on more than 50 ‘higher risk’ projects will need to be paused until it can sign off their applications, Construction News can reveal. The move follows the compulsory liquidation of private registered building control approver AIS Surveyors, which was wound up…

The chair of the Building Safety Regulator’s Industry Competence Committee has said the construction industry must ensure a tragedy like the Grenfell Tower blaze never happens again. On the seventh anniversary of the West London fire in which 72 people died, Jon Vanstone called for the industry to honour the…

The final report of the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire will be released in just over three months’ time, more than seven years after the tragedy that killed 72 people. The inquiry team announced today (23 May) that publication of its phase two report, which has been delayed three…

Firms under police investigation over the construction of Grenfell Tower are unlikely to find out if they face charges before the end of 2026, according to official prosecutors. The Metropolitan Police expects to receive the Grenfell Inquiry’s phase two report later this year. It will then need “at least between…

Scottish ministers have been given the power to directly commission remediation work on dangerous cladding without owners’ permission. On Tuesday (14 May) the Scottish Parliament unanimously approved the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Bill. The new law will give building owners seven days’ notice of ministers’ intention to carry out work.…

As the industry awaits the Grenfell Inquiry phase-two report, Dr Bernard Rimmer asks whether the builder-developer business model needs a complete overhaul It looks as though the final report of the Grenfell Inquiry could be presented to the government this summer, so perhaps now is the time to reflect on…

Charis Beverton is a partner at law firm Winckworth Sherwood April marked two years since the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) received royal assent, pledging far-reaching overhauls to building standards in response to the Grenfell Tower fire disaster. “Liability for remediation costs – and where they sit within the supply…