Building safety stream

The stream will cover topics such as new safety legislation, improving skills competence in the workforce, and factoring new costs and risk.

Long process: How compliance with the new products code will be verified

2023-08-21T06:00:00+01:00By Carl Brown

The CPI has been set up to verify manufacturers’ compliance with the Code for Construction Products Information. Chief executive Amanda Long explains how she intends to scale up its activity

Six years on from Grenfell and real change is finally happening

2023-07-19T06:00:00+01:00By Andrew Mellor

The pace of reforms since Grenfell has been frustratingly slow, but real change is being delivered, writes Andrew Mellor

Building bridges: how Paul Morrell would fix our broken products testing system

2023-07-18T06:00:00+01:00By Carl Brown

Industry veteran Paul Morrell has written a seminal review on overhauling products testing. The man himself explains his thinking in the first of a two-part interview

Building safety - it’s time for us all to take responsibility

2023-07-10T13:00:00+01:00By Suzannah Nichol

With more regulations coming down the line, we need true collaboration from the industry, writes Suzannah Nichol

We are entering a new era for building safety - but are we ready for the new regulator?

2023-03-31T05:00:00+01:00By Carl Brown

The Building Safety Regulator’s registration process for high-rise buildings starts in a few days’ time. Carl Brown assesses how prepared the new regulator and the industry are for the start of a fresh regime

Passive fire protection: do we need a new construction discipline?

2023-03-16T07:00:00+00:00By Carl Brown

Tier one contractors have come together to warn they may not be able to give assurances that passive fire protection in designs comply with new regulations. Do we need a new approach?

How do we ensure building safety compliance while still delivering the homes we need?

2023-03-14T06:00:00+00:00By Carl Brown

Multiple regulators, overlapping rules, competence requirements, gateways, information sharing and holistic approaches. Here’s what the Building the Future Commission’s building safety stream has been looking at

Meet the commissioners: Rebecca Rees

2023-02-23T06:00:00+00:00

Rebecca Rees discusses the need for procurement reform, workforce diversificiation and her love of the Eden Project biomes

Meet the commissioners: Simon Tolson

2023-02-09T06:00:00+00:00

Simon Tolson discusses the importance of good design, maintaining skills and his passion for energy and tech innovation

What the second staircase rule would mean for high-rise blocks

2023-02-06T06:00:00+00:00By Carl Brown

Michael Gove announced plans just before Christmas for mandatory second staircases in towers over 30m. But what impact is this likely to have?

Meet the commissioners: Andrew Mellor

2023-01-31T06:00:00+00:00

Andrew Mellor talks about quality of build, technological change and the need to improve competency in the industry

Changing the building safety culture

2023-01-23T07:00:00+00:00By David Thomas

Rebuilding loss of trust following Grenfell is crucial for the construction sector and signing up to the non-profit Building A Safer Future’s charter is a good step towards this, writes David Thomas

Building the Future Commission: introducing the building safety stream

2023-01-19T07:00:00+00:00By Carl Brown

The building safety stream will look at unique approaches to the Building Safety Act as well as longer-term solutions to improve the way schemes are designed and built