Britain Wants to Build 1.5 Million Homes. So Why Are We Making Them Harder to Build?
On one residential development I worked on, the winning construction tender was approximately £4.8 million. The project subsequently missed the commencement deadline associated with the transitional arrangements for changes to the Building Regulations, meaning that the design had to be revisited to comply with the newer requirements of Parts F, L, O and S. By […]
Building Safety After Grenfell: Have We Confused More Regulation With Safer Buildings?
There are few events in modern British history that have had as profound an impact on the construction industry as the Grenfell Tower fire. Seventy-two people lost their lives in a disaster that should never have happened. The subsequent Grenfell Tower Inquiry concluded that those deaths were avoidable and identified failures across government, the client, […]