FAÇADE REMEDIATION & BUILDING SAFETY NEWS & INSIGHTS

The latest government figures show that remediation has started or finished on 55% of the 4,732 residential buildings of 11 metres and over being tracked in England. Bob Deane looks at the progress, the proposed new legal duties and deadlines, and what building owners should be doing now.

An external wall system only performs as tested if it’s built exactly as tested. Bob Deane explains how IRS’s new procurement system, working alongside site quality assurance, ties every product on every project back to the approved design. It supports the Golden Thread in England and the same standard of record-keeping in Scotland.

Retrofit has to be right first time. What PAS 2035 asks for, from assessment to evaluation, and how IRS has applied it to occupied homes in Edinburgh.

Three facade systems, 172 occupied apartments and a regulatory regime that changed mid programme. Brendan Collum on what it took to reach Practical Completion at The Greenhouse in Leeds, and what Gateway 2 means for the sector now.

Consolidating the building safety regulators into a single body is a direct outcome of the Grenfell Inquiry. What it means in practice for developers, contractors and housing providers, and why speed of assessment matters as much as scope.

Whole house retrofits upgrade older, fuel inefficient buildings. At the heart of them is the fabric first approach: improve the building envelope before you touch the plant. What it means, why it matters, and how to deliver one properly.