Inside Housing

LFB did not act on stay put and building failure warnings when it drafted national guidance, inquiry hears

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) ignored calls to include stronger warnings about building failures and when to revise the ‘stay put’ advice in draft national guidance it prepared for central government ...
Architects' Journal

Schools need extra £2.2bn a year to avoid ‘serious risks of building failure’

An extra £2.2 billion of funding per year is needed to avoid ‘the most serious risks of building failure’ in schools across England, according to the National Audit Office (NAO) The Department for ...
Bdcnetwork.com

Design and construction amnesia: We have lost our minds and it is causing catastrophic mold and moisture building failures

Not all buildings are created equal, some fail at alarming rates. Some failures occur at a high rate of frequency but result in minor, practically, negligible consequences. Other building failures on ...
Daily Mail

Labour's housebuilding failures laid bare: New build construction plummets under Sir Keir Starmer - as London developments fall more than half in a year

Sir Keir Starmer has 'close to zero' chance of hitting his housebuilding targets, it was claimed today, as analysis of official figures revealed construction has plummeted nationwide under Labour's ...
BBC

Why Buildings Collapse

In 2021, Champlain Towers South – an apartment building near Miami – collapsed, killing 98 people. This film forensically examines what happened and asks: what went wrong? In 2021, Champlain Towers ...