Tom Weld and Kayla Urbanski give a detailed overview of the Building Safety Regulator function under the new building safety regime.

In a landmark case, a tribunal handed down last month the first remediation order under the new powers granted by the Building Safety Act 2022.

The annual Construction Management and BIMplus survey sought your views on the year’s hot topic: artificial intelligence – is it construction’s friend or foe? Justin Stanton reports.

A round-up of reactions from industry bodies and professionals to the Building Safety Act secondary legislation and government consultations response.

Angus Dawson outlines the key takeaways of the government’s consulation response on the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings.

The judgement in URS v BDW is the first Court of Appeal decision considering the Building Safety Act 2022. Olivia Jenkins and Helen Stuart explore its wider implications.

Government and regulatory bodies have sent a stern warning to building owners to get on with remediation work or face “the full range of their enforcement powers”.

CIOB has welcomed the government’s new requirement on all new buildings of 18 metres or higher to have a second staircase.

The Building Safety Regulator has named two bodies as the first independent provider schemes for building control professionals to become registered building inspectors.

Six companies are being prosecuted by Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service over a fire at a care home in 2019, following a four-year investigation.

The Building Safety Regulator said around 750 applications have been started since it launched its building online register in April.

The UK’s built environment is in danger of becoming less safe because the industry is failing to attract new design risk professionals.

Knowing if a building is ‘higher-risk’ or not can be confusing. Here, construction lawyers Simon Lewis and Michelle Essen give a detailed explanation of what higher-risk buildings are and what new building safety legislation will affect them.

The government will use various tools to force major developers to pick up the tab for correcting historic building defects, writes Tim Seal.

The government’s online register of high-rise residential buildings is now live.

VolkerStevin and VolkerFitzpatrick are the first two organisations to achieve a new quality certification designed specifically for the built environment.

The Health and Safety Executive recently announced a campaign to help the owners of an estimated 12,500 existing higher-risk buildings to be ready for their obligations under the Building Safety act, some of which are due to commence from April. But with just a couple of weeks to go, how ready are we? And is the government itself even ready?

DLUHC has announced a £42.5m grant to support the delivery of the Building Safety Act 2022 over the next three years.