The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has called on the government to make it a requirement for all new high-rise residential buildings over 18m or seven storeys in height to have more than one fire escape staircase.

Once-in-a-generation reforms to the construction industry in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) will mean that students in the sector in 2030 will look back on buildings built in 2016-17 and ask themselves “did we really stoop to that level”?

There needs to be a radical change in the area of construction product competence, according to a white paper which sets out proposals for a single agreed standard.

BSI has developed a new suite of building safety standards. Clare Price explains how to use them.

Olivia Jenkins explains how the court reached its judgement in the Martlet v Mulalley fire safety dispute – and how that might influence future cases.

Simon Lewis examines how the government’s draft contract as part of the ‘building safety pledge’ works and how it expects to get developers to sign up.

A new report has highlighted ‘red flags’ that need to be addressed before the construction industry can move towards having a fully competent installer workforce.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to an industry body representing cladding and insulation manufacturers, demanding that they contribute to the cost of remediating unsafe buildings.

Six major housebuilders have signed up to a government pledge to pay for cladding remediation.

Construction Management is running a survey to assess how ready construction professionals are for the new building safety regime.

The chair of an influential group of MPs has called on the government to make contractors and subcontractors who played a role in the building safety crisis pay for the remediation of unsafe buildings.

Lord Greenhalgh, minister of state (for building safety and fire) and Dame Judith Hackitt are both set to speak at the CIOB’s first Safety Buildings UK conference.

The government faces “practical difficulties” in pursuing overseas-based construction product manufacturers and developers when it comes to getting them to contribute to the cost of remediating defective buildings, housing secretary Michael Gove has admitted.

Construction workmanship, particularly around the installation of cavity barriers, needs to improve says Basil Jackson, as he summarises the changing advice around <18m buildings since the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Dame Judith Hackitt has expressed “serious concern” over a lack of take-up by the construction industry of tools and frameworks that have been developed to make high-rise residential buildings safer following the Grenfell Tower disaster.

In the latest article in our series examining the implications of the Building Safety Bill, John Forde and Stuart Brown discuss the role of the Building Safety Regulator and how it will operate the new building safety regime.

A worker who fell nearly 5m from a scaffold tower whose safety rail had not been fixed correctly, suffered 10 broken ribs, a fractured shoulder and a collapsed lung.

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has published a set of safety case principles for high-rise residential buildings (HRRBs) to give early insight into changes to the building safety regulatory regime.