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.

Nottingham Hub event puts changes in context

Construction and safety bodies have welcomed the long-awaited publication of the Building Safety Bill today (5 July), paving the way for sweeping reforms in the way in which the sector is regulated

On the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower disaster, Howard Passey, director of operations and principal consultant at the Fire Protection Association asks what the biggest fire safety risks in buildings are.

Construction professionals will soon face a tougher regulatory backdrop, writes Christine Gausden

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A total of 12 companies including several major contractors and housebuilders have become the first Building a Safer Future (BSF) Charter ‘champions’.

The government has released details of new requirements in the planning system to bolster fire safety in high-rise residential buildings.