Adding champagne bars to stadium concourses or skateparks in shopping centres may sound like fun projects, but such building changes create fire engineering challenges. Mott MacDonald’s Beth Corrigan explains

Job sites, particularly in high-accident areas like construction sites, require proper safety precautions. Accidents can and will happen, so it is vital to take measures to reduce the number of incidents and to respond accordingly when they do happen.

The Masonry Association of Great Britain (MAGB) is calling for the fire safety performance of cavity barriers to be considered over the full life of a building, not just at the point of laboratory tests.

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has opened its consultation on a draft fire safety standard, as well as a draft publicly available specification (PAS) for fire safety in construction.

Care homes will remain outside the higher-risk building definition under the Building Safety Act, following a government review

The government has confirmed it will introduce primary legislation to regulate the fire engineering profession, aimed at strengthening public safety and raising professional accountability.

The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served a fire enforcement notice after identifying “significant fire safety shortfalls” at the Hinkley Point C nuclear construction site.

Inim Electronics will launch software next week that automates fire safety design.

Getting the fire safety profession to embrace digital information management is still a challenge, says BSI’s Aman Sharma.

Aman Sharma MBE is the new chair of BSI’s strategic fire safety committee for the built environment. He tells CM what new standards construction should look out for.

A CIOB fellow is calling on built environment professionals to go beyond competence and “think about their moral duty from the outset of any project” when it comes to fire safety.

An Essex developer has been fined £40,000 and its director given a 12-month community order after failing to fix serious fire safety breaches at a seafront apartment block in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

The Office for Product Safety and Standards has recalled from the UK market a timber product used for construction sheeting after it was found not to consistently achieve the declared reaction to fire performance.

An Altrincham-based construction company has been fined £165,000 after it repeatedly failed to implement fire precautions during the renovation of a residential project in Preston.

Passive fire protection relies on the effective compartmentation of a building. It is made up of fire doors, walls, and floors, and works alongside active systems such as sprinklers and fire alarms.

A fire service has dropped its prosecution case for alleged breaches of fire safety regulations against four companies involved in the design, risk assessment, management and maintenance of a care home in Crewe.

Following a deadly fire in a nightclub in North Macedonia, Neil Gibbins examines the need for increased awareness of the risks in similar UK venues, especially the use of pyrotechnics and management of fire safety measures.

McGee, Erith and Turner & Townsend are among the 66 specialist firms awarded a slot in a new building safety and fire compliance framework agreement for the NHS estate and wider public sector.