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.

Anthony Walker looks at the fire safety issues facing landlords in the social housing sector.

Fire engineer training must go further than theory if the built environment wants to prevent more deadly disasters, an industry expert tells CIOB People

BSI is due to publish soon a revision of BS 9991 – an essential fire safety standard for residential buildings which will now include care homes.

Structural safety group CROSS has issued a ‘red alert’ after receiving reports of construction work, including cladding remediation, blocking smoke vents on buildings.