A building contractor has received a £600,000 fine, while its director must complete 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £4,200 after failing to manage the risk of fire at a site.

The Building Safety Act brings new duties on clients and their teams to maintain a golden thread of information. Margaret Sackey explains how UCL will comply.

Long dry periods are leading to increasing levels of subsidence and fires, according to home insurer LV General Insurance.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a revised version of its Fire safety in construction (HSG168) document.

Underground electricity cables and gas pipelines in London have been mapped to improve safety and efficiency on construction sites.

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

Keltbray is taking delivery of 500 wearable safety devices from Reactec to improve health and safety.

Two trade associations have called for more rigorous checks on the fire safety of pre-insulated pipework installed in buildings.

A round-up of BIM and digital construction stories that you might have missed in the past seven days.

Contractor Mulalley has lost a court battle with a housing association over who was liable for defective cladding on four high-rise residential towers in Portsmouth.

Construction businesses will only embrace culture change when they see tangible reasons to adopt it, argues Gavin Skelly.

Keepmoat Homes has pointed to arson as a possible cause for a fierce blaze involving timber frame homes on one of its construction sites.

There were 309 fires in buildings undergoing construction work last year, with 16% of them caused by hot works.

A robot that can self-locate, self-position and self-tie up to 1,100 rebar intersections an hour is being used on a major civils project in Florida.

Peter Baker, the recently installed chief inspector of buildings at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), has welcomed the coming into effect of new planning requirements on fire safety.