The government has appointed a university professor and civil and construction engineer as its new chief construction and scientific adviser.

The Met said 20 companies and organisations and 54 individuals have been identified as suspects for criminal offences.

Government proposals to strengthen the construction products used in buildings across the UK have been published in an attempt to tackle unregulated practices.

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.

Clarion Housing’s post-Grenfell strategy has been commended by Dame Judith Hackitt. Will Mann talks to the group’s building safety team about cladding remediation, quality management and the power of data.

Using energy digital twins could be key to reducing costs and carbon for both new and existing buildings, says Mott MacDonald’s Santiago Velez.

Buildots has launched Integrated Tracking that unifies automated AI with manually in-the-field recorded data.  The tracker enables both types of data to be brought together in one place. It uses…