Construction clients are being encouraged to push building safety to the top of their agenda to ensure there is no repeat of the 2017 Grenfell tragedy.

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.

The Building Research Establishment (BRE) missed an opportunity help clarify government guidance that combustible ACM cladding should not be used on high-rise buildings in 2014.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to the Construction Products Association, calling on cladding and insulation manufacturers to make a contribution to the cost of cladding remediation.

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.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has blocked Rydon Homes, the sister company of the firm involved in the refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, from the government’s Help to Buy loan scheme with immediate effect.

Dame Judith Hackitt has been presented with an Honorary Fellowship of The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) at a graduation ceremony in London.

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.

More robust propping to support Grenfell Tower will have to be installed this summer as the building’s condition worsens.

A new contractor been appointed to take over from Wates to continue essential safety and maintenance work at Grenfell Tower.

Dame Judith Hackitt, who led the government’s independent review if Building Regulations and fire safety after the Grenfell Tower disaster has praised the Trafford Housing Trust for its approach to building and fire safety.

Wates has started to remove equipment from the Chalcots Estate in London, where it had been working on the remediation of ACM cladding, after Camden Council decided to re-tender the…