The Grenfell Tower tragedy has led to a nationwide debate around fire safety, especially concerning building materials, regulations and the value of fire sprinkler systems. On the specific call for the fitting of sprinklers, only residential buildings erected after 2007… Continue Reading →

Incentive Workplace, part of Incentive FM Group, is now into the second phase of work with its client, London and Capital (L&C), the independently-owned wealth management firm. In the first phase working with surveyors Gerald Eve, Incentive helped L&C find… Continue Reading →

National maintenance, refurbishment and new build contractor, Novus Property Solutions has transformed a Luton hotel into a brand new Thistle Express Hotel – the first of a new generation of hotels from glh Hotels. The 10-storey hotel in Luton had… Continue Reading →

The Manchester College has commissioned international design and technology firm, IBI Group, as the lead architects for the £20m overhaul of their Openshaw, Harpurhey and Wythenshawe campuses as part of their five-year estate strategy. The IBI Learning+ design team will… Continue Reading →

Architect Frank Whittle Partnership (FWP) will help deliver a new £3.4m project to re-develop the historic Fratry Building at Carlisle Cathedral. FWP has been appointed project manager and quantity surveyor on the development in the heart of the Cumbrian city, which… Continue Reading →

A builder has died after being overcome by toxic fumes during  refurbishment work on a luxury property in London’s Notting Hill. Medics battled to save him on the street after he was dragged from the five-storey property by firefighters last… Continue Reading →

Balfour Beatty and two of its subcontractors have been fined a total of £1.27m after workers were exposed to asbestos while refurbishing a school in Waltham Forest. Southwark Crown Court heard that on 24 July 2012 a worker removed part… Continue Reading →

The government is reviewing building regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. The move comes as new detailed cladding test results revealed 82 towers do not meet current standards. The latest tests were of a wall cladding system… Continue Reading →