Material passports are digital documents that record the information of building materials and components, such as their characteristics, value, and potential for re-use. They aim to facilitate circular construction, which is a concept that reduces environmental impact by re-using waste materials from one project to another. Material passports can help owners, occupiers, designers, and constructors […]
The Future Homes Hub has published the Whole Life Carbon (WLC) Conventions and launched a free Future Homes Carbon Assessment Tool to support SMEs in measuring the carbon impact of new homes. Developed by industry experts, the WLC Conventions will ultimately help all homebuilders consistently measure, share and report WLC assessments. The Future Homes Carbon […]
In the latest edition of IEMA’s Transform, Amanda Williams, Head of Environmental Sustainability at CIOB argues a system-level review is needed to deliver a large-scale programme of retrofit for existing buildings. Failure to do so will risk missing net-zero targets. The building and construction sector contributes significantly to climate change, accounting for about 21% of […]
The first legal action brought by the Government under new powers introduced through the Building Safety Act has seen the Court rule in its favour and issue a Remediation Order requiring the freeholder to fix building safety issues within a mandated timeframe. Under the Act, the Building Safety Regulator, councils, and fire and rescue services […]
HSE’s Asbestos – Your Duty campaign highlights the risk of asbestos in buildings and raises awareness of the legal duty to manage those risks. As part of the campaign resource material available, a new podcast has been launched to help support those with a legal duty to manage asbestos in their buildings. To hear about […]
The HSE Asbestos and You campaign urges tradespeople to stay aware of hidden asbestos and protect themselves and others from exposure to asbestos fibres during their work. Every tradesperson is likely to carry out work in a building that contains asbestos at some point. Those carrying out repairs or refurbishment are at a higher risk […]
Only HSE can approve a version of the health and safety law poster. If you employ anyone, the law says you must: display an approved version of the poster, or provide each worker with a copy of the equivalent leaflet You must display the poster where your workers can easily read it and you can’t […]
Incidents of buildings collapsing into roads or because the work has rendered the structure unstable during demolition works have resulted in emergency road closures. This has necessitated interventions by authorities to deal with dangerous structures. Recently, during demolition work on a town centre site, a building collapsed. It breached the hoarding around the site, the […]
In line with the latest version of the CLC recommendation on Industry Card Schemes, which confirms that all cards carrying the CSCS logo for skilled occupations should be achieved by qualification, cards obtained via Industry Accreditation will no longer be renewed from 30 June 2024 and all such cards will expire on 31 December 2024. […]
Build UK has revised its comprehensive and illustrative guidance to the Building Safety Regulations and made available for wider distribution its Golden Thread Guide. Click here to access the latest copies https://builduk.org/BuildingSafetyRegime and https://www.builduk.org/GoldenThread