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The Regs: Are you up to speed with the Building Safety Act? Part 3
Geoff Wilkinson delves deeper into the practical aspects of the new Building Safety Act
Tag: Building Regulations
Handling the Heat Part 3: Legislating for changes for a hotter climate
With scientists predicting a 30 per cent hike in ‘uncomfortably hot’ days in the UK, Anna Highfield looks at how legislation can mitigate overheating in cities
Government bans gender-neutral toilets in all new public buildings
The government is banning gender-neutral toilets in all new non-domestic public and private buildings, under new legislation
Over 20,000 unbuilt London homes caught in second stair ‘havoc’
More than 20,000 yet-to-be-built homes in the capital have become mired in chaos caused by demands for second staircases on high-rise housing schemes
The regs: Grand Designs house turned upside down for fire safety compliance
Geoff Wilkinson looks at an unusual solution to a fire safety problem on a home for a chef looking to host cookery demonstrations
Grenfell tragedy: Gove admits cladding guidance was ‘faulty and ambiguous’
Housing secretary Michael Gove has become the first minister to admit the government’s building regulations were faulty and unclear before the Grenfell Tower fire
The Regs: Take a good look at the drains before progressing with detailed designs
Leaving it to a contractor to discover drainage hazards can derail even the best-designed schemes, warns Geoff Wilkinson
Architects Declare savages government’s ‘woefully inadequate’ climate action
Architects Declare founder Michael Pawlyn has slammed ‘woefully inadequate’ plans to decarbonise construction after the government shot down a bill to regulate embodied carbon
Whole-life carbon assessments – a whole new type of greenwash?
Carbon calculations are being used by developers to justify full‑scale demolition, complete retention and everything in-between. How can the same data be spun so many ways? Will Ing investigates the dark art of whole-life carbon assessments
The Regs: How to specify intumescent coatings correctly
Geoff Wilkinson offers key pointers to specifying fire-protective finishes