Updates on the Building Regulations, including regular columns from Regs expert Geoff Wilkinson
Architects and engineers have criticised the government’s amendments to energy efficiency regulations, describing them as ‘a tiny step at a time when we need to be making a huge leap’
Fran Williams speaks to WilkinsonEyre director Sam Wright about the practice’s approach to fire safety and safe evacuation on the Lord’s cricket ground project
Poorly designed buildings with inadequate ventilation are a major reason for the spread of Covid-19, according to Orla Hegarty, assistant professor at University College Dublin’s School of Architecture
Part Z, a proposed amendment to the Building Regs drafted by industry sustainability experts, already has impressive support – but you and your practice can help us build on that, writes Will Arnold
The government will publish its long-promised Building Safety Bill, which will drastically overhaul building regulations in England and Wales, today (5 July)
Residents of a block at the Stirling Prize-winning Accordia housing scheme in Cambridge face major remediation works after its wooden balconies failed fire safety checks
Plans to steer Building Regulations towards segregated WCs are an attack on trans rights, writes UVW-SAW’s Tatiana Whiting
In the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, professional indemnity insurance premiums have soared while exclusions have ballooned, an AJ survey shows, with 90% of practices worrying that this could threaten their businesses. Will Ing reports
In general, I am optimistic about the year to come, at least from the point of view of architects and others involved with the creation of the built environment, writes Paul Finch
Residents of a Sheffield apartment block designed by AHR – then known as Aedas – have been evacuated after the building failed fire safety tests
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