The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has been recognised for its outstanding work in supporting members through the complexities of the Building Safety Act (BSA), winning Best Member Engagement Award at last week’s Trade Association Forum (TAF) Awards. This accolade ...

The government has accepted the findings in the full response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report and has set out its plans to act on all 58 recommendations, driving a sweeping transformation to enhance building and fire safety standards. ...

New research carried out by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has revealed construction clients are failing to engage with the new building safety regime. The Association used its regional meetings with members as ‘focus groups’ over a six-month period ...

Publishing a target date for the completion of dangerous cladding remediation works and providing greater transparency on remediation performance are two key recommendations arising from a new report from the UK’s independent spending watchdog, the National Audit Office (NAO). The ...

Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS), the independent champion for change in construction, has completed its acquisition of the Building a Safer Future (BSF) programme. The programme, which creates positive culture and behaviour change in building safety, was launched in response to ...

Multi-discipline principal contractor, Miller Knight, is set to host its first annual Building Safety Forum on 6 November at Villa Park, home to Aston Villa football club. The event will centre on some of the major challenges the construction and ...

Ryan Quinn, Operations Director at doorassure – RW Joinery’s maintenance, repair, and inspection division, explores why FMs must prioritise fire door compliance – not just during Fire Door Safety Week, but all year round It’s Fire Door Safety Week, and ...

The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has today published its second and final report into the circumstances leading up to and surrounding the fire at Grenfell Tower in the early hours of 14 June 2017, which resulted in the deaths of 72 ...

Marc Bradfield, Director at Bureau Veritas, outlines some of his key observations from understanding and observing the Golden Thread The concept of the ‘golden thread’ under the Building Safety Act 2022 is often perceived as complex and daunting, but it ...

The last few years have seen notable changes in legislation and regulations within the FM space such as the Fire Safety Act 2021, The Building Safety Act 2022 and the Fire Safety Regulations (England) 2022, to name a few. These ...