All building safety articles – Page 9
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NewsBRE told about misapplied fire tests four years before Grenfell, inquiry hears
Manager at Kingspan rival Celotex emailed BRE flagging concerns in 2013
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NewsGovernment faces fire safety bill rebellion
Conservative backbench amendment aims to make sure leaseholders do not pay cladding repair costs
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NewsStandards body to start random testing of existing construction products
Shake-up by BBA comes in wake of Grenfell Inquiry revelations from materials firms
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: What we learnt from Arconic last week
Hearings focused on the degree to which cladding manufacturer had misled customers over its ACM panels
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NewsKingspan appoints lawyers to aid post-Grenfell reform of insulation business
Shocking Grenfell inquiry testimony prompting firm to bring in head of compliance and confidential hotline
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NewsGrenfell cladding boss denies ‘deliberate concealment’ of test results
British regulator was not told by Arconic of combustible panels’ ‘disastrous’ 2005 test failure, inquiry hears
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NewsGrenfell cladding firm ‘arranged’ for products to pass tests, inquiry hears
Test was used as basis for UK rating, allowing ACM to be used on buildings above 18m
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NewsHead of new building safety regulator appointed
HSE veteran Peter Baker to lead ‘biggest change in building safety for a generation’
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NewsFirm stopped selling Grenfell cladding in France over fire safety, inquiry hears
But UK sales manager of product firm Arconic says he was not told to do so in the UK
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NewsGrenfell inquiry: What we learnt from product makers last week
Details of combustible materials were kept under wraps, inquiry hears in first week back after two-month pause
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NewsWork to replace ACM cladding started on all affected social housing blocks
Government also reveals that more than 2,000 applications have been made to the Building Safety Fund
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NewsHopes government-backed professional indemnity will ease cladding bottleneck
Initiative to help surveyors unable to obtain insurance to sign off EWS1 fire safety forms
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CommentJenrick’s new developer levies are no easy answer to cladding crisis
Support from developers for the levies will surely splinter when detail emerges
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NewsDevelopers respond to anouncement of £2bn cladding taxes
Government warned that measures to solve building safety crisis could have unintended consequences
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NewsJenrick slammed over £3.5bn cladding fund announcement
Campaigners allege ‘betrayal’ as new money will only cover buildings higher than six storeys, with others forced to take out loans
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NewsGrenfell product firm told staff not to share details of flammable cladding, inquiry hears
Manager repotredly told sales staff who asked not to share technical documents
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NewsJenrick poised to announce £5bn cladding fund
Press reports say housing secretary also considering £2bn developer levy
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NewsBarratt interim profit rises despite legacy issues
Housebuilder reports strong first half hit by £51m in ‘legacy’ build issues
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NewsGovernment to announce new cladding plans ‘very shortly’
Housing minister declines to detail new policy, amid reports multi-billion pound fund being considered
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CommentLet’s ‘buy back’ to help victims of the cladding crisis now
Housing associations are in a position to solve the problem of struggling leaseholders unable to sell, says Maureen Corcoran