In 2024, the UK is only just coming to terms with health and safety issues highlighted by unhealthy or unsafe homes.

From Awaab’s Law to the Building Safety Act, a huge amount of legislation needs qualifying before it facilitates the difference stakeholders in the built environment desperately want it to make.

Last year saw the issues of the past come back to haunt today’s properties with the uncovering of structural issues caused by the widespread use of reinforced autoclave aerated concrete (RAAC) during the 1970s-1990s.