All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 8
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‘Serious concerns’ raised about BRE five years before Grenfell fire, inquiry hears
‘Damning’ report found lessons had not been learned at testing house
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Housing starts drop as cost pressures bite, report says
Glenigan review finds project start values have fallen for the fourth month in a row
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Pocket Living wins approval for two Old Kent Road schemes
Plans include 11-storey block designed by Hawkins\Brown
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Builders merchants’ sales grew 30% last year during supply chain squeeze
Analyst calls the figures “remarkable” but warns further supply issues could hit the industry in 2022
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MPs criticise 'unclear' plans to replace gas boilers in UK homes
Public in the dark and lacking direction over policy to install 600,000 heat pumps in homes, cross-party committee report says
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NHBC approved combustible materials because scrutinising them was too ‘time consuming’
Fire engineer at building control body admits the approach was a ‘dangerous mistake’
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Kingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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Housebuilding to grow this year and next but won’t hit pre-pandemic level
The CPA says modest growth will not be enough to offset pandemic fall in public housebuilding work
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Kier to build 142 homes at former BBC TV Centre for Peabody
West London housing scheme is part of wider 950-home Stanhope regeneration of historic site
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Housing scheme at London hospital site gets green light
Project will be built at Lambeth hospital
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NHBC allowed Kingspan insulation despite describing its certificate as ‘garbage’
National House Building Council warned twice that product was ‘accident waiting to happen’
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Scottish firm snaps up Stewart Milne’s timber frame arm
£100m turnover business put on the block this autumn
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NHBC denies Kingspan insulation allowed to avoid ‘barrage’ of customer claims
Grenfell Inquiry counsel accuses building control body of being “captured” by Kingspan and “used by them as their poodles”
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TfL seeks JV partner for £1bn housing scheme
Firm wanted to build multiple schemes across West London over the next 15 years
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Building control body joked about ‘burning’ issue of misleading Kingspan certificate, Grenfell inquiry hears
Comment followed new tests showing insulation had continued to burn for 20 minutes after end of test
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LABC failed to correct ‘misleading’ Kingspan insulation certificate, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Failure came as local authority building control body was seeking a sponsorship deal with the firm
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Industry should not have been trusted to build high-rise blocks, government tells Grenfell inquiry
Housing department lawyer said public trust in construction firms had been “misplaced and abused”
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Concealing cladding dangers ‘one of the major scandals of our time’, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Inquiry told that coalition government allowed itself to become the “junior partner” to the construction industry in a drive to cut red tape
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Slow progress on post-Brexit product testing regime ‘could delay more than 150,000 homes’
Construction Leadership Council calls for urgent meeting with business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng as concerns grow over UKCA marking deadline
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Kingspan profit to soar on back of building boom
Materials firm says profit in first nine months of year up by 48%