Seven companies that played a role in the Grenfell Tower fire may be debarred from public contracts, Westminster Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has announced.
House by house, building by building, retrofit is still being approached as a piecemeal solution to the climate crisis. Denise Chevin asks, how can it be scaled up?
Heat pumps are playing an increasingly important role in both new build and retrofit sectors – Charlotte Lee, Chief Executive of the Heat Pump Association (HPA), demystifies a few things.
The government in Westminster has suspended 39 businesses from fitting new solid-wall insulation in homes after it was alerted to reports of poor-quality work.
Leeds Beckett University, the University of Salford and Loughborough University have been leading research into retrofitting best practice on tricky old housing stock.
The Scottish government has opened a consultation seeking the views of stakeholders on a review of building standards relating to the fire safety of historic buildings converted for hotel use.
The Construction Products Regulation (CPR 2024) updates the existing EU rules in this area, providing an opportunity to adapt standardisation to new technical developments.
Housebuilders Story Homes and Bellway Homes have secured planning permission for a residential development in Poulton-le-Fylde, with 30% of both schemes to be affordable homes for people with a connection to the local area.
A new report from the National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) emphasises the importance of reducing the UK’s reliance on imported critical and scarce materials such as lithium and magnesium by increasing domestic recovery, reuse and recycling.
In the fight of the decade, the bold challenger ambitious for more housing will come to blows with heavyweight champion the housebuilding sector. Roll up, roll up, says Peter Crush.
