Updates on the Building Regulations, including regular columns from Regs expert Geoff Wilkinson
Six years after Grenfell, the Building Safety Act is changing the way the industry works. Anna Highfield and Scott Brownrigg Architects’ Neal Morgan-Collins ask whether the changes will prove insurmountable for some
All government departments have been told to hunt out collapse-risk concrete on their estates as safety fears continue to grow
All new residential buildings in London over 30m tall will now need two staircases, the mayor’s office has announced
Turkish government officials have issued 113 arrest warrants for people involved with the construction of buildings that collapsed in last week's earthquake – including architects, contractors and engineers – reports claim
Housing secretary Michael Gove has become the first minister to admit the government’s building regulations were faulty and unclear before the Grenfell Tower fire
Carbon calculations are being used by developers to justify full‑scale demolition, complete retention and everything in-between. How can the same data be spun so many ways? Will Ing investigates the dark art of whole-life carbon assessments
The government has said it will consider setting ‘a maximum embodied carbon level for new buildings in the future’
Updated Building Regulations for England take effect today. Here we outline the major changes, what architects need to know and how it will affect current and proposed projects
As the cross-party Commons committee publishes its landmark report on how to build in a climate crisis, Will Hurst catches up with chairman and Conservative MP for Ludlow, Shropshire, Philip Dunne
A report from the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has sharply criticised government inaction on embodied carbon and has echoed all three strands of the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign
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