All the latest updates on building safety reform
If you don’t like heights, look away now …
Remember that old George Formby song? “The chambermaids’ sweet names I call/ It’s a wonder I don’t fall/ My mind’s not on my work at all/ When I’m cleaning windows.” Thanks to Chris Billington for the photo
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
William Burkitt of Stiles Harold Williams Partnership sent this picture of a man who has obviously decided that one ladder is not enough
“Not only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,” notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
The withdrawal of trade credit cover has historically preceded high-profile corporate collapses - and now construction’s SME supply chains are at risk, warns Julie Palmer of BTG
The skills debate is back. But Class Of Your Own founder Alison Watson argues that construction already has a proven education pipeline – and that industry categorisation and schools policy have combined to keep it invisible
In public sector construction all the talk is about portfolios but the delivery is all focused around projects. Jamie Hillier argues the answer is a business case your project QS can trust
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