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.
To understand whether development genuinely benefits people and place, the industry needs to apply a broader social impact lens from the earliest decisions through to long-term stewardship, says Jasmine Ceccarelli-Drewry at Avison Young UK
The latest chatter around the industry
The government is promising speed and certainty but RLB’s Andrew Reynolds asks if new laws will actually remove the frictions that slow delivery, strain supply chains and push risk down the line
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