All the latest updates on building safety reform
Some people will go to great lengths for satellite TV
Thanks very much to Ken Tracey for sending in these pictures he took at Palace Court in west London. “Looks like he’s fitting a TV dish,” he observes of the daring climber on the roof
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.
Paul Scott, Avita Rajoo and Sandra Kortus explain the impact of the planned reforms contained in the construction products reform white paper
As the firm’s construction business goes into administration, the industry is left asking whether the burden of regulation, historic claims and low margins is making contracting an increasingly impossible business, writes Dave Rogers
The government’s plan to tighten steel import quotas may be intended to back domestic producers, but for construction firms it risks higher costs, weaker supply resilience and fresh uncertainty at a difficult moment, says David Crosthwaite
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