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.
With viable schemes increasingly struggling to reach site, design teams must focus on what they can control: challenging costly assumptions, revisiting early decisions and making viability a shared responsibility, says Oliver Milton
Good work does not always speak for itself. Penny Haslam explains why greater visibility matters in construction and offers three practical ways to raise your profile without feeling like a show-off
The expansive phase of public investment is ending. Government is now betting on leveraging private finance to keep construction’s projects pipeline moving, says Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
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