Evacuate, decant or prohibit?
Over 13,000 residents have been forced from their homes due to fire and structural safety concerns in the 8 years since the Grenfell Tower tragedy!
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Golden Thread: Fact, Fiction or Fantasy? – Lunch & Learn Webinar Summary
This month’s Lunch & Learn with Su Butcher – industry veteran, communicator, and all-around straight-talker – dug deep into a topic gaining increasing urgency across the built environment: the Golden Thread of building information.
Managing Building Safety Information at Scale – Lunch & Learn Webinar Summary
Matt Hodges-Long, Founder of TrackMyRisks / Building Safety Register and Steve Bunce Building Safety Case Manager, Lewisham Council discussed challenges in ‘managing building safety information at scale’
Dagenham fire sparks ‘Grenfell 2’ fears acting as a stark reminder of the ongoing building safety crisis
Our CEO Matt Hodges-Long was asked by LBC to write a short opinion piece tracking the 7 years from Grenfell Tower to the Spectrum Building and to give some thoughts on the role of Government in the Building Safety Crisis.
‘Life-critical’ cladding problems affect 2,000 social housing blocks in England
Our CEO Matt Hodges-Long explains that fire safety issues in mid-rise blocks were overlooked due to the post-Grenfell focus on cladding problems inhigh-rise buildings.
Cladding crisis latest: Nearly 10,000 people evicted due to safety concerns since Grenfell
When Sky News approached us for comment on the prohibition (forced evacuation) of the Skyline Chambers building in Manchester it was a good opportunity to share our ongoing research into prohibitions…
How do you solve a problem like Building Safety?
50 months post-Grenfell we are living on borrowed time with Building Safety. Immediate solutions to stabilise the situation are long overdue.