UK Sets Out Reforms to Address Failures in Grenfell Tower Fire February 28, 2025 By Damian Shepherd The UK set out a raft of reforms designed to improve building safety, as it aims to clamp down on...
Ghosts of Grenfell Disaster: No Penalties for UK Firms That Used Flammable Cladding January 6, 2025 By Tom Bergin When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped...
Who Is to Blame for Deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire? September 5, 2024 By Catarina Demony and Michael Holden A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze concluded on Wednesday that a “culmination of decades of...
UK Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry Blames All Deaths on Incompetence and Greed September 5, 2024 By Michael Holden and Catarina Demony A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster on failings...
UK Parliament Calls in Surveyors to Test for Dangerous Concrete September 6, 2023 By Alex Wickham Tests are being carried out to determine whether the UK Houses of Parliament contain the form of crumbling concrete that...
Polar Park Construction Manager Pays $1.9M Over Minority Hiring Pledge December 28, 2022 The company that oversaw the construction of a minor league baseball park in Massachusetts has agreed to pay nearly $2...
Big Legal Battle Brews Over Nevada Dorm Blast as Students Return August 22, 2022 Three years after a gas explosion ripped through a University of Nevada dormitory, hundreds of students will start moving into...
Emerging Risks: Quantum Computing, Lower Construction Quality, Legal Tech etc. June 24, 2022 By L.S. Howard The global community continues to deal with known challenges such as the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, economic turmoil and...
Iran Building Collapse Kills at Least 14 People May 26, 2022 By Nasser Karimi TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Rescuers dug through debris Tuesday of a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least...
UK Homebuilders Commit More Than £2B to Fix Fire Safety Issues April 18, 2022 By Jack Sidders Developers responsible for building half of the new homes in the UK have committed more than 2 billion pounds ($2.6...