Post-Grenfell cladding inspections find other fire risks
By Rob Cave
image captionFlat owners have been organising fire safety checks
Fire safety inspections have uncovered hundreds of blocks of flats in England and Wales with faulty or missing fire prevention measures, the BBC has found.
Flat owners have been looking for evidence of unsafe cladding in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017.
But many of the inspections have revealed problems inside the buildings.
The government said it was introducing the biggest improvements to building safety for 40 years. I m living in an unsafe building
When surveyors visited Lucy Seker s flat in central Manchester earlier this year, they found the cladding was compliant with safety standards.
Tony Kay who has joined Construction Alliance North East s management board CONSTRUCTION Alliance North East has made a new appointment to their management board. Tony Kay has become the latest addition to the Construction Alliance North East (CAN) management board as the regional alliance targets procurement opportunities for North East contractors in 2021. CAN was formed in 2015 to better represent regional SME contractors in the North East and has grown to represent more than 500 businesses in the region since. Joining the board, Mr Kay, president of the Northern Counties Builders Federation (NCBF), brings a wealth of experience. As commercial director at Classic Masonry and Bespoke Concrete Products, he has more than 35 years of experience in the industry.
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Balfour Beatty needs supply chain’s help to slash carbon
Balfour Beatty’s group sustainability director Kari Sprostanova has said the company needs the supply chain’s help to improve sustainability.
The contractor launched a 20-year sustainability strategy called
Build New Features, this week. It includes pledges from the firm to reduce waste generation by 40 per cent by 2030 and go ‘beyond net-zero carbon’ by 2040.
Sprostanova told
Construction News improving sustainability required the whole supply chain to work together. “Working with the supply chain is critical to our solutions,” she said. Sprostanova added that the company is already working with material suppliers, such as concrete producers, to get greener materials.