All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 10
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NewsSmaller housebuilders warn carbon proposals would ‘break’ them
Authors of Part Z amendments to building regulations told changes will hit SMEs hardest
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NewsFormer official denies government ‘covered up’ cladding test failures
Disastrous 2001 test results on cladding panels used on Grenfell were not made public until this year
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NewsBRE manager did not tell minister that ACM had failed fire test 16 years before Grenfell
Debbie Smith denied reaching agreement with senior official to withhold key details about cladding from minister in meeting three days after fire, inquiry hears
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NewsGetting overseas firms to pay for cladding costs ‘practically difficult’, Gove admits
Housing secretary says ministers may lack ‘total authority’ to force non-UK based firms to pay into £4bn remediation fund
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NewsHomes England to procure £47m legal services framework
New four-year deal will be 60% larger than existing iteration
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NewsContractor Graham wins £130m Wirral Waters build-to-rent job
Birkenhead scheme is the biggest single development at one of the UK’s largest regeneration projects
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NewsGove unveils plans to give legal force to £4bn cladding threats
Ministers plan to amend building law to stop developers from building unless they pay into remediation fund
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NewsMulbury Homes enters administration
Regional housebuilder understood to have appointed Kroll as administrators
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NewsHousebuilders putting the brakes on jobs keeps lid on wage inflation, payroll firm says
Hudson Contract reports average earnings fell 10% last month compared to December’s number
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News‘Serious concerns’ raised about BRE five years before Grenfell fire, inquiry hears
‘Damning’ report found lessons had not been learned at testing house
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NewsHousing starts drop as cost pressures bite, report says
Glenigan review finds project start values have fallen for the fourth month in a row
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NewsPocket Living wins approval for two Old Kent Road schemes
Plans include 11-storey block designed by Hawkins\Brown
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NewsBuilders merchants’ sales grew 30% last year during supply chain squeeze
Analyst calls the figures “remarkable” but warns further supply issues could hit the industry in 2022
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NewsMPs criticise 'unclear' plans to replace gas boilers in UK homes
Public in the dark and lacking direction over policy to install 600,000 heat pumps in homes, cross-party committee report says
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NewsNHBC approved combustible materials because scrutinising them was too ‘time consuming’
Fire engineer at building control body admits the approach was a ‘dangerous mistake’
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NewsKingspan threatened cladding firm with legal action if it revealed results of failed fire test
Grenfell Inquiry hears the 2008 test had failed within 15 minutes with ‘flames coming off the top of the test rig’
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NewsHousebuilding to grow this year and next but won’t hit pre-pandemic level
The CPA says modest growth will not be enough to offset pandemic fall in public housebuilding work
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NewsKier to build 142 homes at former BBC TV Centre for Peabody
West London housing scheme is part of wider 950-home Stanhope regeneration of historic site
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NewsHousing scheme at London hospital site gets green light
Project will be built at Lambeth hospital
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NewsNHBC allowed Kingspan insulation despite describing its certificate as ‘garbage’
National House Building Council warned twice that product was ‘accident waiting to happen’