All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 11
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NewsScottish firm snaps up Stewart Milne’s timber frame arm
£100m turnover business put on the block this autumn
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NewsNHBC denies Kingspan insulation allowed to avoid ‘barrage’ of customer claims
Grenfell Inquiry counsel accuses building control body of being “captured” by Kingspan and “used by them as their poodles”
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NewsTfL seeks JV partner for £1bn housing scheme
Firm wanted to build multiple schemes across West London over the next 15 years
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NewsBuilding control body joked about ‘burning’ issue of misleading Kingspan certificate, Grenfell inquiry hears
Comment followed new tests showing insulation had continued to burn for 20 minutes after end of test
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NewsLABC failed to correct ‘misleading’ Kingspan insulation certificate, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Failure came as local authority building control body was seeking a sponsorship deal with the firm
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NewsIndustry should not have been trusted to build high-rise blocks, government tells Grenfell inquiry
Housing department lawyer said public trust in construction firms had been “misplaced and abused”
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NewsConcealing cladding dangers ‘one of the major scandals of our time’, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Inquiry told that coalition government allowed itself to become the “junior partner” to the construction industry in a drive to cut red tape
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NewsSlow progress on post-Brexit product testing regime ‘could delay more than 150,000 homes’
Construction Leadership Council calls for urgent meeting with business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng as concerns grow over UKCA marking deadline
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NewsKingspan profit to soar on back of building boom
Materials firm says profit in first nine months of year up by 48%
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NewsCost of decarbonising all UK homes could run to £330bn
Research from Savills says government interventions do not go far enough to persuade homeowners to carry out the work
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NewsGove: planning reforms were ‘mischaracterised’
Housing secretary pledges to make ‘compelling’ proposals more effective
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NewsGovernment to announce nearly £2bn for housing on brownfield sites
Sunak to also “re-confirm” £11.5bn Affordable Homes Programme
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NewsHousing associations launch £4bn modular housing framework
Group of 23 social landlords wants to build 10,000 homes by 2023
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In FocusEight key takeaways from the Heat and Buildings Strategy
Hydrogen shelved, potential mandatory EPC targets for mortgage lenders and could new homes be cut off from the gas grid? Here’s our round-up of key points from the Heat and Buildings strategy
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NewsHeat pump grant for homeowners centrepiece of long-awaited heat and buildings strategy
Plans for £5k grant outlined in strategy to decarbonise 30m existing homes and commercial buildings
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NewsSecond big Isle of Dogs scheme given the green light
CZWG-designed cluster of blocks could provide up to 2,000 homes
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NewsConverting vacant Yorkshire mills could deliver 9,000 homes
Historic England says the 237 unused mills in the region could be repurposed into housing
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NewsCanary Wharf Group wins permission for 65-storey Isle of Dogs scheme
Seven-block development features towers up to 225m in height
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NewsContractors put on notice for £750m retrofit framework
Four-year Fusion21 deal to include £500m of work to decarbonise existing homes
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NewsGrenfell cladding compliance was responsibility of others, manufacturer tells inquiry
Cladding manufacturer said project team working on the tower’s refurbishment had failed to analyse the regulatory regime