Government to search for dangerous concrete across its entire estate
All government departments have been told to hunt out collapse-risk concrete on their estates as safety fears continue to grow
Updates on the Building Regulations, including regular columns from Regs expert Geoff Wilkinson
By Greg Pitcher 15 June 2023 1,302 Views
All government departments have been told to hunt out collapse-risk concrete on their estates as safety fears continue to grow
By Gino Spocchia 14 February 2023 8,270 Views
All new residential buildings in London over 30m tall will now need two staircases, the mayor’s office has announced
By will hurst and Richard Waite 13 February 2023 7,809 Views
Turkish government officials have issued 113 arrest warrants for people involved with the construction of buildings that collapsed in last week's earthquake – including architects, contractors and engineers – reports claim
By Richard Waite 30 January 2023 2,334 Views
Housing secretary Michael Gove has become the first minister to admit the government’s building regulations were faulty and unclear before the Grenfell Tower fire
By Will Ing 21 October 2022 6,879 Views
Carbon calculations are being used by developers to justify full‑scale demolition, complete retention and everything in-between. How can the same data be spun so many ways? Will Ing investigates the dark art of whole-life carbon assessments
By Will Ing 30 September 2022 1,609 Views
The government has said it will consider setting ‘a maximum embodied carbon level for new buildings in the future’
By Fran Williams 15 June 2022 45,395 Views
Updated Building Regulations for England take effect today. Here we outline the major changes, what architects need to know and how it will affect current and proposed projects
By will hurst 26 May 2022 55 Views
As the cross-party Commons committee publishes its landmark report on how to build in a climate crisis, Will Hurst catches up with chairman and Conservative MP for Ludlow, Shropshire, Philip Dunne
By will hurst 26 May 2022 289 Views
A report from the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has sharply criticised government inaction on embodied carbon and has echoed all three strands of the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign
By Will Ing 17 December 2021 6,647 Views
Architects and engineers have criticised the government’s amendments to energy efficiency regulations, describing them as ‘a tiny step at a time when we need to be making a huge leap’