Obel Tower in Belfast LIVES are being put at risk by alleged fire protection defects at Northern Ireland’s tallest residential building, the High Court has heard. Counsel for the management company and original developers of Obel Tower in Belfast claimed safety issues related to cladding have not been denied. […]Click here to view original web…

General view of The Obel Building, Belfast. (Presseye) Lives are being put at risk by alleged fire protection defects at Northern Ireland’s tallest residential building, the High Court heard today. Counsel for the management company and original developers of the Obel Tower in Belfast claimed safety issues related to […] Click here to view original…

Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, also known as Sick Kids Hospital is covered in combustible cladding. The SNP has been accused of allowing children to be taught in unsafe environments after it was revealed 88 schools in Scotland still have dangerous Grenfell-style cladding. The combustible building equipment was […] Click here to view original…

Moving to the beach or the country isn’t always easier. We were cemented together by co-ownership of our marital home. After 20 years of family life, the house needed repairs, and the mortar in our marriage had crumbled. COVID restrictions prevented us from selling. When restrictions lifted, the sudden […] Click here to view original…

Zutec has announced the launch of a configurable digital cladding remediation solution for housebuilders, developers and owners With the Building Safety Act 2022 receiving Royal Assent, and 45 housebuilders now signed up to Government pledge set out by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities to remediate life […] Click here to view original…

Catching a snippet of BBC Breakfast used to give Suzy Spilling a thrill of satisfaction. There, in the background of MediaCity in Salford, is the apartment building into which she and her husband Colin poured their life savings . Now, the sight of it makes her stomach churn. When […] Click here to view original…

Cladding: ACM insulation is now banned in Scotland. Scottish Labour has accused Holyrood of “dragging its heels” over the removal of Grenfell-style cladding on public buildings. The Scottish Government has earmarked £180m to fund the removal of aluminium composite material (ACM) insulation, however the vast majority of that pot […] Click here to view original…

There are compelling reasons why it would be unwise to buy shares in housebuilders at present – however cheap they may seem. The list of reasons includes forecasts that the property market will weaken as incomes are squeezed by higher food costs and fuel bills, and further interest-rate rises. […] Click here to view original…

Construction site in England, U.K Shares in the U.K’s largest listed homebuilders skidded on Friday after HSBC released a report downgrading the entire sector. The U.K housing market is set to take a battering, with mortgage rates already surging to its highest level in July in six years, according […] Click here to view original…

Insurers and the government have developed a new insurance approach that could speed up removals of unsafe cladding, such as that involved in the Grenfell Tower disaster. The International Underwriting Association (IUA) said it hoped to resolve what had been a “difficult” market for firms seeking cover. It worked […] Click here to view original…

The wording has been developed by the International Underwriting Association (IUA) and Government for use in work being completed under the government’s £4.5bn Building Safety Fund. The model clause is freely available for use by underwriters looking to provide professional indemnity insurance for building cladding remediation work. Levelling up […] Click here to view original…

1 hour A new model insurance clause covering fire safety risks has been drawn up to remove blocks on fire safety works on high-rise residential buildings. In the wake of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, developers, contractors and indeed the whole construction supply chain have been wading through impediments […] Click here to view original…