Cladding

A competition watchdog has launched a probe into housebuilding due to “widespread concerns about housing availability and costs”, in a move that could have a significant impact on listed developers. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Tuesday the market study would look at sale of houses of […] Click here to view original…

Housebuilding giant Persimmon has revealed a 24 per cent drop in annual pre-tax profit, reflecting the impact of a £275m provision to address the post-Grenfell building-safety crisis. The FTSE 100-listed firm reported a pre-tax profit of £731m in the year to the end of December 2022, compared with £967m […] Click here to view original…

The race to remove combustible cladding has ramped up in Victoria but other significant defects have been found in about one-third of buildings assessed. Dangerous cladding had been removed from 272 buildings as of June 30 2022, more than two-and-a-half times the number completed the year before. The material […] Click here to view original…

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The Fire Safety (FS2) framework is now open for registrations of interest until summer 2023. It includes provision for new or replacement passive and active fire protection measures for existing and new domestic and non-domestic buildings, as well as consultancy and cladding. Dean Fazackerley, Head of Technical Procurement at […] Click here to view original…

The building’s management company said hotel accommodation and meals were organised for evacuated residents The government has asked lawyers to step in after people in a block of flats were told to leave without notice due to fire safety concerns. Cardinal Lofts at Ipswich’s waterfront was evacuated on Tuesday […] Click here to view original…

Malus Court is cold. Inside the Salford Precinct apartment block residents are wrapped, up and there’s an air of malaise. It’s around a year since the Manchester Evening News was last here . In early 2022, bills were very much on people’s mind. That wasn’t down to surging utilities […] Click here to view original…

Even without the heating on, Eddie’s paying £90 a week for energy Malus Court is cold. Inside the Salford Precinct apartment block residents are wrapped, up and there’s an air of malaise. It’s around a year since the Manchester Evening News was last here . In early 2022, bills […] Click here to view original…

A nine-storey block of luxury apartments overlooking Castle Park will have to be stripped back and all its insulation and brickwork replaced because surveys have found flammable cladding was used when it was built. Castle Wharf is in a prominent position on the corner of Finzel’s Reach and part […] Click here to view original…

The MCG is among government-owned buildings that have had cladding removed. (James Ross/AAP PHOTOS) The race to remove combustible cladding has ramped up in Victoria but other significant defects have been found in about one-third of buildings assessed. Dangerous cladding had been removed from 272 buildings as of June […] Click here to view original…