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Ensuring building safety

by The Editorial Team

In 1968, a gas explosion in an 18th-floor flat at Ronan Point in east London led to the building’s partial collapse and the death of four people. 

Categories features Tags Building safety
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Making buildings safer

by Peter Baker

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is working closely with local authority building control and fire and rescue services to deliver the new building safety regime in England.

Categories comment Tags Building safety

Builders to fix unsafe homes

by The Editorial Team

More than 35 of the UK’s biggest house builders have pledged to fix all of the unsafe buildings above 11 metres in height that they have built.

Categories news Tags Building safety

Improving building safety

by The Editorial Team

Leaseholders will have more protection from costly remediation bills.

Categories parliament Tags Building safety

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