New standards are significant steps to ensure public safety.
The built environment landscape has undergone a period of rapid change and improvement since the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower Fire in 2017.
In this new digital publication, we will focus on these changes and the work continuing to be done to raise standards and safety through the work of industry bodies, manufacturers, architects and specifiers and installers.
Starting with Dame Judith Hackitt’s watershed independent review of building regulations and fire safety, ‘Building a Safer Future’, which was commissioned by the UK Government in the aftermath of the tragedy, up to the publication of the Grenfell Inquiry and recommendations now being enacted by Westminster, these changes and improvements remain ongoing.
Dame Judith has recently highlighted why it is important to have assured competence of those working on higher-risk buildings at every stage of the design, specification and construction process.
Milestones have been hit already and ma
