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Thursday, August 17, 2017
MICHAEL MURDOCH, DIRECTOR OF EMPLOYMENT AFFAIRS Findings from the World Bank show that the increase in UK life expectancy has shot up from an estimated 76 years old in 1990 to an average of 81 in 2013. A paper published in the medical journal Nature last year even claimed to have evidence that a human lifespan could be up to 115 years old1 . Over the next decade almost 20% of the construction...
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Part 5 – Flues, Chimneys and Exhausts: Installation and Maintenance Continuing our series of looking at the non-cladding aspects of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, we now move onto a key part of a passive fire safety strategy; flues and exhausts. A flue is quite simply a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney to get exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler or a generator out...
Read MoreThursday, August 3, 2017
Assembling buildings as a single, integrated system For a building to be a 'product', you have to start the process off correctly by designing it before you start. Not rocket science, but rarely achievable in the “crack on” world of construction. Most projects start on site far too early and well before the design is fully completed. This means that we end up not in design and build mode, but...
Read MoreWednesday, August 2, 2017
Part 4: The Symptoms vs. the disease - a solution The simple solution to addressing regulation and enforcement does not requires rafts of legislation (except perhaps in fire safety), but the simple enforcement of simplified regulations, which are designed to give us a safe, healthy built environment that we can enjoy in a sustainable way. For this to work Building Regulations and Planning...
Read MoreTuesday, August 1, 2017
Part 3 - The symptoms vs. the Disease After considering fire safety in a previous blog, we now turn to look at the issues caused by regulations and lack of enforcement. There are rightly calls for wholesale change and after years of sniping at ‘unnecessary regulations’ we may have to reverse the attempts at cutting red tape. But what were those regulations that were consigned to history,...
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