Entries by Lyn

FURTHER AND FASTER TO BUILDING SAFETY, BUT TWO YEARS TOO LATE

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced new measures which go faster and further to improve building safety and in particular with regard to the removal of the combustible cladding that still surrounds many buildings. Mr Jenrick’s announcement is set to name and shame companies who have not begun the removal of the unsafe cladding from […]

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Glenigan reports planning for new build booming

The pipeline of social housing new-build projects entering the planning system boomed last year according to exclusive market research from Glenigan. There was a 14% rise in the number of detailed planning applications to build new homes by registered social landlords last year. Those 527 applications contained plans for 28,489 new social homes, which is […]

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OPTICAL TECHNIQUE THAT EVALUATES CONCRETE SETTING TIMES

Researchers have developed a nondestructive and noninvasive optical technique that can determine the setting times for various types of cement paste, which is used to bind new and old concrete surfaces. The new method could aid in the development of optimized types of cement with less impact on the environment. “Our noninvasive optical method characterizes […]

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Housing crisis: 2020 update

With Christmas behind us and another year being added to the number of years of failure in housing policy, it would be all too easy to let the January blues creep in. The once common concept of home ownership is now an impossible dream for many, and untold numbers of people are being pushed into […]

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Grenfell – Lessons learned will have costs

Sheffield’s £40m fire safety bill in wake of Grenfell tower disaster   Sheffield Council bosses are lobbying the government for fire safety funding following the Grenfell tower blaze. The council says it has always taken fire safety seriously but there are new national recommendations following the tragedy in 2017. Officers have warned these will cost […]

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ABOVE OR BELOW, HOW WILL THE UK SPAN THE IRISH SEA

NORTHERN IRELAND and England could be linked by two tunnels rather than a bridge, according to the latest updates. Last year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson put forward the suggestion of linking Northern Ireland to the rest of the UK by building a bridge over the Irish Sea. The plans would see a 28-mile bridge between […]

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London Underground – The abandoned Line

Despite the result being the world-class public transport system we enjoy today, the history of the London Underground is much a story of failure as it is success. The evidence of one such failure can be seen on the London Underground map – the station Mill Hill East. This Northern Line stop sits on its […]

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Non-regulation manhole covers consistently being used on new developments

Non-regulation manhole covers may be being installed incorrectly on type III roads on new housing and commercial developments across the UK. According to the civils and drainage supplies specialist Scott Parnell Ltd. and manufacturer Wrekin, the issue could cost housing developers significant sums to rectify. The regulations, which were updated as part of Sewers for […]

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Windfloat – Harnessing the Wind

In these troubling times we need all the good news we can get, and this week we finally got some: the largest floating wind turbine to date just went online off the coast of Portugal. One of the three platforms that will make up the WindFloat Atlantic off-shore wind farm was connected to the grid […]

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