The Building Safety Act 2022 is more than three years on from Royal Assent. The occupied higher-risk building regime has been live for over two years. Safety case reports are being called in and submitted as part of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) process, and Principal Accountable Persons are, to varying degrees of preparedness, getting…
Two instruments. Two drivers. One external wall. If you manage a residential building in England and Wales, understanding the difference between these could be the gap between legal compliance and legal exposure, or between a sale completing and collapsing. Start Here: The Legal Obligation Most People Miss Before the EWS1 form and before PAS 9980,…
The built environment has long been a male-dominated industry. But that’s changing, and the women in construction driving that change are worth listening to. In this episode of Beyond Four Walls, three members of The DALA Group team, Maddy Lawrence, Charlotte Howlings, and Davinia Potterton, have joined Jodie Fraser on Beyond Four Walls to speak…
For leaseholders in an affected building, the wait for cladding remediation to begin can feel endless. Years of uncertainty – unable to sell, unable to remortgage, living with a fire safety risk they didn’t create and can’t resolve themselves. By the time scaffolding finally goes up, most residents have been through more than most building…
The Remediation Bill gives the headlines two numbers: end of 2029 for buildings above 18m, and end of 2031 for buildings between 11m and 18m. The deadlines are new. The remediation programmes those deadlines apply to, for the most part, are not. Across England, residential buildings are already in active remediation under the Cladding Safety Scheme, the Building…
Most coverage of the Remediation Bill has focused on a few key elements: hard deadlines, unlimited fines, and manufacturer liability. The provision that will most reshape how engineers assess external wall fire risk in England is the one that has barely been reported. The Bill, as announced, will mandate a nationally consistent methodology for the assessment…
The King’s Speech 2026 gave it one sentence. One hundred and twenty-four characters. “My Government will bring forward a Bill to speed up remediation for people living in homes with unsafe cladding.” That brevity is misleading. Behind it sits a substantial new addition to the building safety legislative programme that has run since Grenfell. In places it goes…