All the latest updates on building safety reform
If you don鈥檛 like heights, look away now 鈥�
Remember that old George Formby song? 鈥淭he chambermaids鈥� sweet names I call/ It鈥檚 a wonder I don鈥檛 fall/ My mind鈥檚 not on my work at all/ When I鈥檓 cleaning windows.鈥� Thanks to Chris Billington for the photo
Balfour Beatty launches safety investigation after incident earlier this month
William Burkitt of Stiles Harold Williams Partnership sent this picture of a man who has obviously decided that one ladder is not enough
鈥淣ot only is the plank precariously balanced but there is also a significant fall as the windmill is perched above a rocky outcrop,鈥� notes Clive Woodford, who took this photo while on holiday in Crete.
The government is stuck in a spending straitjacket of its own making. However, borrowing for investment will help to sustain future workload for construction, writes Simon Rawlinson of Arcadis
The latest chatter around the industry
The Labour government is prioritising funding for grant-heavy, and much-needed, social rented homes while also promising to ramp up delivery to 1.5 million homes a year. Innovation to draw in private finance can help square the circle, says Carl Brown
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