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The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has recalled from the UK market a timber product used for construction sheeting after it was found not to consistently achieve the declared reaction to fire performance.

This week marked eight years since the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 72 people lost their lives.

Each year, BSI publish a plethora of new and updated Standards which support the built environment. Dan Rossiter FCIAT, Vice-President Technical and Sector Lead at BSI, has highlighted a few of these standards which he believes are highly impactful for Architectural Technologists.

Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures UK (CROSS-UK) has issued a new safety alert.

The Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) and the Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) have published a revised Code of Practice for the selection of building hardware for fire-resisting and escape door assemblies and door sets.

The government has confirmed the withdrawal of the national classes of fire testing standards in England will come into force on 2 March 2025.

The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) welcomes the publication of the Final Report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) will start "a full investigation" into the causes of a huge fire that ripped through a block of flats in Dagenham, east London this week.

The Grenfell Inquiry has confirmed that it will publish the final part of its report on 4 September.

More than 70 fire safety experts have been appointed to a new £150m UK-wide public sector fire safety framework.

Update to the guidance introduces a new height threshold for the provision of a second staircase in all new buildings over 18 metres.

Time is running out to secure a government funded place on the ABBE accredited External Wall System Assessment Training Programme.

The government has launched its Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS): a fund for residential buildings to fix dangerous cladding.

Housing secretary Michael Gove has confirmed the government will require two staircases in all new residential high-rises taller than 18m, rather than the 30m threshold previously proposed.

More than 20,000 yet-to-be-built homes in the capital have become mired in chaos caused by demands for second staircases on high-rise housing schemes.

RICS is offering training to enable Chartered Members to undertake external wall surveys to provide EWS1 forms and FRAEW reports for medium risk buildings, available now at a heavily subsidised rate.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) is supporting proposals for new residential buildings above 30m to have a minimum of two staircases to improve building safety.

Your views invited.

Your views invited.

The Executive Summary of PAS 9980:2022 Fire risk appraisal of external wall construction and cladding of existing blocks of flats – Code of practice has been published.