2024, 2023, 2022 and 2014 are the UK's warmest years on record, according to the Met Office's analysis. In fact, the ten warmest years in the UK since records began in 1884 have all occurred since 2000. The chances of a summer matching the 2022 heatwave in this country could, according to the Met Office, be greater than 50% by 2050.
Dan Rossiter FCIAT has been appointed to join the Fundamental Review of Building Regulations Guidance panel, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has announced.
The House of Lords Industry and Regulators Committee is running an inquiry into the work of the Building Safety Regulator to understand what is and is not working well, and how the BSR can work more effectively.
The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) has today announced its support for regulation of embodied or ‘whole life’ carbon in construction, through the proposed 'Part Z' Building Regulations, as an essential step to delivering a net zero built environment sector.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has added a point of “clarification” to its interim update on the practical implications of the Supreme Court’s judgment on the definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010, in relation to the provision of single sex toilets in the workplace.
