Tag: fears

Barton House [image: Google Streetview]Hundreds of residents of Barton House in Barton Hill, Bristol, were told yesterday to get out of the 65-year-old tower block after surveys revealed structural risks. Bristol City Council said that the block had been subject to a number of surveys...

Workers at social housing landlord Magenta Living are in dispute over new working practices that they fear heighten their risk of  exposure to asbestos. The 100-or-so repair and maintenance workers, who are members of the Unite union, help to look after 13,000 properties, mainly in...

Caterpillar power systemCaterpillar distributor Finning is reporting a 35% increase in demand for back-up generators with customers in construction, healthcare and data centres planning ahead for winter power cuts. Earlier this month the government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy shared its ‘reasonable worst-case...

Rail sensors measure the temperature of the tracksWith record high temperatures forecast for the UK today and tomorrow (18/19 July 2022), with temperatures expected to reach 41 degrees C, there are fears for infrastructure resilience. Network Rail said that the East Coast Main Line was...

The Building Safety Act began life as a review into a flawed regulatory system that allowed the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire to kill so many peopleSome of Dame Judith Hackitt's recommendations for building safety reform have been made but others have been pushed aside during...