On the 2nd of December 2024, the UK government introduced the Remediation Acceleration Plan to address the slow progress in fixing unsafe cladding on residential buildings across England. Here is a detailed timeline of the UK government’s cladding remediation efforts highlights a complex journey since the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
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What is a Building Safety Gap Analysis?
The Building Safety Act 2022 requires property owners and managers to ensure high-rise residential buildings meet strict safety standards. A safety case gap analysis helps assess your building’s current practices against regulations.
Mastering Safety Cases for High-Risk Buildings
Responsible for preparing a Safety Case Report? Building safety cases and their subsequent safety case reports are key topics in the industry. Join our monthly webinar to learn how to maintain a compliant building safety case and confidently prepare your Safety Case Report.
Accelerating Building Safety Compliance: Leveraging AI
In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire on 14th June 2017, which claimed 72 lives and underscored critical flaws in building safety regulations, the UK undertook a comprehensive overhaul of its building safety framework. This tragic event set off a chain of...
How AI is Re-shaping Marketing in the Built Environment
It could be argued that the built environment plays a fundamental role in the function of everyday society; operating as an economic engine providing the country’s infrastructure, it is therefore no surprise that the year-on-year growth in the total number...
Navigating the Building Safety Act
Navigating the Building Safety CaseUnderstanding the Safety Case ReportResident Engagement - Beyond the StrategyGet in TouchSpeak to one of our team members today and find out more how Black Boots can assist your Safety Case Reporting!The Building Safety Act...
Step 4 – Writing The Safety Case Report
Speak to one of our team members today and find out more how Black Boots can assist your Safety Case Reporting!In the previous articles, we briefly covered the need to build the safety case of information, then analyse it before filling all necessary gaps....
Step 3 – Filling The Safety Case Gaps
Once the work to gather all safety case information (step 1) and analyse that information (step 2) has been completed, you can undertake the task of filling the gaps. With Part 4 Section 84 of the Building Safety Act making it very clear that an accountable...
Step 2 – Analysing The Safety Case
The first step in creating a safety case report is to compile your digital safety case information. However, once you have done this, it presents you with an opportunity to both validate that you have everything you need and review the documents to ensure...