Blogs

Fire doors are an integral part of a building’s passive fire system. They’re designed to compartmentalise a building to prevent smoke and fire to stop it from spreading at speed.

The ‘Accountable Person’ is responsible for maintaining fire doors and ensuring they’re regularly inspected. This article will explain how often fire doors should be inspected and the process you should follow to meet UK regulations.

Recently living in an ever-uncertain world has become the new normal. Currently we are facing up to the word “crisis” on a far too regular basis. The “cost of living” crisis, due to sharp rise of energy prices, has been added onto the health and well-being crisis, just at the point we are getting out of the pandemic and looking to find our BREXIT feet.

Across the globe, various pride events are held during June as a way of recognising the influence LGBTQ+ people have had around the world in securing LGBTQ+ rights.  

There is still a way to go – not just in rights globally but in enabling everyone to be accepted for who they are in all situations they’re in. 

This short blog has been published by SWPA to share the expertise and resources provided by Mills & Reeve to help all procurement professionals and public sector organisations understand and navigate the upcoming changes.

Roofing defects are all too common and can occur at the design stage of your project as well as during construction. This CPD, in association with Garland UK, looks at the most commonly encountered problems and how they can be avoided.

LHC has been working with clients, suppliers and stakeholders to look at how collaborative frameworks can improve safety from procurement, through to design, construction and beyond. We recently discussed this issue in our film, ‘Collaborating to achieve the Gold Standard’, with appointed company Novus Property Solutions.

It is often said that if you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism. Whilst this quip might be true, it suggests that the task of designing suitable environments for people with autism is extremely challenging. Improving the accessibility of our entire built environment for people with PDD is ultimately the end goal, but we need to focus primarily on the first environment an individual experiences outside of the home, school.

Five months on from Professor David Mosey’s ‘Constructing the Gold Standard’ report, I meet Claire Bailey-Jones, head of business development from Novus Property Solutions – a supplier with which LHC Group has a longstanding working relationship – to discuss the key lessons the sector can learn to make tangible, practical differences.

The need for new housing has never been greater and with the Government aiming to deliver 300,000 new homes per year by mid-2020’s there needs to be a radical change in the way new homes are built. There’s some consensus around increasing housing supply to address the backlog of housing need, but there’s less agreement about how best to achieve it.

People across Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset will benefit from a new partnership to build more energy-efficient homes for rent and ownership.