Jane Embury looks at wind loading and glazing systems. We’ve recently seen the chaos that bad weather can bring. Storm Christoph was just the latest named storm to hit the UK. It caused flooding around a factory producing a crucial Covid-19 vaccine in north Wales. It also led to some 2,000 properties in the north […]
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Investing for the future
Jane Embury takes a look at the future. It’s easy right now to see the construction industry through the prism of Covid-19. It’s the elephant in the room that we wish wasn’t there. But with a new normal on the horizon, what does the long-term future hold for our industry? More to the point, are […]
A ‘W’ for construction?
Jane Embury looks at what recovery might look like. We’ve all seen different predictions on how recovery in the construction industry will look. Most predictions have been for a V-shaped recovery with mass vaccination allowing for a sharp increase in activity. That model has been likened to a V-shaped recovery. Now, the Construction Products Association […]
A bit of cheer for 2021
Jane Embury gets into the Festive spirit by taking a positive peek ahead. It’s the season to be jolly, so let’s try to be a little bit jolly. For a start, according to consultants PWC, all sectors of the economy can expect a return to growth in 2021. This will be aided by the delivery […]
Codifying for social safety
Jane Embury welcomes a white paper on safety in social housing. Sometimes it takes a disaster in which lives are lost for building or fire regulations to change. Over the years it has come to be called ‘codifying by catastrophe’. It sometimes seems that it’s the only way in which improvements to public safety are […]