Specifying reused structural steel: some professional indemnity insurance considerations

Claire Meade and Stephen Hargreaves of insurance broker Griffiths & Armour provide an update of insurers' attitudes to MMC and implications for designers' insurance policies.

This month we present a report expressing concerns about a repeat failure of building cladding, in severe but not exceptional winds, that saw panels fall to the public street below.

Jose Torero, Katherine Cashell and Oliver Wilton summarise the key issues around fire safety of structural timber, and explore where responsibility for this lies under new regulations in the UK.