Building Failure
Questions are being asked about why so many of the high-rise tower blocks in England, reclad over the past couple of decades, have been found to be defective and yet, so far, none have been found in Scotland. Could this be because we have a different and, dare I say better, set of Building Regulations […]
A Brief History of Fire
What the Public Inquiry will conclude following the dreadful fire catastrophe at Grenfell Tower remains to be seen but it may be helpful to set it in a historical context. The superstitious premodern view of fire, along with plague, was that it was a visitation from God on sinful humanity. It appeared to strike cities […]