Building Failure

Posted by on Jun 27, 2017 in Building Surveying, Education

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

Posted by on Jun 19, 2017 in Architecture, Building Surveying, Residential

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 […]