Britain is building taller, but a lack of guidance on high-rise residential drainage issues is hampering services designers. There has been a huge shift in the perception of what constitutes a tall ...

Over a quarter of London’s high-rise residential buildings with dangerous cladding are yet to have remediation work completed, more than six years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Over a quarter of ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

The House of Lords has called on the government to address ‘unacceptable’ delays and ‘unclear’ guidance by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), which are leaving residents with unsafe cladding and jeo ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “How do you think I can adapt myself to these modern surroundings?” asks an elderly woman in Stephen Willats’ ...

Tall buildings are complex, risky and visible, so it is imperative that the right team are in place to deliver any high-rise project. At the time of writing, there are 17 projects either in planning ...

In Zaporizhzhia, a fire broke out in a high-rise building as a result of an attack by a Russian drone. Two people are known ...

The deadly blaze at the 24-storey Grenfell tower block in west London has shocked the UK. Fire services around the world have to deal with blazes in high-rise blocks, so what lessons have been learned ...