The Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017 was the result of a chain of failures by governments, "dishonest" companies and a lack of strategy by the fire service, the final report of the ...

Details need to be submitted to new Safety Regulator before 1 October Building owners can now begin the process of registering their high-rise residential buildings with the new Building Safety ...

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 ...

I NOTE with interest Mark Smith's column ("How tall should Glasgow be? Much, much taller", The Herald, July 15). As an architecture student in 1970 I wrote a dissertation on a high-rise buildings ...

Pushback against the proposed requirement for second staircases fails to grapple with some uncomfortable truths. But the industry is right to ask the government to urgently provide more clarity about ...

As the government attempts to ramp up housing construction, the new system of gateway checks on high rise buildings is adding anything up to 18 months to construction programmes. Joey Gardiner speaks ...

Workers are feared trapped following the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Thailand's capital. A 7.7 magnitude quake struck in neighbouring Myanmar on Friday at a depth of 10km, ...

Stairwells are the only reliable escape route in most buildings. The Hong Kong high-rise fire, which spread across multiple buildings in a large residential complex, has killed dozens, with hundreds ...