Construction Business: Strategy, Risk and Regulations

Engineers can lead the response to the Building Safety Act

By Sam Harland 2025-03-11T07:00:00

Sam Harland, associate director at Civic Engineers, discusses inventive approaches to the new Building Safety Act, and how it represents an urgent call for the industry to do better

The Grenfell Tower fire was a tragic wakeup call for the UK’s construction sector.

Claiming the lives of 72 people, the fire was the result of a series of failures: each on their own may not have resulted in such a disaster, but combined led to the preventable loss of many lives.

There is an innate complexity to the creation of a building. From design to construction, the process requires the expertise of professionals across a range of disciplines.

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