Articles tagged with "demolition"

A very high profile construction safety incident has claimed the life of one site worker and injured another. Given that it has thrust building health and safety into the spotlight of media...

The lack of new building projects in many parts of the country has led to an increasing focus on renovation and refurbishment contracts. These inevitably bring with them the need to demolish...

In these columns we often report on construction safety problem cases where a Health and Safety Executive Inspector visits a site and uncovers wrongdoing. This case is more unusual in that a...

An old two-storey industrial building, Steetley Chambers in Sheffield, was being demolished prior to redevelopment, but the work was not properly planned. As a result one end collapsed and shop...