Here’s a selection of my favourite articles

Longreads

Outrage: building kills – Architectural Review

Inside the Building Safety Regulator bottleneck – Construction News

Lessons on New Towns from Ebbsfleet Garden City – Construction News

New experiments in life sciences buildings – Construction News

Should mental health clauses be mandated in construction contracts? – Construction News

Buildings

London’s Paragon Estate: the UK’s biggest modular remediation job – Construction News

Grand Palais, Paris – Construction News

Future Olympia, London – Construction News

Edge London Bridge: London’s greenest office block? – Construction News

Darlington Railway Heritage Quarter – Construction News

News

Assessor ban leaves doubt over 62 cladding remediation projects – Construction News

Dagenham fire building to be demolished – Construction News

ISG collapse risks £1.84bn of government contracts – Construction News

Kingspan settles in cladding compensation test case – Construction News

Developer blames post-Grenfell reforms for planning breaches – Construction News

Government warned of looming building control collapse – Construction News

Interviews

Northampton South MP Mike Reader on his journey from construction to politics – Construction News

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones on private finance and infrastructure strategy – Construction News

Building Safety Regulator leads: Majority of applications lack ‘basic information’ – Construction News

Music Venue Trust’s Clara Cullen on Covid, cost of living crisis and community ownership – Come Play With Me