Hot Topics Flashcards
What has happened as a result of
Grenfell?
- Combustible cladding banned in buildings over 18m - Fire Safety Act - external envelope now to form part of risk assessment - RICS EWS1 as a solution for zero valued properties due to fire risk - Hackett Review and Building Safety Bill
What was the Hackett Review?
Investigation in to the processes of building safety surrounding Grenfell disaster. Made recommendations to go in to the new Safety Bill such as: - No clear regulator - Confusing roles and responsibilities - Lack of specific people responsible for certain areas - Lack of consultation/ consideration of occupiers - Information loss between project stages
What are the features of the
proposed Building Safety Bill?
- New Building Safety Regulator set up by the HSE - Stage Gate processes as part of the design and construction phase to look at the safety management of the building - Golden Thread of Building Information - New Roles: Building Safety Manager and Accountable Person
What are the features of the
proposed Building Safety Bill 2021?
- Introduction of a new Building Safety Regulator set up by the HSE
- oversees more stringent regime for high-risk buildings and meets regulatory requirements during lifecycle.
- give residents in high risk buildings routes to raise concerns
- Ensure clearly identified people responsible for safety during the design, build and use of high rise residential buildings
- New Roles: Building Safety
Manager and Accountable Person
What have the RICS done recently
with the ethical standards?
- Combined the ethical standards
and rules of conduct in to 5 new
Rules of Conduct
Can you tell me about the new
Rules of Conduct?
- Go live on 2nd February 2022
- They focus on:
- Simpler structure
- Clear examples to support each
rule - Focus on respect and diversity
- Focus on data and technology
- Focus on sustainability
What is an ACM and what does the UK say about it?
- Aluminum composite material
- Banned in December 2018 for
any building over 18m that
contains at least one residence. - highly combustible
- one of the key factors that lead to the spread of fire at Grenfell
What were the findings of the
Levett review?
- Sound governance not followed
- Power struggle
- Legal counsel not objective
- Unnecessary escalation
- Dismissed member were wrongly
dismissed
What was the results of COP26?
- Meet next year to talk about reducing CO2 further - Phase down of use of coal (watered down) - Increase money to help poorer countries - Stop deforestation by 2030 - Financial backing of clean technology from investors - NOT ENOUGH
What was the RICS reaction to
CoP26?
- Consulting on new global guidance for sustainability within commercial property - Helped develop ICMS3 - Essay Competition for young professional to meet net Zero - Still finding our feet, but it's what clients want
What is ICMS3?
- International Cost Measurement Standard 3 - Coalition of organisations that are working to produce global cost standards for construction projects - Sets out a consistent method for carbon life cycle reporting
Can you tell me about some recent
Modus arcticles?
Most read articles in the year?
How covid-19 brought on the great digital transformation ( working from home challenges how they kept the built environment digital)
How we established a global fire safety standard?
Can we overcome using fossil fuels within the development?
What is PI?
It is an Insurance policy, which covers the insured party alleged claims made against them for negligence, inadequate advice or service they provided from financial loss.
What is the fire safety act 2021?
Bill first introduced in March 2020 and amends the regulatory reform order 2005
Clarify who is responsible for managing and reducing fire risks in different parts of multi-occupied residential buildings, to prevent future tragedies occurring.
- The Act provides clarification who is accountable for reducing the risk of fires.
- The Act also adds that the external walls of a building as well as the fire doors to individual flats to be included to fire risk assessment
- It is hoped that these two will allow the fire service to take greater enforcement action
What was the latest changes to the Building regulations?
New approved doc has been added on the 15 December:
- Overheating: Approved document O
- infrastructure for charging electric vehicles: Approved document S
Updated approved documents
- Ventilation: approved document F
- Conversation of fuel and Power: Approved L
