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Fire legislation - are we doing enough?
25 January 2023
National Account Manager, Aico Ltd.
Keeping up to date with new legislation can be a fulltime job in and of itself. That said, I believe we should acknowledge the progress being made to ensure peoples’ safety and improve the quality of our homes in this country. The Fire Safety Act will hopefully help us achieve both those goals. I see on a daily basis the positive steps being taken by individuals and organisations across the housing sector in order to improve the safety of their housing stock. New legislation and guidance, such as this act, reinforces my view that the UK is leading the way in fire safety.
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Building Safety Act - Safety Case: a case study
30 November 2022
Dan Hollas is Building Safety Director at Clarion Housing
At Clarion we’ve been looking at the ‘Safety Case’ element of the Building Safety Act since it was first mentioned in Dame Judith Hackitt’s review of building regulations and fire safety. I saw it as a vitally important way of understanding our buildings and how we manage them.
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How can we go from principles to the practical implementation of data
8 February 2022
As we come into the new year, I’m looking ahead at what 2022 will have in store for building safety in an environment which seems to change daily. An anticipated highlight will be sharing my thoughts with you on the golden thread of information at the NHF Building and Fire Safety in Housing 2022 in February.
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Building and Fire Safety in Housing Q & A with Victoria Moffett
13 December 2021
Victoria Moffett is the Head of Building and Fire Safety programmes at National Housing Federation
2022 is going to be a significant year for building and fire safety, so we caught up with Victoria Moffett, Head of Building and Fire Safety, at the National Housing Federation to find out why.
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How Citizen is using QR codes to educate residents on fire safety
10 February 2021
Steve Hayes is Head of Communications at Citizen.
How we communicate with our customers is every bit as important as what we say to them. It’s too easy to fall into the trap of thinking a serious message must be delivered in a formal way.
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Introducing Vantage UAV – A NHF Preferred Supplier
8 February 2021
Tony Moore is Commercial Director at Vantage UAV.
We caught up with Tony Moore at Vantage UAV, a drone services and solution company that can provide support to NHF members on asset management, building safety, development and regeneration. Read on to find out more about Vantage UAV and how you can meet them at Building and Fire Safety in Housing later this month.
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How we can come together and raise the bar of building safety
20 January 2021
Tara Agarwal is Director of Building Safety, Customer Services at Peabody and is on our conference advisory board.
The safety of our residents is the number one priority for housing associations. It is also the biggest challenge facing the sector, financially, with g15 housing associations alone projected to spend more on fire safety measures than the government’s building safety fund, but also logistically. Those involved in building and managing high-rise residential blocks on a day-to-day basis are acutely aware of the complexity involved in identifying and managing risk and working out how to best protect people living in these homes.