Top 25 Building Safety Wiki articles of 2024

The New Building Safety Wiki launched in June of 2024 as a comprehensive, new, free online centre of building safety information to help promote increased awareness of fire and life safety issues in the planning, commissioning, design, construction, surveying, maintenance, and management of buildings in the UK.

With just under 500 articles directly relating to building safety on the wiki and many more indirectly related, here is a list of the 25 most popular news items since the wiki was launched, with the total number of views nearing some 10,000.

1. Building Safety Act 2022
2. ACM cladding
3. Hackitt review of the building regulations and fire safety, final report
4. Ronan Point
5. How to comply with the Building Safety Case: Fire and Emergency File
6. BS 5839-1: Fire detection and fire alarm system for buildings. Code of practice for design, installation and commissioning and maintenance of systems in non-domestic premises
7. Fire doors in buildings
8. Timber framed buildings and fire
9. Grenfell Tower fire
10. Celotex RS5000 PIR insulation
11. ARB proposals for a new Architects Code
12. HPL cladding - Designing Buildings
13. Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022
14. Registered building inspectors; building types and conflicts of interest updates
15. RIBA Principal Designer Practice Note published
16. Building Safety Regulator - Designing Buildings
17. New Regulations published under Building Safety Act
18. 2022 changes to fire safety guidance and building regulations
19. Meeting the requirements for design and building work in 2024
20. New Building Safety Wiki launched - Designing Buildings
21. Approved Document B: Fire Safety. New enhanced fire safety updates
22. ACM cladding testing by BRE
23. Grenfell Tower Inquiry
24. Fire Safety Act
25. Combustibility

However, since the publication of the final inquiry report, this theme is continually developing from the ongoing remediation of buildings to the upcoming review of the approved documents. Building safety is now (as it always should have been) a core topic for the industry, driving professional competence, industry change, and building improvement.

At Designing Buildings we believe an industry in flux needs to share what it can, whenever it can, and that the Building Safety Wiki is an ideal place for this, as it is updated daily, accessible, free, and easy to use. So if you have a viewpoint or an experience that might help other professionals, or just a gap in the definitions that needs filling, please do create a profile and share it with your industry to help a joined-up movement for the better.

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