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James Parker


The long wake of the Building Safety Act recently saw Barratt edrow come through with fl ying colours in the upreme Court, establishing a possible precedent that developers wont have to pic up the bill for remedying buildings The landmar case against structural engineer  Corp part of ecom shows that developers can pass on this cost to subcontractors even if the wor was historical, and they commissioned the wor voluntarily


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arratt subsidiary D Trading including David ilson omes won in the upreme Court recently against structural engineer  n  arratt underwent a review of its high- rise buildings and structures in ondon, eicester and Croydon were found to have serious issues owever, the real issue for the industry going forward is that a seven-member judging panel found that URS was accountable for the cost of remedying these defective designs  despite these occurring before the newly tightened provisions of the 


hen the overnment, shoced by the renfell tragedy, ased developers to inspect and remedy defects on their high-rise buildings, arratts was one of the tier s who fully engaged in this process The structural engineers upreme Court case rested on the arcane idea that Barratts was liable as it was not under any legal obligation to remedy the defects, however judges threw it out, in the process clarifying the realities of the uilding afety cts etended  year limitation on liability t would not be a surprise to see a slew cases from developers pursuing designers and subcontractors for historic building safety failings, particularly as they are now in line for a Delayed omes enalty of  if they dont mae a start on permitted sites


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t the same time, momentum is building for central overnment to bolster its avowed support of domestic retrofi t with more robust collateral The nergy ecurity and et ero Committee however recently issued a report on the current efforts, which attaced stop-start measures and short funding cycles, which have undermined confi dence of consumers, installers, and the wider supply chain t also villifi ed the overnment for lacing clarity on how it intends to support retrofi t beyond , when ey schemes are due to epire


The Committees long list of recommendations include a simpler set of schemes suitable for less affl uent homeowners, and more consumer education ne resonant one also echoed the call which is being made ever louder by the ederation of aster uilders, for licensing of retrofi t contractors owever, which of these will the overnment even loo seriously at, given the febrile mi of priorities and challenges its wrestling with


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There is confi dence being shown by a couple of major players on the supply side, that not only the uture omes tandard will eventually see the light of day, but also that the retrofi t agenda is going to icstart a boom for insulation aint obain and nauf recently announced they are to open  factories maing mineral wool, in elton owbray and hotton respectively


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