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Our construction and engineering blog offers updates and commentary on the latest legal news affecting those working in the construction and engineering industry.

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29 Oct 2026

Building Safety: First case on regulation 5 of the Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information etc) (England) Regulations 2022

The Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information etc) (England) Regulations 2022 (regulation 5) allows current landlords faced with remediation costs for certain building safety defects to recover specified percentage contributions to those costs from other landlords where recovery from building leaseholders via the service charge is prohibited under Schedule 8 to the Building Safety Act.

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27 Oct 2026

Building safety: New registration requirement for medium rise residential buildings

The Government has introduced the Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill to accelerate the identification and remediation of residential buildings with unsafe cladding. This is the first in a series of blogs from the Mills & Reeve Construction and Engineering team examining the Bill.

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02 Sep 2026

Building Safety: Remediation order - will the First-tier Tribunal vary (extend) the timeframe for compliance?

The latest decision from the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) on remediation orders is about the increasingly thorny issue of seeking to vary (extend) the time for compliance with a remediation order.

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13 Aug 2026

Building Safety consultation - scope of emergency repairs

In July, the Government launched a consultation on the emergency repairs route under the higher-risk buildings (HRB) regime with the aim of improving proportionality and outcomes in building control.

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13 Aug 2026

Building Safety Levy – previously developed sites discount: Update

When Mills & Reeve assembled a team of lawyers from across the built environment sector to explain the Building Safety Levy back in May, I somehow made the team discuss the 50% discount which applies to previously developed sites.

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10 Aug 2026

Building Safety: Oyster Bay Apartments – Remediation by Agreement

Another recent decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) concerns a remediation order (RO) made in respect of Oyster Bay Apartments in Poole.

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30 Jul 2026

Building safety: The Building Safety Regulator revises its approach to Building Assessment Certificates

The BSR has announced plans to revise its approach to BACs for occupied higher-risk buildings, moving towards what it describes as a more "proportionate", "intelligence-led" and "risk-based" assessment model.

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28 Jul 2026

Building safety: First-tier Tribunal makes £3.6m Remediation Contribution Order

This blog discusses the recent £3.68 million Remediation Contribution Order made by the First-tier Tribunal in relation to fire safety remediation works under section 124 of the Building Safety Act 2022.

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07 Jul 2026

Adjudication: Natural justice as a defence to enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision

We don’t often see enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision successfully defended on grounds of a breach of natural justice, but it happened in the recent case of Premier Modular Limited v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2026] EWHC 1404 (TCC).

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01 Jul 2026

Payment in the construction industry - latest case on the calculation of the final date for payment

The recent Deerns UK Limited v VDC LHR11 Limited [2026] EWHC 1509 (TCC) judgment confirms that the final date for payment must be a fixed period, calculated from the due date with no provision to vary or extend the final date.

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01 Jul 2026

Building Safety: Remediation contribution order –the scope of recoverable costs for temporary accommodation

In the recent First-tier Tribunal decision of City of Lincoln Council v Plantview Limited, the Council sought a remediation contribution order (RCO) under the Building Safety Act 2022 against Plantview Limited in slightly unusual circumstances.

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05 Jun 2026

Building Safety: First tribunal decision on regulation 3 of the Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information) etc Regulations 2022 – Stratford Village Property Holdings No 1 Ltd & Anor v East Village Management Ltd

The First tier Tribunal has recently delivered the first judgment directly examining regulation 3 (“Regulation 3”) of the snappily named Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information) etc Regulations 2022. The decision provides important guidance for landlords navigating the remediation funding landscape under the Building Safety Act 2022.