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AN EXPECTATION OF SAFETY

Following a report last week by BBC’s Watchdog highlighting the hundreds of new build homes which are a fire risk, we are once again reminded of the dangerous gap between the expectation of safety, the reality of building regulations and the performance of buildings writes Tom Roche, ... http://talk.build/blogs/15/347/an-expectation-of-safety

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