As part of the UK Government’s aspirations to become carbon neutral by 2050, measures are being put in place to tackle carbon emissions from properties. London’s homes and workplaces account for 78% of the capital’s carbon emissions, which points to the ever-growing need to address energy wastage from inefficient buildings. One of the ways property developers will achieve this is…

Findings by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government highlighted the problem in 2016/2017 with approximately 320,000 dwellings not being up to the correct energy-efficiency standards and a significantly larger number of properties that will not meet future standards. They also discovered that a rented property is 40% more likely to fail to meet these standards compared to the…

The expansion caused by wall tie corrosion can force apart mortar joints – causing cracking of masonry. Other symptoms include bulging of walls and the lifting of roof edges. In severe cases wall collapse has even been reported. Wall tie corrosion is particularly common in buildings in coastal areas (due to salt-laden driving rain) and in masonry that has…