After the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy in 2017, Dame Judith Hackitt called for major reforms to the built environment and its building regulations[1]. However, following this, we have witnessed both an astronomical rise in liability insurance for small practices (acting as a barrier to work) and a misdirected overhaul of Part L of the Building Regulations (threatening to curtail years of environmental progress).
IFRE places itself at the centre of this complicated network of risk, insurance, small practices and environmental standards. Indeed, it operates on the very basis that reduced insurance can be provided to small to medium trader’s in…
