Low Carbon Skills fund and Heat Decarbonisation Plans
In the past two years we have successfully supported our clients in the education sector to obtain funding through the Low Carbon Skills Fund.
Project focus: Clarion Housing Group
Commissioned by Clarion Housing Group on two tranches of their trailblazing Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) retrofit programme.
PAS 2035 explained
Flummoxed by PAS 2035 and how it affects your business? Read our handy guide to bring you up to speed. Continue reading…
Reaching net zero by strategic asset management
Decarbonising UK social housing stock at the speed required to achieve net zero will only be possible with coherent strategies that engage occupants and planning departments fully from the start. Continue reading…
Current Market Conditions and Appetite for Risk Briefing Note
The last two years or so have been hard for many sectors. The impact of Brexit, Covid and now the war in Ukraine has led to considerable volatility in the construction market.
Why industry cannot afford to ignore ESG
With growing concern worldwide about the ethics of organisations, there is increasing interest from companies, investors and other stakeholders in environmental, social and governance criteria.
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Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022 – Dylan
As National Apprenticeship Week 2022 comes to an end, we catch up with Dylan Sharma who we first spoke to last year. Continue reading…
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022 – David
Our apprentices are based at our two offices in London and Birmingham. Today we’re catching up with David Browne from our office in the Midlands. Continue reading…
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022 – Hugo
As National Apprenticeship Week 2022 continues, we catch up with one of our newest apprentices, Hugo Webb. Continue reading…
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022 – Frankie
It’s day two of National Apprenticeship Week 2022! Today Frankie Scrivener shares his views of apprenticeships. Continue reading…
Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2022
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2022, we’re catching up with some of our current apprentices. First up is Jai Ghai who spoke to us last year. Let’s see how he’s getting on a year later. Continue reading…
Understanding your estate
Rob Tyler, Partner and Education Sector Lead discusses the importance of condition surveys and how they can help in developing estate strategies, in the Spring 2022 ISBL publication of The Voice.
Practical toolkit for retrofitting existing homes
Following on from our practical toolkit for achieving net zero in new build homes (released in August this year), we are now releasing our second toolkit, this time tackling the issue of retrofitting existing homes. Continue reading…
Practical toolkit for achieving net zero in new build homes
We have produced a new practical toolkit for achieving net zero in new build homes.
Unlock Net Zero – The Future Homes Standard
On Thursday 15th July, Partner John Milner took part in a panel discussion as part of the Unlock Net Zero webinar series.
Quality, Challenges and a Sustainable Future for Blue Light Estates
On Wednesday 23rd June, Baily Garner hosted a panel discussion as part of the Built Environment Networking Blue Light Estates Development conference.
What the End of Gas Means for Heating
Partner John Milner has written an article for the latest edition of the RICS Built Environment Journal on the end of gas heating in our homes. The article discusses the context, regulations, software, the role of heat pumps, whether hydrogen can play a role and looks at retrofit strategies and standards.
Andy Tookey article in Inside Housing
Managing Partner Andy Tookey has written an article for Inside Housing titled ‘Difficulties obtaining PI insurance must be addressed if we are to fix the building safety crisis’.
Inside Housing subscribers can read the article here.
National Apprenticeship Week – Sarb
Sarb Atwal is a Trainee Architectural Assistant in our Birmingham office, who is also studying for a BA Architecture at Birmingham City University. Here is what he had to say about his architecture apprenticeship at Baily Garner. Continue reading…
National Apprenticeship Week – Rory
Continuing to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we interviewed Rory Gibson, an Apprentice Building Surveyor in our Eltham Head office, about his time at Baily Garner so far.
National Apprenticeship Week – Jai
The third of our interviews with our current apprentices this week is with Jai Ghai. Jai is a Trainee Building Surveyor in our Birmingham office and is working towards a Building Surveying degree at Birmingham City University. Here’s how he summed up his apprenticeship at Baily Garner.
National Apprenticeship Week – Ben
Ben Brewster is an Apprentice Project Manager in our Eltham office and is currently studying for a degree in Quantity Surveying at London Southbank University. This is what he had to say about doing an apprenticeship at Baily Garner.
National Apprenticeship Week – Dylan
To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week 2021, we’re introducing some of our current apprentices. Dylan Sharma is a Trainee Quantity Surveyor in our Birmingham office and is studying for a BSc Quantity Surveying at Birmingham City University. We asked him all about his apprenticeship at Baily Garner, and this is what he said.
COVID-19 – an opportunity for change
In March 2020, along with the rest of the world, the UK Construction industry was disrupted in a way that none of us had experienced before by the coronavirus pandemic. At Baily Garner, like most other businesses, we had to react quickly to enable our operations to continue, whilst keeping our employees safe as we went into a nationwide lockdown.
The end of gas?
As part of our involvement with this year’s HOMES UK conference, Partners John Milner and Ian Maun spoke at a session about the proposed future ban on gas boilers in new homes and alternative heating sources that can be considered as a replacement.
Fire Safety, Cladding and the PI Insurance Crisis
We are in an environment where the Government are making millions of pounds available for crucial remediation and compliance work, and there is a need to build more and higher quality housing, which will ultimately be governed by the need for new skills and accreditation. Alongside this, the incremental reductions in PI cover available and the increases in premiums and excesses applied, run the very high risk of restricted capacity in the market, greater risk aversion, or indeed burying one’s head in the sand and less appetite to deliver the work, all potentially leading to the perfect storm.
Managing Partner, Andy Tookey, hosted a round table session at the 2020 HOMES UK virtual event, to discuss the challenges, potential solutions and their implications for the construction market. Below he summarises the key points from the discussion with our panel of speakers from across the industry representing views from the insurance sector, consultants, lawyers, contractors and clients.
BIM and existing buildings: time to rethink?
The tendency to believe that BIM is the sole preserve of new-build construction overlooks the advantages it can have for the management and refurbishment of existing buildings. Partner, Rob Ireland, wrote the following article for the RICS Built Environment Journal to discuss.
Approved Document B (Fire Safety) Amendment
On Thursday 26th November 2020, an amendment was made to Approved Document B (Fire Safety) (ADB) such that the height threshold for provision of sprinklers is no longer triggered at 30 metres, but now at 11 metres for residential buildings, extensions, change of use or material alteration and mixed use properties under Regulation 3 (Building Works). Provisions of additional way finding shall also be required in properties above 11m in height.
Our Office to Residential Bulletin
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy, businesses are changing the way they operate with increased home working. This has caused both owners and tenants to reconsider the future of their office buildings. For our view on the incoming rise of office to residential developments read our latest bulletin
Our Fire Safety Bulletin
Fire safety on construction projects has probably never had a greater profile so our latest Fire Safety Bulletin, showing the impacts of recent legislation on the construction industry as well as what BG are doing to help drive change in terms of fire safety is an important read. in the bulletin we show projects and share information on this changing landscape.
Consultant Thought Leadership Group
Baily Garner are proud to be members of the Consultant Thought Leadership Group, a group of Chartered Surveyors, Employers Agents and Project Managers that have got together to help drive quality and change within the construction industry through collaboration and knowledge sharing. The attached open letter to all our clients discusses the impact of Covid-19 on our industry and discusses some potential ways through