Contractors subject to claims in CPR35 proceedings as duty holders under the Fire Safety Order (FSO)

Many qualified professionals including Chartered Engineers and registered architects, are currently engaged in disputes involving the remediation of defective fire safety provisions in buildings. Many of these relate to internal...

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12 Aug 2015

| Fire Expert Witness

Defects in building fire safety – is it really rhubarb?

This article first featured in the Summer 2015 issue of the Solicitors Journal The increase of workload for professionally qualified fire engineers acting as expert witnesses on civil cases has...

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12 Aug 2000

| Fire Expert Witness

Tenos’ tips for choosing the right fire expert witness

In the event of a dispute relating to fire safety, it is often necessary to seek advice from an independent and impartial expert witness. As the number of legal cases...

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Regulation 9 – Ignoring independence may cost your project more money than you save

Fire engineering consultants can be viewed as an unnecessary cost at project design stage with contractors feeling that they may have alternative options when approved solutions for fire safety are...

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Defects in building fire safety

Tenos Director and Chartered Engineer Mostyn Bullock continues to investigate the competency in fire engineering practice. In an article recently published in the Solicitors Journal, Mostyn considers the decline in...

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