One third of UK underwriters are willing to cover fire safety risks in building works to replace defective cladding, and nearly all of the remaining two thirds offer only partial coverage. Three quarters considered that the UK construction industry has not yet learnt...
A new 4% yearly tax on property developers’ profits will fund building fire safety remediation for the coming decade. The tax, announced in the Government’s budget, aims to raise UK£ 2 to 5 billion to remove and replace dangerous building cladding materials, following...
Penta-BDE was fed to mother mice at 0.4 mg/kg body weight per day (orders of magnitude higher than general human population exposure). PBDEs were transferred to offspring both in utero and in lactation and resulted in modifications in brain chemistry and in behaviour...
Recycled ABS was obtained from a plastic producer in China. Levels of individual FRs analysed in the ABS were highest for BTBPE at 1.8 mg/kg, with DecaBDE (BDE 209), several other brominated FRs and TPHP and EHDPP also around 1 mg/kg. Results showed that lipophilic...
pinfa underlined that specific fire safety risks of PV should be considered in EU Ecodesign, GPP and Ecolabel criteria. An EU Commission consultation on the ‘roadmap’ for environmental regulation of photovoltaics closed 28th October 2021. pinfa submitted input...
