Forty years after Loscoe, it is time to think again about landfill
Forty years ago, a bungalow in Derbyshire was destroyed by landfill gas. That morning shaped everything Michelle Moran has done in the three decades since. Now, as the people who built this industry head for retirement and approximately 20,000 unregulated legacy sites sit quietly in the ground, she asks whether the waste sector is ready to look at the part it has spent forty years apologising for.
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Landfill: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Landfill is not a solved problem. Michelle Moran’s presentation at the North West Resources Forum takes a long view — from the legislative turning point of 1986 through to the residual waste challenges the sector faces today — and asks what it will take to manage what we have left behind.
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Egniol’s Practical Guide for the Principal Designer Role Under the Building Safety Act (2022)
The Building Safety Act introduced a new Principal Designer role under Building Regulations — and it applies to far more projects than many teams realise. Emma Hackney, Technical Director Structural Engineering at Egniol, breaks down exactly what PD-BR requires, how it sits alongside CDM 2015, and how to meet your duties proportionately from day one.
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