The cladding crisis continues to make headlines. The architectural press has been reporting the professional changes and challenges – indemnity insurance, changes to building regulations and standards. I will not be the only architect who has listened to multiple CPDs on these changes over this year. This month, though, it is not the professional impact of cladding I wanted to highlight, but a more personal one.

I spend my days working on high-rise residential projects – and then step outside to see scaffolding slowly climbing up every second building in my neighbourhood as facades are ripped open and re-built.

I live in a tower block which found “workmanship problems” when it was opened up to survey for the EWS1 certificate. I don’t know what the exact problem is – because why would a developer release information like that to the people living in the building? Even if they ask?

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