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Following concerns regarding the consistency and performance of front entrance fire doors to flats, the government set out to investigate the fire…
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During the evening of Thursday 1 August, a fire ignited in an empty building in in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale and by the early hours of Friday, it was…
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LABC have submitted a letter in response to the Government's call for views on redress for purchasers of new build homes and a proposed New Homes…
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On 14 August 2019 Paul Timmins, Chief Executive of ACAI had an article published in Inside Housing in which he argued that the building control…
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A radical and wide-ranging set of measures to improve the competence of those who design, construct, inspect, maintain and operate higher risk…
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LABC’s ISO standard quality management system has gone from strength to strength with more than 230 LABC teams receiving accreditation or on the way…
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LABC has welcomed the responses from various industry bodies and experts that support its call for clarity on MHCLG proposals for a new building…
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Recent advice from the Independent Expert Advisory Panel, set up by the government in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, notes that the risk of…
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The final piece in a three year programme by LABC to identify the competencies of local authority building control staff, standardise learning and…