The government’s new target of a quarter of a million new homes a year may well be needed - but will it create problems later on down the line?…
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EcoTherm Eco-Cavity Full Fill is the latest insulation product to become LABC Registered.
It’s a fibre free rigid polyisocyanurate (PIR)…
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Hertfordshire Building Control, the new amalgamation of 7 of the 10 Hertfordshire local authorities, has hit the ground running and registered an…
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Parapet walls behave differently to conventional cavity walls because of their location at the very top of a building where both skins of the parapet…
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The post-war housing shortage led to a boom in new ‘non-traditional’ methods of house construction which were mainly taken up by local and public…
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A photo sent in recently by one of our building control surveyors highlighted a common problem found when the right drainage pipe fittings aren’t to…
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Version 8 of the LABC Warranty Technical Manual includes a new chapter 13 covering coastal locations.
This gives additional advice (over and above…
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Representatives of companies receiving BSI Kitemark™ certification for balustrades
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The 'Fixing our broken housing market' white paper launched in February 2017 continues in the same hard-hitting fashion of the Farmer Report ‘…