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Jewson Live, the UK's biggest trade show for construction industry professionals, takes place on Thursday 15th December 2016 at the NEC in Birmingham, and LABC's own Martin Taylor will be there to talk about building regulation compliance.
The event will have:
FREE…
You might have been affected by Storm Doris when she blew through the UK on 23rd February.
With gusts of up to 95mph, the inevitable damage to property, and disruption to travel, bad storms are becoming an increasingly frequent event that costs the insurance industry millions and…
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Region: Central
Project Team: REACT UK, PLG Consultants, The Jordaan Family,
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Did you know LABC’s collection of 250 registered construction details (RCDs) now includes an additional 114 solid wall or “monolithic” masonry RCDs, which are free to download from the LABC website? The RCDs help you combat the problem of cold bridging at construction joints by reducing heat loss…
The Approved Cables Initiative (ACI) is warning of dodgy cable on the market. The suspect cable has already been sold and may well have been installed on your site. ACI was alerted to the batch of low smoke flex after it was found with a false `BASEC-approved’ sticker on its packaging (see image…
During times like these, it is essential for us to keep things running smoothly and local authority building control teams have been working hard to do just that.
LABC ISO 9001 surveillance audits are now underway virtually, with four building control teams already audited.
The…
Welcome to the LABC Building Excellence Awards Entries for the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2024 (for projects completed in 2023) are now closed and winners will be announced in late August. For more information about our awards please click on the boxes below.
Insulation specialist Actis is to start running its two popular CPD modules next month in live Zoom webinar format. The free training sessions, both certified by the Construction CPD Certification Service, look at addressing the performance gap through reflective insulation and ensuring…
Yes, it is what it looks like!
One of our Building Control teams encountered this DIY toilet installation on a recent project.
The householder had run out of money so had decided to do the internal work himself. The toilet was coupled to the soil stack with flexible ducting usually used for…
Read about the refurbishment and relaunch of the RSC's Courtyard Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon as the newly named The Other Place.