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Last year the now annual Fire Door Safety Week (FDSW) campaign run by the British Woodworking Federation (BWF) reached some 19 million people, through the support of a wide range of organisations and companies helping to spread the word that fire doors save lives and protect property.…
Simon Adamson is Site Manager for Croudace Homes.
During the process of constructing a residential development which included 78 dwellings of two to five bedrooms and a new village hall in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, Simon along with his local council building control inspector decided this was…
We can't quite believe it's that time of the year already, but the LABC Regional Building Excellence Awards 2020 are now officially open!
The LABC awards are the largest business to business awards in the building control sector, and are back for their 2020 cycle, so if you have a…
More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.
The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as…
This guide is intended to help people involved with replacing windows in existing dwellings to understand the 2021 changes to ventilation requirements of the Building Regulations in England. The article provides details on the key changes, along with examples of how compliance can be achieved.…
The first thing that springs to mind when you look at The Dairy in the Yorkshire Dales might not be that it's a holiday cottage suitable for guests with mobility, hearing and visual impairments (although it is). What you might well notice instead is that it's a well designed…
When a property is up for sale and building work has been carried out on it, the seller will need a form of certification to say that the works have been inspected and that they comply with the building regulations.
At least, that seems to be the current view of many engaged in the conveyancing…
We know visits to the circus can be hair-raising but a trip to the one pictured above, sat underneath overhead power lines, might have led to more than that.
Building control surveyors are often involved with Public Entertainment Licences at their authorities and these are granted once…
Regulation 24 of the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended) requires the Secretary of State to approve a methodology of calculation for the energy performance of buildings. The approved methodology for newly built dwellings is the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP).
Background
The…
The challenge
Plymouth City Council wanted to establish an outstanding sporting venue of regional and national significance for sport and recreation, health, education and culture which would be open and affordable to all. The aquatics facilities were to be the largest in southern England (…