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Approved Documents provide guidance on how to meet the building regulations.
Wales Part H contains guidance on foul and surface water drainage, and also refuse storage for dwellings. The Approved Document can be downloaded below, with additional guidance further down.
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…
Nearly 200,000 people descended on Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, for one of the world's largest festivals. Throughout most of the year, the venue is a working farm, but during the Glastonbury Festival it transforms into a vast temporary international city.
A huge amount of work takes place…
Where a building is served by a combined sewer system (a single drain for both surface and wastewater) foul water can backflow from the below-ground drainage system upstream towards the building in certain circumstances.
If a sewer surcharges it can result in this backflow of water and sewage to…
EUROWALL + is a foil-faced rigid polyisocyanurate (PIR) foam board for use as full fill thermal insulation in new domestic and non-domestic buildings. It’s designed to leave a 10mm residual cavity in new external masonry cavity walls up to 25 metres in height in domestic and non-domestic buildings…
How well do you know your roofing terms? All the answers relate to something found, done or fixed on a roof.
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Speaking at Frankham Risk Management Fire Safety in Housing Seminar in Westminster on Wednesday 20 February LABC's Deputy Chief Executive, Lorna Stimpson called on professionals and specialists working in the housing sector not to wait on others to deal with competency issues.
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More than 750 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to acclaim best practise, quality and standards in construction.
These were the first Building Excellence Awards since 2019 following the global pandemic and LABC…
We've put together a coronavirus-related resource page aimed at the construction industry and building control. It lists the documents and Government advice that has been mentioned elsewhere on the LABC websites and communications.
Documents and web links include:
Working safely during…
This aims to explain in simple terms how the Party Wall may affect someone who either wishes to carry out work covered by the Act or receives notification under the Act of proposed adjacent work.