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Client: Downing
Main contractor: Downing
Architect: Fielden Clegg Bradley
LABC team: Liverpool City Council and London Borough of Lambeth
Project Summary
Downing’s 32 storey ‘Atlas’ building in Vauxhall provides student accommodation, with 553 rooms plus roof gardens, a basement…
LABC has welcomed the Construction Leadership Council’s report ‘Greening Our Existing Homes’ which calls for a national retrofit strategy for the UK’s 28 million homes. Council members have signed an open letter to Business Secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, urging the Government to incorporate the…
Making your home more energy efficient will cut costs in the long run and make it a warmer, more comfortable place to live in the cold winter months and cooler on hot summer days. By reducing your energy usage, you'll cut your carbon emissions and do your bit for the environment too.…
For years, people were talking about how building control surveying was facing a demographic time bomb, with an ageing workforce and far greater numbers leaving the profession than joining as new recruits.
There were dozens of articles written and many discussions across the profession about the…
Below is LABC's final response and fire safety feedback on Dame Judith Hackitt's Review of the Building Regulations June 2018. Also included are links to six appendices:
Building a Safer Future: Independent Review of the Building Regulations and Fire Safety Feedback on the Final Report June 2018…
Password-protected presentation from the LABC Fire Safety in Towers Conference. By Steve Mills, Secretary of the National Fire Sprinkler Network.
LABC has launched a virtual learning hub for its 3,500 surveyors and technical staff aimed at making it easier for them to take part in training, personal development and improve and evidence their competencies.
The online platform contains all the A – Z courses a surveyor will need to…
The FIA (Fire Industry Association) have issued a guidance note on the Building Regulations amendments that came into force in 2018.
The amendment introduced major restrictions on on the combustibility of materials used within external walls of certain types of buildings (referred…
LABC – the independent organisation representing more than 3000 building surveyors working for local councils – has welcomed changes which should lead to higher quality building work and clamp down on rogue builders.
Previous rules had meant that building sites could only be inspected at set…
Yesterday, in a written statement, the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Brokenshire, updated the government's response to the Grenfell tragedy.
Among the announcements were amendments to the approved documents confirming what materials can be used on…