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Our free suite of Construction Details provides industry standard designs and specifications for the construction of junctions. They provide a ‘patternbook’ approach showing design details and purchasing specifications to ensure thermal performance. Here’s how they help you.
Proving thermal…
Builders, architects and specifiers keen to gain insight into the latest developments in the construction world without the need to stray far off the M5 might fancy a trip to the latest LABC technical roadshow.
Delegates will be offered an insight, as ever with these monthly seminars, into the…
Understanding lead code requirements for particular work, installation detailing and length of laps are common issues that our building control teams get involved with.
Now there’s a quick and easy way to get the answers to all of your questions with a really clever mobile phone app from the…
Free computer aided design (CAD) drawings of registered construction details (RCDs) are now available. The suite of 250 LABC Registered Construction Details have been launched to help industry combat the problem of cold bridging in construction that will minimise heat loss through the weak junction…
Schoolchildren from across Lincolnshire have been inspired to become architects, builders and quantity surveyors as part of Construction Week 2018.
Pupils from across the county attended the Lincolnshire Showground in West Lindsey, to get an insight into the construction industry from the best…
The challenge
Fairfield Farm College, Dilton Marsh, Westbury in Wiltshire provides education for 36 young adults with learning difficulties. A new single storey building was to be built, which was to house a shop run by students, a small cafe area and additional teaching space. The college would…
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 (…
Buildings will need drying out following initial construction works, water damage from fabric defects or failure of services like water supplies, drainage, or air-conditioning condensate lines, and after a flooding event.
It is not possible to tell whether a material is dry enough to paint or…
Regional Winners
Block A Harvey Combe
Region: Northern
Project Team: North Tyneside Council, Ainsworth Spark Associates, A.E. Robb & Associates
Local Authority: North…
On Wednesday 20 January, a sinkhole appeared in Walmer Street in the Gorton area of Manchester. This was followed the next day by the collapse of two nearby homes.
In total 16 terraced homes were evacuated with two of them suffering almost complete collapse. Fortunately no-one was injured and…