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It's been a strange and unsettling year and we're gutted that we haven't been able to hold the LABC Building Excellence Awards Regional and Grand Finals events in the offline world in 2020. However, we're very pleased to be able to announce the winners and highly commended from the…
This document is part of our suite of technical guidance notes from the Building Control Alliance.
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Shortlisted Finalists
Colin Boyles
Region: Central
Company: Francis Jackson Homes
Local Authority: North Northamptonshire Council
Dan Driver…
Oracle Cancer Trust is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to funding pioneering research into head and neck cancer. Over the past five years Oracle has spent over £1.5m in research that has resulted in real breakthroughs discovering kinder and better treatments for the 14,000 patients who undergo…
It’s now 20 years since the Party Wall etc. Act came into force on 1 July 1997. It applies throughout England and Wales and provides a framework for preventing or resolving disputes in relation to party walls, party structures, boundary walls and excavations near neighbouring buildings.
Anyone…
Article updated on 31 January 2024Too often building work is agreed by shaking hands - regularly with someone you know very little about. Verbal contracts may be convenient, but they offer no protection, especially following the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which came into force on the 1 October. This…
Ashley King is a Building Control Apprentice at London Borough of Havering and loves what he's learning with LABC qualifications while he's carrying out his day job...
What made you decide to work in public service building control?
I have always had an eye for the construction industry…
The boring answer would simply be someone who makes sure building works comply with the building regulations and while this is the core of what a building control surveyor does, the role is so much more interesting and fulfilling.
As a competent building control surveyor, you typically get…
If you are doubling up floor joists, creating trimmers or trimming joists around stairs and chimneys they all need connecting properly so that they can act as a single unit.
Whilst timber floors and their connection details should be designed by a competent person, the ‘Eurocode 5 Span Tables (…