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Building Regulations for Designers, Architects and Specifiers

Event overview

  • Dates:
  • Times: 09.00 - 12.30
  • Location: Leicester - TBC
  • Booking closes on

This practical, half day course serves as a good introductory or refresher session for anyone in the construction industry who requires a basic understanding of the Building Regulations and Building Act and how they work in practice. It takes the mystery and confusion out of the Building Control system, explains in clear terms what legislation is involved, when Building Regulations notification is needed and what to expect in practice. This course will give you an overview of the Building Control process and practices and implications for clients, designers and contractors.

CPD: This course counts for 4 hours CPD.

Cost: £75.00 + VAT (Increasing to £80.00+VAT from April 2024)

Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 5 hours including time for breaks.

Course Content & Learning Outcomes:

• Brief history of building regulations

• The Building Act 1984

• The Building Regulations 2010

• When is Building Regulations notification required?

• Schedule 1 - Requirements

• Schedule 2 - Exemptions

• Schedule 3 - Competent Persons Schemes

• Schedule 4 - Where no application is required

• Approved Documents

• The building control process and enforcement

• Public and private sector systems – including the role of the Regulator

 

Who should attend:

  • Architects
  • Chartered architectural technologists
  • Building engineers
  • Chartered surveyors
  • Technicians
  • Builders
  • Contractors
  • Building owners and developers

Trainer profile

Tim Parrett

Tim is a Member of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and also a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).

Tim started his building control career at Shepway District Council and moved to Ashford in 1986. He was appointed as Head of Building Control in 2000 and in 2014 became Head of Development Delivery – managing a broad range of development related functions.

He is also Managing Director of ABC BC Ltd – a wholly owned LA Company- delivering  a wide  range of consultancy services to the industry.

Tim is the current chairman of the Kent Building Control Managers and Vice Chair of the South East Region of LABC.

A past chair of the LABC Training Working Group, Tim is keen to see LABC maintain its position as the market leading building control training provider.

He has lectured at South Kent College and Mid Kent College and regularly presents Continual Professional Development (CPD) seminars to private companies, the CIOB and other professional bodies.