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We've produced a series of 16 videos featuring LABC's Deputy Chief Executive Lorna Stimpson.
In them she answers a series of questions around the new performance standards framework LABC are introducing to help improve consistency of work in our network of local authority building control teams…
The traditional approach used when two steel beams are provided to support a cavity wall has been to design the beams to each carry half the total load and then connect them with pipe spacers and bolts, even when the loading to each beam was not equal.
This view has been challenged by many…
LABC President, Jayne Hall and Chief Executive, Paul Everall joined parliamentarians, young people, supporters and celebrities at an event celebrating the work of children’s mental health charity (and our charity of the year), YoungMinds.
The Christmas event highlighted the achievements…
The LABC Grand Finals 2024 took place on Friday 24 January 2025, at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel. A celebration recognising excellent projects and individual contributions within the construction industry.A panel of expert judges carefully reviewed a diverse range of exceptional projects,…
The LABC Member Conference took place in Hinckley Island on 25-26 March. It was a record-breaking conference in terms of the number of delegates (350) and exhibitors, and a huge amount of information was passed on to our audience of local authority building control professionals, from a range of…
Your website is at the frontline of all your digital marketing efforts. It’s your very own 24/7 salesman, and more people than ever are using it as the first call of action when trying to find information about your service.
You may not have the ability to completely redesign your website, but…
The LABC Grand Finals 2024 took place on Friday 24 January 2025, at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel. A celebration recognising excellent projects and individual contributions within the construction industry.A panel of expert judges carefully reviewed a diverse range of exceptional projects,…
Introduced in Victorian times, drain interceptor traps were originally installed to stop the smells from sewers venting into properties.
The health risks and dangers of the foul air were not fully understood at the time, and the decision to install interceptor traps was left to individual local…
Our first wave of local authorities working to LABC’s new national standards, which are independently audited by UKAS accredited Alcumus ISOQAR, have all passed the ISO audit. This includes LABC's ‘head office’.
LABC had fantastic feedback from the auditors, including congratulations from Marvin…
Distinguishable stair nosings have been with us now since Approved Document M was first introduced in 1992.
In the last 24 years the document title itself has changed from ‘Access and facilities for disabled people’ to ‘Access to and use of buildings’ and has extended the requirements…