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LABC (Local Authority Building Control) and the Good Homes Alliance have produced a series of free nationwide training events hosted by Jewsons at their facilities to address the performance gap between design and build. The training is funded by Construction Skills and aimed at site managers, sub-…
Entries for the 2025 awards are now open!The LABC Building Excellence Awards are the largest business to business awards in the building control sector in the UK. Our network covers all local authorities in England and Wales and is split into 12 regions.
You'll need a regularisation certificate for any unauthorised building work. This is a retrospective application that your local authority will issue.
You'll find further details in No building regulations approval? What's the solution?
Here are the ways you can pay for your place on the course:
BACS
Cheque
Credit card
Pre-Pay (only available to LABC members)
To book your course go to Courses on the Training section of our website and select the course you are interested in and then the event you wish to attend. If you need help please contact our training team at learning@labc.co.uk.
Welcome to the LABC Cymru Building Excellence Awards
Two separate award ceremonies are held in Wales for North Wales and South Wales. Category winners for each area are then judged with the overall winners qualifying for the LABC Grand Finals in London.
North…
Designing and constructing wide enough foundations is crucial to ensure that the building loads are safely transferred to the ground. This is particularly important as the construction of masonry walls with wider cavities is now commonplace to accommodate the required thickness of insulation to…
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It’s a mistake to assume that all pressure treated wood is the same. Whilst one piece of treated wood may look very much like any other the level of preservative protection could be very different.
That’s because the British Standard for wood preservation, BS8417, says that the level of…
For an application by Building Notice, there are no detailed plans to inspect and approve so you can start work as soon as the notice is accepted - usually within 48 hours.
With a Full Plans application the plans have to be thoroughly examined before being approved. And by law a council must…