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Shortlisted Finalists
No 1 & No 2 The Smithy
Region: East Anglia
Project Team: Skinner & Salter Partnership, and Hollins
Local Authority: East Suffolk…
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 West…
More than 900 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at The Grosvenor House Hotel, London to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as well…
Some Approved Inspectors (AIs) have been unable to renew legally required business insurance and they cannot continue to lawfully operate. These FAQs offer advice on why this is a problem and how it will affect building owners.
Approved Documents provide guidance on how to meet the building regulations.
Regulation 7 contains guidance on materials and workmanship.
The Approved Document can be downloaded below.
Public service building control work closely with the police, fire service and other agencies to help ensure public safety when buildings and structures such as boundary walls, fences and hoardings become dangerous.
This can be due to various reasons:
old age
design defects…
The first ever garden villages, which have the potential to deliver more than 48,000 homes across England, have been given government backing. Three new garden towns have also been given the go ahead.
This follows a request for expressions of interest from local areas with ambitious and…
LABC last week launched their new Quality Management System under the banner 'Build With Us'. LABC started consultation on standards, performance, competencies and qualifications with local authority building control teams two years ago and in 2016 created an autonomous Standards Committee to…
Here are our shortlisted finalists who have qualified for the LABC Grand Finals Building Excellence Awards 2023. If you're a winner, book now to celebrate together on the LABC Grand Finals night in January 2024.
LABC is committed to working together with government and the whole construction industry for a new system that puts residents' safety at the heart of everything we do.
We welcome the government's announcement that it will adopt all Dame Judith Hackitt's recommendations. She was clear the…