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More than 750 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to acclaim best practise, quality and standards in construction.
These were the first Building Excellence Awards since 2019 and following the global pandemic and…
Approved Documents provide guidance on how to meet the building regulations.
Part B contains guidance on fire safety, including means of escape, fire spread, structural fire protection and fire service access.
First published 7 December 2010.
The Approved Document can be downloaded…
The East Midlands is the latest region to host the annual LABC Building Excellence Awards. Finalists from Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire were among more than 350 guests who attended the region’s awards on Friday 10 June at Athena in Leicester.
Former English Rugby…
The LABC North West Building Excellence Awards took place at the Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester on Friday 26 April 2019. A drinks reception was followed by welcome speeches, a three-course dinner and the awards ceremony.
The LABC Building Excellence Awards showcase buildings and…
Published in November 2020 by the UK Government 'Smart meter installation in domestic new build premises' supports the roll out of smart metering for the new build housing sector.
Aimed at developers and architects, the guidance is especially useful for meter installations in new build…
A radical and wide-ranging set of measures to improve the competence of those who design, construct, inspect, maintain and operate higher risk residential buildings (HRRBs) and make them safer for the public has been set out by a cross-industry group backed by Government, the Industry Safety…
City of London building control department are very proud to have worked with Norman Foster and Partners Architects, Sir Robert MacAlpine Ltd and Stanhope PLC to deliver the multimillion pound Bloomberg HQ - on time- and to a 98.5% BREEAM ‘Outstanding’ level (the highest ever score for an office…
The British construction industry could lose out on 215,000 EU workers if there’s a ‘hard’ Brexit.
According to research carried out for Arcadis by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, the reduction in the British construction work force could be equal to the entire population of…
A report by the Scape Group looks at the current school building challenge across England, by analysing primary and secondary pupil projection numbers from the Department of Education and local authorities.
Mark Robinson, chief executive of Scape Group, said: “The country will soon start…
**UPDATE CLC issued further guidance on 7 January 2021 with some minor changes, including updated guidance on self-isolation and shielding and the removal of the requirement to display a QR code in site canteens.**
With England returning to a second COVID-19 lockdown on 5 November…