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Achieving maximum thermal efficiency in a new build or refurbishment is often not as easy as it may seem on paper. As thermal bridging makes up approximately 25% of a building envelope’s heat loss, ensuring this is avoided is crucial. Thermal transmittance makes up a further 45%, with lack of…
Approved Documents provide guidance on how to meet the building regulations.
Part J contains guidance on the safety of heating appliances, including provisions for solid fuel, oil and gas-fired heating.
The Approved Document can be downloaded below, with additional guidance below.
Password-protected presentation from LABC's Fire Safety Conference by Jonathan Evans, Director of Ash and Lacy.
A blueprint to improve competence for those working on higher-risk buildings and drive culture change has been set out by a cross-industry group representing more than 150 organisations in the fire and built environment industries.
Setting the Bar is the second and final report of the…
LABC supported the NHIC (The National Home Improvement Council) debate hosted by President Rt Hon Baroness Maddock in Parliament yesterday. Entitled healthy Homes and the Role of Refurbishment, the debate looked at what needs to be done to raise awareness and standards to ensure UK homes are…
Next week will mark the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report. It is an important milestone in what has been a very long and difficult process for many, especially the bereaved families and survivors of this terrible tragedy. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies remain…
At last month's Frankham Risk Management Fire Safety in Housing event at the Institute of Civil Engineers in Westminster, Lorna Stimpson, LABC's Deputy Chief Executive was one of the keynote speakers and she called on the industry to move forward on competency as a matter of urgency.
Her speech…
At LABC’s Building a Safer Future Conference in Birmingham (Monday 18 June) over 200 construction industry professionals heard from experts about how the Independent Review of Fire Safety and the Building Regulations (aka ‘Hackitt review’) affects the sector and looked at best practice in…
The building regulations help ensure that new buildings, conversions, renovations and extensions (domestic or commercial) are going to be safe, healthy and high-performing.
Detailed regulations cover specific topics including: structural integrity, fire protection, accessibility, energy…
This document is the results of a survey on “Dangerous Structures Resulting from Flooding, Explosion, Vehicular Impact, Subsidence, Fire, Wind and other causes.”