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LABC is calling for the building industry to work together to change its culture. The call came at a recent fire safety seminar, organised by RIBA, by LABC's Commercial Director, Martin Taylor (watch the short video below).
Martin has been closely involved in the Hackitt Review sitting on…
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…
The DCLG have established the Building Safety Programme to identify buildings which are of concern following the fire at Grenfell Tower.
There is a dedicated web page for local authorities, landlords and other interested parties responsible for building safety in England and it includes…
Whilst every care was taken to ensure the information on this page was correct at the time of publication, parts of the Building Safety Bill may have been amended by virtue of receiving Royal Assent on 28 April 2022 and the subsequent publication of associated secondary legislation, therefore it is…
Following on from Dame Judith Hackitt’s invitation to LABC to participate in three working groups, LABC’s Commercial Director, Martin Taylor, has now been asked to sit on an additional Golden Thread working group.
The Golden Thread group will focus on key points from the interim report into into…
LABC have now submitted our detailed response to the final report and put simply, we support the Review's whole system approach and all of its recommendations.
Our response attempts to provide a framework from within which the report's recommendations can be implemented with the…
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…
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…
LABC, the organisation representing England and Wales’s 3,000 public sector building standards surveyors, has welcomed the Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s report into the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety – the ‘Hackitt review’.
On building control…
This conference is now past - find out what's coming up!
Back due to popular demand. The LABC Controlling the Spread of Fire in High Risk Buildings conference is coming to Manchester on 22 March 2018.
A lot of discussions over the past nine months have focussed solely on the "18…