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A private sector approved inspector, PWC Building Control Services Ltd (PWC), filed for voluntary liquidation in August 2024. The active building projects that it was working on, if they haven’t already transferred, will almost inevitably now have to revert to public service building control…
Attracting new blood to public sector building control remains an urgent issue as the effects of a demographic time bomb hit, incoming LABC President Jayne Hall says. Jayne, Building Control & Land Charges Manager at West Somerset Council, has officially taken over the year-long voluntary role…
After a weekend of Remembrance in the UK, we at LABC are remembering two of our surveyors who sadly passed away recently.
Justin Booth
Justin Booth was a manager at Bradford City Council Building Control for many years before moving to Harrogate Building Control.
Justin is described by…
The Welsh government has extended the grant funding for recruiting and training new building control surveyors in Wales to total over £1.2m.The announcement follows a successful first round of funding in 2023, which added much needed resource in Welsh local authorities. This saw six new building…
More than 850 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to celebrate best practice, quality, and exemplary standards in construction.
The LABC Building Excellence Awards focus on professional skills and competence, as…
LABC Chief Executive Paul Everall, announced he is to step down from his role at the end of December at LABC's 2019 President’s Reception at the Royal Society on 1 October. Guests were also given the news that current Deputy Chief Executive, Lorna Stimpson becomes joint Chief…
All eight members of the building control team at Swansea City Council have successfully passed LABC's Fire Safety Specialist validation, making them the first such team to get a 'full house'.
The rigorous assessment is independently verified by the Institution of Fire Engineers and a pass in…
During the evening of Thursday 1 August, a fire ignited in an empty building in in Mytholmroyd, Calderdale and by the early hours of Friday, it was clear that, despite the considerable efforts of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, the roofs and floors of the former Walkley's clog…
LABC has become the latest training partner for BRE in its new BRE Academy venture, which provides world class training and education programmes developed in conjunction with the built environment’s best knowledge providers.
These include universities, colleges and professional bodies that…
Dave Sharp, Head of Wrexham Borough Council's Building Control has taken over from Chris Griffith-Jones as LABC's President. The official handover took place at the organisation's AGM in Derby on 6 December 2018.
The AGM also saw the London Borough of Harrow's Building Control Head – Jim King –…