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Article updated on 31 January 2024Part C1(2) of the Building Regulations requires reasonable precautions to be taken to avoid danger to health and safety caused by contaminants, including radon gas, on or in the ground to be covered by a building and any land associated with the building.A…
Simon Adamson is Site Manager for Croudace Homes.
During the process of constructing a residential development which included 78 dwellings of two to five bedrooms and a new village hall in Meppershall, Bedfordshire, Simon along with his local council building control inspector decided this was…
Recently RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) volunteer crew Guy Cooper, Head of Building Control at Plymouth City Council, hung up his yellow wellies and switched off his pager after 14 years of dedicated service to his local community with Looe RNLI. Everyone who knows Guy will also know…
Harvey Ellis, 25, joined the Derbyshire Building Control Partnership (DBCP) as a trainee building control surveyor in August 2023 after spending seven years as a bench joiner. He was part of one of the first cohorts of LABC Academy building control trainees in England. “I absolutely loved…
Did you know much about building control before you applied to join Hertfordshire Building Control?After careers in the armed forces and ambulance service, I was working on-site on small domestic projects. A builder suggested that building control might be the ideal role for me.There are so many…
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…
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…