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Local authority building control surveyors provide the building control services for major shopping centres, supermarkets, mixed use developments, national roll-out programmes and small scale fit-outs. Our surveyors have been chosen to provide building control services on the most technically…
The LABC Grand Finals 2024 took place on Friday 24 January 2025, at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel. A celebration recognising excellent projects and individual contributions within the construction industry.A panel of expert judges carefully reviewed a diverse range of exceptional projects,…
JDDK Architects was awarded the title of Best Partnership with a Local Authority Building Control Team at the Grand Final of the LABC Building Excellence Awards – one of the most recognised events on the building industry’s calendar.
A panel of industry experts judged a list of the highest…
Congratulations to Richard Scott who succeeded Jayne Hall as President of LABC for 2016-2017.
Every year a local authority building control member is elected as Junior Vice President, who then in turn becomes President after two years. Richard has 26 years' of experience in building control and…
LABC has become the latest industry body to sign up to the Building a Safer Future Charter.
The Charter has been created to promote an urgent and positive culture and behaviour change in the safety of the built environment. And organisations signing up have to demonstrate support of its five…
The building control teams from six Midlands councils have joined forces to share their considerable knowledge and expertise.
On 12 September 2019, the building control teams from across six local authorities launched Central Building Control Partnership.
The new service is hosted by…
We can’t assume things have been done correctly if there are no records or you can’t see important parts of the construction. If so, unfortunately it may be necessary to uncover some parts of the work.
This will be handled on a case by case basis – the local authority building control surveyors…
Building Regulations applications are needed for most construction projects:
New buildings
All new buildings except agricultural buildings
Garages that are not fully detached and under 30 square metres
Extensions
All extensions no matter how small
Some…
Judging has just finished for this year’s LABC Grand Final Building Excellence awards. Our panel of judges, made up of industry experts, had a tense day of debate - but emerged with the winners of the 14 categories from our shortlist of regional winners.
Our awards showcase buildings and…