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Regional Winners
Ben Camm
Region: South West
Company: Hembury Homes Ltd
Site Name: Devonia Court
Byron Wells
Region: South…
Regional Winners
Brook View House
Region: East Midlands
Project Team: PLG Consultants, Phill Gill
Local Authority: Leicestershire Building Control Partnership…
Article updated on 31 January 2024All building materials are subject to movement. This movement is due to several reasons however, two are particularly influential on vertical movement in loadbearing masonry. These are thermal expansion and contraction due to temperature changes and moisture…
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…
The new Sports & Learning building at Stephen Perse Senior School, Cambridge, constructed by Kier Construction (Eastern), designed by Chadwick Dryer Clarke and nominated by the local authority building control team from 3C Shared Services was awarded the title of Best Educational Building at…
More than 750 leading construction industry figures attended the LABC Building Excellence Awards at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel to acclaim best practise, quality and standards in construction.
These were the first Building Excellence Awards since 2019 following the global pandemic and LABC…
Can you see what the problem is with this roof?
If you look closely, the purlins connecting to the hip rafter don’t make contact with one another and make very little contact with the hip itself.
Traditional roofs work by distributing loads from the rafters down through to the…
Shortlisted Finalists
Above Town, Devon
Project Team: Harrison Sutton Partnership, Paul Rowden Construction Ltd, James Frost, Hurley and Co, StructureHaus
Local Authority: …
Incorrect use of cavity wall ties is one of the common problems found on site by our building control surveyors. The wrong choice of cavity wall tie, not enough ties, and wrong detailing around openings are frequently spotted.
The image above shows how not to do it; hooking wall ties together,…
Shortlisted Finalists
August Fields, Newhaven
Project Team: Drew Smith, Thrive, Guinness Homes, Calfordseaden
Local Authority: Lewes District Council
Region: South East…