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Shortlisted Finalists At Sloane, LondonProject Team: McLaren Construction, Cadogan, ReardonSmith ArchitectsLocal Authority: Royal Borough of Kensington & ChelseaRegion: London Blenkin Memorial Hall, BostonProject Team: Pinnacle Conservation Ltd, Soul Architects Ltd, The…
LABC last week launched their new Quality Management System under the banner 'Build With Us'. LABC started consultation on standards, performance, competencies and qualifications with local authority building control teams two years ago and in 2016 created an autonomous Standards Committee to…
Air tightness testing is the recognised methodology in the UK of measuring the extent to which air is lost through uncontrolled leakage in a building. It is sometimes referred to as air leakage testing or air pressure testing and is a crucial indicator of a building’s energy efficiency.
Over…
Glass balustrades are a popular design feature for the home and for commercial properties. When specifying the use of glass balustrades in any project, there are a number of considerations that should be included in your design to ensure safety and best use of glazing type and fixings.…
Insulation specialist Actis will be presenting its popular SAP training sessions at two LABC virtual roadshows next month.
The first takes place on Wednesday 3 March from noon until 1:30 pm and, despite its virtual nature, is aimed at construction professionals in Cornwall and Devon.…
LABC has partnered with NFCC to give fire safety regulators and fire engineers access to dedicated training materials through a new learning portal.
LABC’s award winning Learning and Development team’s Virtual Learning Environment can now be securely accessed to upload training materials for…
Creating a new building from scratch can have its challenges. But achieving the low energy retrofit of an existing building can in some ways present a greater challenge still. Even so, there is a growing number of impressive and successful low energy retrofits across the UK.
What’s the…
A new survey of LABC’s 3,000 building standards surveyors has shown more than two thirds of local authority building control teams have surveyors with the top level competencies to deal with higher risk and complex buildings.
LABC has established that there are 1,096 local authority building…
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 –…
One of our surveyors came across this on site recently:
At first glance it looked like someone was trying to compress a 100mm toilet discharge pipe into a 32mm waste pipe. On closer inspection our surveyor discovered that the toilet had been repositioned internally after the connection had…