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For the duration of the COVID-19 crisis LABC has closed its office and all employees are working remotely and are fully operational.
The telephone service is still working 020 8616 8120 and for general enquiries use our contact form at https://www.labc.co.uk/contact-us or email us at info@labc.…
Public service building control work closely with the police, fire service and other agencies to help ensure public safety when buildings and structures such as boundary walls, fences and hoardings become dangerous.
This can be due to various reasons:
old age
design defects…
To coincide with International Construction Management Day, the Chartered Institute of Building has released its Craft Your Future lessons on all versions of Minecraft.
As part of the CIOB campaign to attract the next generation of constructors it has developed ‘vanilla’ versions of Craft Your…
More than 500 people from local government have attended a series of LABC/LGA (Local Government Association) regional briefings and questions posed at these events have revealed concern about MHCLG’s plans for reform of the building safety regulation system.
The briefings were part of LABC…
Thanks for attending the recent LABC Technical Seminar - by now you should have received your CPD certificate by email.
As promised, our speakers have put together a one page fact sheet with additional information following their presentation on the day.
We’ve also loaded the presentations…
The Electrical Safety Roundtable and Trustmark have teamed up to create a tool for homeowners, tenants and electricians to use to report unsafe, non-compliant or dangerous electrical work. Taking inspiration from the Health and Safety Executive’s tool for reporting of injuries, diseased and…
The project for the new Great Western Academy, Tadpole Garden Village, Swindon, designed by Scott Brownrigg and built by BAM Construction, was awarded the title of Best Educational Building at the Grand Final of the LABC Building Excellence Awards – one of the most recognised events on the building…
They can be made to be part of a multi-storey building or as standalone structures. Exterior finishes can range from anything, including timber-clad to brick-faced, depending on what the building is used for. All their modular buildings come equipped with plumbing, electricity, heating and cooling…
A career in construction can be a rewarding one but what about when the physicality of the job gets too much, or you feel you need a new challenge to keep you motivated?
Many of our 3,700 network of local authority building control professionals started out in non-building control careers. A…
Friday night saw 250 construction professionals and council building control workers gather for the LABC West Midlands Excellence Awards 2018 at the Telford International Centre. LABC's Head of Network Change and Transformation Richard Scott was host for the evening.
The LABC Building Excellence…