Business Matters

Building Regulation Drawings: Your Complete Guide to Compliance and Approval

When planning any construction project in the UK, building regulation drawings are essential documents that transform your ...
Inside Housing

Building control panel flags ‘unreasonable circumstances’ under which commercial bodies return work to councils

The Building Control Independent Panel (BCIP) has made its first public statement, which highlighted that commercial bodies are returning building control work to councils in “unreasonable ...
Property Week

When building control struggles to control

Reflecting on my career, I began in Local Authority Building Control (LABC) just as the market was about to undergo lasting change. In 1985, NHBC became the first Approved Inspector under the Building ...
Architects' Journal

The Regs: Building control is broken – here’s how you can help fix it

The Building Control Independent Panel’s call for evidence is the most significant opportunity in a generation to reshape how we regulate building safety in England. The panel’s ‘problem statement’ ...
Building

Change of focus, elevation of skills and use of tech: how building control must modernise post-Grenfell

Building control is being overhauled following Grenfell. Denise Chevin looks at what changes need to be made Not since the introduction of privatised “approved inspectors” in 1984 has building control ...