The Welsh government has commissioned a review of building control delivery models, including the current mixed market ...

Lorna Stimpson said a looming requirement for inspectors to register with the new Building Safety Regulator could leave many councils short of the staff required to deliver critical services. The ...

Geoff Wilkinson: Can you explain what has changed? Colin Blatchford-Brown: First up, there is a new protected title – the registered building inspector (RBI). From 6 April, only those registered with ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inspectors now have until July to prove competence following today’s announcement of 13 week extension for industry in England Building control professionals have been given an extra 13 weeks to prove ...

Assent Building Control Limited says discussions continue after regulator confirms work on higher-risk schemes must stop because firm did not register as approved inspector The Building Safety ...

More than 14,000 households have been left in a "worrying" situation by the collapse of a company that checks new building work meets safety standards, an industry expert has said. PWC Building ...

Engineering, environment, design and regulatory consultancy Sweco UK has acquired a building control specialist with six offices in England. Established in 2007, Ball & Berry provides Approved ...

Private sector building control firms will struggle to take over the vast majority of projects from collapsed firm Assent, meaning they will transfer to council building control departments, according ...

The advent of electromechanical controls in the 1970s, analog controls in the 1980s, direct digital control (DDC) in the 1990s, and complete building control integration in the 2000s has progressively ...

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