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 ...

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’ ...

Blue Collar Automation is a boutique system integrator that seizes every opportunity to take on big challenges. Founded three years ago by Brennen Dugger, the western Tennessee firm provides a range ...

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 ...

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 ...

Former Hyde chief executive Elaine Bailey and ex-housing minister Nick Raynsford have been appointed to the government’s post-Grenfell building control panel #UKhousing Ms Bailey and Mr Raynsford join ...

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 Health and Safety Executive has published an update on the collapse of building control firm Assent Building Control Compliance which has now gone into liquidation. Assent was set up in 2005 and ...