In this article, first published in PLC Construction, Katharine Tulloch considers the government's consultation on proposals to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...