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 ...

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

SOCOTEC UK has expanded with two acquisitions, adding about 200 experienced experts and surveyors and strengthening its position in the building control market. The acquisitions, which provide SOCOTEC ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...