The control systems we use in commercial buildings today have evolved over the last 30 years to provide systems that are cost effective, and provide good performance. Beginning in the 1980s, building ...

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 ...

Imagine having access to real-time weather data that affects the performance and efficiency of your building control system. What if your system could make use of live and forecast data such as Light ...

In April, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) appointed a five-person Building Control Independent Panel (BCIP), chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt, to make recommendations ...

Group says changes expected to speed up building control approval process The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) will now allow staged applications for building control approval on all higher-risk ...