Successful Partnerships Win Prestigious Awards

Once again it was another very successful year for our Architects and Developers at both the “LABC East Midlands Regional Building Excellence Awards” and the “LABC National Building Excellence Awards”.

A number of projects within Nottinghamshire were nominated at the regional awards which took place at the Village Hotel in Nottingham with two projects, Castle College, Beeston and Chetwynd Business Park, Chilwell, winning their respective categories and going on to represent the region at the National Awards event held at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London. Castle College was ultimately successful in winning both best in category and being chosen as the overall winner receiving the “Supreme Award”.

VAT change from January 1st 2010

Dont forget - from 1st January 2010 the VAT rate returns from 17.5%. This will affect all our Building Control Charges, so to get a copy of the latest charges information, please contact your Local Authority directly. The address and phone number are in the "contact us" section.

New Home Warranty

LABC New Home Warranty together with LABC can provide a complete range of developer services to support your build from start to finish and can assist with the sale of the property with their Home Information Pack service. The advantages of providing these services under one roof allows for significant cost savings to be passed on to you. Benefits of these services include:

Full risk transfer – no restrictions or counter indemnity required
Free road and sewer bonds with no financial penalties (subject to approval)
10 years or 12 years period of insurance and flexibility of tenure selection for Social Housing

For more information contact LABC new home warranty by clicking on the logo below or Tel: 08450 540505

Changes to Part G of the building regulations

Part G of the Building Regulations still looks set to change in April 2010 despite the need to revise the draft Approved document to comply with European requirements. Part G deals with water supply and hygiene, and the principal changes include –

New requirements for buildings to have a “Wholesome” water supply, which also clarifies those fittings where greywater can be used instead.
New requirements designed to limit the water consumption in new dwellings to 120 litres per person per day. (see our calculator in the downloads section)
An expansion of the requirements to cover all hot water systems, not just unvented ones.

Notts Building Control will be running training on the new requirements early in the new year, so if you would like an invite, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Local Building Excellence Awards

On Thursday 21st May over 130 people attended the first Local Building Excellence Awards held in the Carriage Court at Kelham Hall, Newark. Newark & Sherwood District Council and Gedling Borough Council’s building control sections introduced the awards for builders and architects who have used their building control services, to recognise the high quality design and building work within their areas.