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Guidance providing practical information for placing construction products on the market in Great Britain.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Find details of a building control approver listed on the register of building control approvers (RBCAs) for England.
What you must do before changing a project that has been approved by the Building Safety Regulator.
Building regulation for England covering requirements for infrastructure for electronic communications networks in buildings.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Spreadsheets that registered building control approvers in England and Wales, and local authorities in England should use to submit data to the Building Safety Regulator.
This guidance provides leaseholders with a plain English explanation of the implications of the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document F, which sets standards for ventilation in new dwellings.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Information on inspecting garden and boundary walls.
Building regulation for England setting out the standards of the building materials and skills used.
A collection of historical documents relating to Approved Document B. This includes previous versions of Approved Documents B that are no longer in use, associated FAQs and archived amendment booklets.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a proposed new building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Bu…
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document O, which sets standards for reducing overheating risk in new residential buildings.
Building regulation in England covering the prevention of toxic substances in buildings.
A guide for principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons to report incidents or risks of structural failure, or the spread of fire to the Building Safety Regulator.
What the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) charges for building control, inspection, registration and other functions, and how BSR calculates these.
How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
Use this guidance to help you understand what ‘relevant defect’ means under the Building Safety Act 2022.
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