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A guide to farming risks, potential problems with public safety and how to avoid accidents
Guide for designers, surveyors, project managers and installers considering the suitability of roofs to receive internal thermal upgrades.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. It relates to the definition of higher-risk...
Advice on legal responsibilities for managing and maintaining school buildings and land, and ensuring compliance with statutory and regulatory standards.
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 Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)...
How to store oil, design standards for tanks and containers, where to locate and how to protect them, and capacity of bunds and drip trays.
Sets out when planning permission is required and different types of planning permission which may be granted.
How to secure loads on different types of vehicle.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
Guidance about meeting the building regulations, given by decisions on disputes made by the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
How to make your home greener and reduce your energy bills: upgrade your boiler, insulate your loft, draught-proof windows and doors, find out about energy grants.
Find out about eligibility and requirements for the roofing (sprayer washdown area, manure storage area, livestock gathering area, slurry stores, silage stores) item.
Measures to ensure fire safety matters are incorporated at the planning stage for schemes involving a relevant high-rise residential building.
The programme was established to make sure that residents of high-rise buildings are safe – and feel safe – now, and in the future.
Find out about current competent person schemes to self-certify certain types of building work if you work in building as an installer.
A guide for Service families about applying for, maintaining, moving in and out of and living in UK Service Family Accommodation (SFA).
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