The Building Safety Regulator has yet to sanction any building control bodies after assuming oversight of the sector in October 2024, Construction News ...

A council building control team has been named the best in the country. Dorset Council’s building control service picked up the top award at the LABC Building Excellence Awards 2025 and received a ...

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 ...

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 ...