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Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 11 A.M.
- Location: South Lambeth Road
- Booking closes on
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 09.00 - 12.30
- Location: Holiday Inn Kensington High Street
- Booking closes on
This practical, half day course serves as a good introductory or refresher session for anyone in the construction industry who requires a basic understanding of the Building Regulations and Building Act and how they work in practice. It takes the mystery and confusion out of the Building Control system, explains in clear terms what legislation is involved, when Building Regulations notification is needed and what to expect in practice. This course will give you an overview of the Building Control process and practices and implications for clients, designers and contractors.
CPD: This course counts for 3.5 hours CPD.
Cost: £80.00 + VAT per delegate.
Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 5 hours including time for breaks.
Course Content & Learning Outcomes:
• Brief history of building regulations
• The Building Act 1984
• The Building Regulations 2010
• When is Building Regulations notification required?
• Schedule 1 - Requirements
• Schedule 2 - Exemptions
• Schedule 3 - Competent Persons Schemes
• Schedule 4 - Where no application is required
• Approved Documents
• The building control process and enforcement
• Public and private sector systems – including the role of the Regulator
Who should attend:
- Architects
- Chartered architectural technologists
- Building engineers
- Chartered surveyors
- Technicians
- Builders
- Contractors
- Building owners and developers
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 09.30 - 16.30
- Location: The Grange Country House Hotel, Bury St Edmunds
- Booking closes on
NEW COURSE
Designed for delegates looking to enhance their knowledge of the design and installation of drainage, this course covers The Building Act 1984, Part H of the Building Regulations, British Standards and Codes of Practice, different materials and systems, public and private sewerage, septic tanks and cess pools and surface water drainage.
Course content & learning outcomes
- Background and history of drainage design and installation
- Layout and terminology of wastes and drains
- Legislation and installation requirements
- Design and installation of above and below ground drainage systems
- Stack loading and thermal movement
- System ventilation
- Specialist appliances e.g. macerator WCs
- Manholes, rodding eyes and inspection chambers
- Public and private sewers
- Non-mains drainage solutions including septic tanks and cess pools
- Commissioning and testing of sanitary pipework and drains
- Rainwater system design and installation and soakaways including permeable paving solutions .
- Sewerage misconnections
- Drainage and foundations and health and safety issues
- Defects and how to avoid them
This course is aimed at all building control professionals, designers, contractors and site managers who require a more comprehensive understanding of the current practices and innovation in foul and surface water drainage.
In association with Polypipe Terrain
CPD: This course counts for 6 hours CPD.
Cost: Incredibly low price of just £75 + VAT including lunch and course materials.
Testimonials about our drainage courses
"An excellent course as an introduction to good practice."
"Very helpful and thorough course with practical examples and exercises."
"A great course, well presented and good value."
"A very informative and well-presented presentation, with a very knowledgeable presenter and interesting practical demonstrations. An excellent CPD event, thank you."
"Very informative, as a new designer / builder it opened avenues of consideration to my working practice. very good."
Who should attend
This course is suited to any building professional who needs a more comprehensive knowledge of drainage systems.
- Building control surveyors
- Architects
- Chartered Architectural Technologists
- Developers
- Builders
- Contractors
- Specialist contractors
- Building consultants
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 13.30 - 16.30
- Location: Holiday Inn Kensington High Street
- Booking closes on
Fire safety in healthcare is not solely about the physical fire precautions provided; other important factors include the dependency of patients, fire hazards, management policies and the availability of sufficient and adequately trained staff. The Health Technical Memorandum 05-02 provides guidance to achieve a satisfactory standard of fire safety for the purpose of satisfying Part B of The Building Regulations. HTM 05-02 can be used in the design of new healthcare premises and extensions/alterations to existing healthcare buildings. This course is designed to improve knowledge and understanding of HTM 05-02 and explain the alternative approach to fire safety that healthcare premises require.
CPD: This course counts for 3 hours CPD.
Cost: £75 + VAT including course materials
Course Content & Learning Outcomes:
- Introduction to HTM 05-02
- Principles of containment
- Fire extinguishment requirements
- Principles of evacuation
- Progressive horizontal evacuation
- Active and passive fire precautions
- The requirements for compartment and sub-compartmentation
- Design philosophy
- Working examples
Testimonials:
“A good introduction and overview”
“The trainer’s knowledge and presentation was excellent.”
“A very informative and useful course.”
Who should attend:
Architects
Designers
Building control surveyors
Fire brigade
If you have any questions please contact the LABC team by email on learning@labc.co.uk or call us on 020 8616 8120.
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 9.30 A.M.
- Location: Westminster Archive
- Booking closes on
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: TBC
- Location: Green Dragon, Braintree
- Booking closes on
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 09.30 - 16.30
- Location: London - TBC
- Booking closes on
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times:
- Location: Britannia House, Bradford
- Booking closes on
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 09.30 - 16.30
- Location: Macdonald Bath Hotel & Spa
- Booking closes on
NEW COURSE
Designed for delegates looking to enhance their knowledge of the design and installation of drainage, this course covers The Building Act 1984, Part H of the Building Regulations, British Standards and Codes of Practice, different materials and systems, public and private sewerage, septic tanks and cess pools and surface water drainage.
Course content & learning outcomes
- Background and history of drainage design and installation
- Layout and terminology of wastes and drains
- Legislation and installation requirements
- Design and installation of above and below ground drainage systems
- Stack loading and thermal movement
- System ventilation
- Specialist appliances e.g. macerator WCs
- Manholes, rodding eyes and inspection chambers
- Public and private sewers
- Non-mains drainage solutions including septic tanks and cess pools
- Commissioning and testing of sanitary pipework and drains
- Rainwater system design and installation and soakaways including permeable paving solutions .
- Sewerage misconnections
- Drainage and foundations and health and safety issues
- Defects and how to avoid them
This course is aimed at all building control professionals, designers, contractors and site managers who require a more comprehensive understanding of the current practices and innovation in foul and surface water drainage.
In association with Polypipe Terrain
CPD: This course counts for 6 hours CPD.
Cost: Incredibly low price of just £75 + VAT including lunch and course materials.
Testimonials about our drainage courses
"An excellent course as an introduction to good practice."
"Very helpful and thorough course with practical examples and exercises."
"A great course, well presented and good value."
"A very informative and well-presented presentation, with a very knowledgeable presenter and interesting practical demonstrations. An excellent CPD event, thank you."
"Very informative, as a new designer / builder it opened avenues of consideration to my working practice. very good."
Who should attend
This course is suited to any building professional who needs a more comprehensive knowledge of drainage systems.
- Building control surveyors
- Architects
- Chartered Architectural Technologists
- Developers
- Builders
- Contractors
- Specialist contractors
- Building consultants
Event overview
- Dates:
- Times: 10:30-5pm
- Location: The Birmingham Conference & Events Centre
- Booking closes on
The validation assessment has been developed by LABC to enable experienced building control surveyors to demonstrate their competence in relation to building regulation fire safety in the context of high risk and complex buildings (residential and commercial). This also includes Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) included in the draft Building Safety Bill.
THE MEASURE OF COMPETENCY
Whilst many of you have years of experience as Building Control Surveyors there has never been a true demonstrable measure of the competency of a building control surveyor to work on complex and high risk buildings. Whilst many surveyors have qualifications and are members of professional bodies, post Grenfell this is no longer considered enough to validate an individual to work on the most complex of projects. In the near future all levels of building control surveyor will need to have their competence validated in this way in order to be Registered with the Building Safety Regulator
LABC has created an assessment to allow existing experienced surveyors to validate their fire safety competency in working on high risk and complex buildings. This assessment has been written to test four elements of competency in line with emerging industry guidance on competency assessment, namely:
- Knowledge – job specific knowledge required to perform the role / level effectively
- Skills / Experience - relevant and recent job specific capabilities or proficiencies developed (through the application of that knowledge) to perform the role / level effectively supported by peers and mentors.
- Abilities - innate capabilities required of a particular task or situation – personal skills, awareness of strengths and weaknesses and maintaining CPD
- Ethics & Professional Behaviour - moral principles and respectful and courteous business and personal conduct.
THE VALIDATION PROCESS
- STEP 1 – All candidates will be required to complete an application form. Please email certification@thebscf.org for a copy of the application form.
- STEP 2 – LABC will review all applications and contact candidate line managers to obtain their endorsement of the application form.
- STEP 3 – LABC will confirm approval of the application via email with a link to book onto your chosen exam location. LABC members will pay a subsidised rate of £50+VAT, the remainder being covered by 2020/21 membership fees.
- STEP 4 – Candidates sit the exam. All examination centres will adhere fully to COVID-19 guidelines ensuring social distancing and all necessary precautions are in place. The examination is in 2 parts. The first is closed book and lasts for 1 hour. There is then a short break after which there will be a 2 hour open book examination. Due to COVID restrictions, there will be no refreshments provided,
- STEP 5 - Results will be published 8 weeks after the exam date. Results provided will be PASS/REFERRED.
All successful candidates will receive a certificate and an ID card showing that they have passed the validation assessment. Bi-annual renewal of ID cards will be subject to candidates submitting sufficient evidence of ongoing project work in relation to building regulations fire safety on higher risk buildings.
The Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE) has worked with LABC to create this assessment process and has confirmed that by passing the assessment individuals will be able to gain access to membership of the IFE (MIFireE) subject to an appropriate professional portfolio.
If you have any questions regarding the validation assessment please contact the validation team at certification@thebscf.org,
USEFUL RESOURCES
- This document contains information of why this assessment has been created and outlines recommended reading and the structure of the examination.
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Sample paper containing example questions
LABC Virtual Learning Environment
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The LABC VLE is available only to LABC members and contains additional learning resources