Continual Professional Development (CPD) is a vital part of the registration of the profession going forward, both for individuals and for teams. The Registered Building Inspector (RBI) Code of Conduct will require individuals to maintain records of and provide evidence of their CPD. The Operational Standards Rules (OSRs) will require employers to make appropriate CPD available to their staff and keep records of this. This will potentially be expensive, time consuming and yet another burden on already stretched resources.

LABC has created a new monitoring and recording portal, myLABC , to help individual members and managers meet these new obligations.

All local authorities will, as part of their current subscription, continue to receive access to the Virtual Learning Environment and will be able to manually upload any CPD they undertake.

Members who elect to subscribe to myLABC will receive an individual log-in, a bespoke tailored calendar of CPD and events based on their work profile. RBI’s will also be able to identify personal training needs and skills gaps identified from their validation assessment (e.g. feedback from the BSCF) with all CPD itemised against the BICoF core competencies and work profile. myLABC will deliver monthly prompts about available resources, unlimited access to courses and learning material, and, perhaps most usefully, an automatic log of all CPD undertaken. This can then be used as evidence for other Competence Assessment Schemes as well as annual CPD returns for Professional Bodies. You’ll never have to remember, evidence, and upload a year’s worth of CPD records again.

Of most interest to managers, is a new dashboard of their surveyor’s learning activity. The VLE will help support performance appraisal and goal setting and automatically generate KPI data for the BSRs OSR Monitoring of teams. This will save many hours of work every year as well as the need to develop manual systems of recording and reporting.

The licence for full access to the system including monthly targeted CPD is £130 per surveyor per annum (£65 / half year) for surveyors in English and Welsh member authorities.

Annual subscriptions run from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025. You can view our T&C's here.

If you have any questions about accessing myLABC please contact the team at mylabc@labc.co.uk. 

This course will give an overview of the building regulation requirements that building professionals require a solid understanding of.

It will look at the application of fire safety principles to building work and the various approaches to demonstrate compliance. It will also discuss principles that can be used to vary guidance but maintain the necessary performance standard.

CPD: This course counts for 3 hours CPD
Cost: £80.00 + VAT per delegate.

Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 3.5 hours including time for breaks.

Course Content & Learning Outcomes

On completion of the course you will have a good general understanding of the following:

• Fire safety requirements of building regulations for different types of building work.
• Functional requirements.
• Application of Regulation 7(2) to 7(4) to a relevant building (residential/institutional
buildings above 18m in height).
• Approved Document B overview.
• Use of BS 9999.
• Use of BS 9991.
• Regulation 38.

Who should attend

This course is suited to any building professional who wants to get a good understanding of fire safety issues.

• Public Service Building control surveyors
• Architects
• Chartered architectural technologists
• Developers
• Builders
• Contractors
• Specialist contractors
• Building consultants
• Surveyors

Good Building Control rarely results in formal action. But does your team really have the necessary skills and competence if formal action became necessary?

This course provides training from informal day to day enforcement activity, through to carrying out investigations and going to court when formal action is required.

It will cover enforcement in areas of the Building Regulations, Unauthorised Work and Initial Notices, with an overview of the relevant changes in the Building Safety Act 2022, Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations 2010 (as amended) from the 1st of October 2023.

CPD: This course counts for 4 hours CPD.

Cost: £80+VAT 

Platform: This course will be held via Zoom and will run for 4.5 hours including time for breaks.

Course Content & Learning Outcomes:

• Informal and formal enforcement
• The Building Act delegated powers/rights of entry
• Enforcement of Building Regulations - Enforcement Policy, Section 35 offences, Section 36 notices and the Stop and Compliance (35B &C) Notices in England.
• How does the Building Safety Act change Enforcement for and by LA’s?
• Action against Building Control? Including current Case Law
• Enforcement of Unauthorised work and Regularisations
• Initial Notices - Reversions
• Planning and investigation - Police and Criminal Evidence Act, witness statements
• Court processes - how to give evidence and what to expect.

Who should attend:

Building control managers
Principal and senior surveyors and team leaders
Building control surveyors
Practice managers, assistant building control surveyors
Trainees and apprentices

Bookings for January 2025 intake are now open

The CIOB level 3 Certificate in Technical Support for Public Service Building Standards is designed for building control administrative staff dealing with the building control function on a day to day basis. This qualification develops the learner’s knowledge and skills to process the workload of the building control team correctly in line with statutory timescales, delivery and performance standards. Students will also understand the importance of their role and how information is conveyed to users of the service.

All learning, lectures and assignments will take place via distance learning on the LABC Virtual Learning Environment. You will have access to the course on the VLE approximately one week before the course start date.

Level 3 Certificate Course Content:

Unit 1 – Introduction to Building Control​

Unit 2 – Building Control Legislation

Unit 3 – Building Control Processes & Functions

Unit 4 – Building Control Service Delivery

For each unit, participants are required to complete an online assignment that is assessed on a pass/fail criteria. Assignments will need to be completed by the end of each Unit.

We recommend a minimum 140 hours self study for this qualification.

January 2025 timetable 

View the Syllabus

Entry Requirements:

GCSE English and Maths or equivalent OR Relevant building control administration experience

Progression to other qualifications:

The Level 3 certificate programme provides the underpinning knowledge and understanding for entry to the Level 4 Diploma in Building Control Surveying. Higher Education providers may consider these qualifications for entry to appropriate degree programmes.

See our recent student feedback

"I would just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to yourself and Richard for making the course as enjoyable as possible and being so supportive, I have just completed my first year in Building Control and I found the course really informative and I definitely learned a few things which I am now able to put into practice."  Beverley Glasgow, DBCP

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