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Building Safety Month 2020 – Safer Buildings, Safer Communities, Safer World
6th May 2020
Building Safety Month is an international campaign in May to raise awareness of building safety. It is run by the International Code Council (ICC) in the USA, which is one of our partners in the building regulations network the IRCC https://www.ircc.info/. The purpose of the Inter-jurisdictional Regulatory Collaboration Committee (IRCC) is to promote effective international…
Responding in a crisis
4th May 2020
The restrictions on usual business practices as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic have posed tough challenges for all of us. I want to start by recognising the fast response by local authorities to ensure the building standard service has been able to continue and commend everyone involved for going the extra mile to maintain…
Fire Safety Standards – latest changes
1st November 2019
As a result of the tragic Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017 reviews of fire safety measures affecting multi storey buildings was undertaken. The Building Standards Division have played a significant part in this process implementing new measures designed to increase safety for building occupants and assist the fire and rescue services when implementing…