Guidance

This four page guidance note provides 2022 Changes to Approved Document Part L1 Conservation of Fuel and Power in New and Existing Dwellings.

This eight page bulletin gives advice for slating and tiling on metal roof decks. It brings together conventional slate and tile roof covering methods, traditionally supported by timber roof structures, with the now established roof decking systems formed from roll formed metal sheet and sandwich panels, fixed to steel framed buildings.

This four page guidance note covers the design stage, installation and explains how they fit with The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015).

This guidance sets out the competence requirements of the act and how competence can be demonstrated. It covers the definition and role of a Principal Contractor (PC) and Principal Designer (PD).

This guidance sets out the considerations for contractors to help ensure they are aware and fulfilling their responsibilities and obligations under the Act.

This guidance is to help contractors understand the responsibility they may undertake in relation to the design of the works prior to signing contracts.

A 12 page document providing a guide to BS 5427:2016+A1:2017 is the Code of Practice for profiled sheet roof and wall cladding on buildings, highlighting the main differences between the changes between previous and revised Code of Practice.

This guidance gives an overview of the latest revision to Technical handbook: nondomestic—Section 6: Energy places the emphasis on the adoption of a fabric first approach, with higher minimum fabric standards for the external envelope and improved airtightness, along with the use of low-carbon heating technologies.

This four-page guidance note provides an overview of changes to Approved Document L2: Buildings other than dwellings within Part L of the Building Regulations, which had not been updated for nearly a decade.

This guidance gives an overview of the changes to the regulations, standards and supporting guidance relating to external wall systems that have come into force in Scotland.

This short Technical Bulletin explains how contractors can ensure that a project will satisfactorily meet requirements for wind and other loadings, as well as indicating where contractors may find themselves with design responsibility.