This document gives an overview of the new part 2A of the Building Regulations 2010 introduces regulations regarding “Dutyholders and Competence”. This document focuses on accountability and ensuring that all clients, designers and contractors involved in building work have the required competence and behaviours.
This guidance explains Building regulations and the Building Safety Act for domestic clients and roofing contractors giving a short simplified overview of what Building Regulations are and the Building Safety Act.
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.
NFRC Member M&J Group (Construction and Roofing) Limited, invited NFRC to write a case study where they were undertaking the removal of failing RAAC (Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete).
This four-page guidance note provides a handy reference document with shortcuts to the relevant HSE guidance notes which assist in quickly locating the relevant information that may be needed by roofing contractors.
The guidance outlines the health risks that working outdoors and reminding employers of The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers to assess the risks to the health and safety of their employees arising out of their work activity.
This alert underlines the importance of managing materials, including those on-site that have yet to be used or installed, or where they have been partly installed and remain exposed.
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 is not a method statement but highlights important items that the method statement for Safe System of Work (SSOW) should cover for loading out portal frame structures in preparation for installing roof sheets and panels.
The document is split into sections covering the changes regarding design responsibility, structural properties, minimum roof pitch with or without in plane rooflights, safety, insulation, durability, spacer systems, rooflight area and specification, fibre cement, air tightness, gutters and flashings.
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.
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