Building Regulations

The new edition of the Building Regulations Pocket Book has been fully updated with new changes to the UK Building Regulations and Planning Law. This handy guide provides you with all the information you need to comply with the UK Building Regulations and Approved Documents.

This tenth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales.

This book sets out the urgent changes to practices and behaviours required to build a new building safety regime in the UK and prevent a similar tragedy to the fire at Grenfell Tower from reoccurring.

A practical guide to assessing the risk of fire and enhancing the security of retail premises. It identifies the important issues, and encourages an approach in which good fire safety and security practice become familiar and normal to employees.

Simon Polley boils down the regulations to their basic features, explaining the core principles behind them. Easy to read and light enough to carry around with you, this is the ideal introduction to a vital part of your remit as a building control officer, architect or surveyor.

Since publication of the first edition in 1976, The Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated has provided a detailed, authoritative, highly illustrated and accessible guide to the regulations that must be adhered to when constructing, altering or extending a building in England and Wales.

Geared to construction industry professionals, who need to meet the practical requirements of the Building Regs, Guide to Building Control presents all the information contained in the Building Regulations 2010 and Approved Documents in a clear, concise, and fully illustrated format.

This book aims to take the reader through all aspects of fire safety and management in residential settings, from origin and ignition, risk assessment, protection and prevention, as well as comparing effective enforcement options from across all parts of the UK.