BUILDING REGULATIONS

The UK Building Regulations known as the approved documents are a collection of standards to which all building design and construction works must adhere too. These series of documents detail the required criteria for all aspects of the design and construction of buildings to ensure the safety, comfort and health for people in or about those buildings as well as ensuring that current thermal performance and required energy efficiencies are achieved. They also include requirements to ensure that structural integrity, drainage provisions, fire safety and facilities are provided for people, including those with disabilities, to access and move around inside buildings.

Ribble Valley Architecture have an in depth knowledge and experience of producing detailed building regulation and construction drawings and pride ourselves on the level of detail and clarity we demonstrate in our building regulation drawings and construction specification writing.

We specialise in the application of building science and technology and our chartered professionals are recognised as having specialist skills enabling us to manage the technical design process and use our technical knowledge and expertise to provide innovative solutions.

Ribble Valley Architecture are a Local Authority building control (LABC) partner and this enables us to have a one-to-one working relationship with the local authority.

The benefits to our clients include:

• A simplified, streamlined and fast track process generating substantial cost and time savings over the standard building control submission process.
• A dedicated professional building control surveyor becomes part of the design team while offering advice on all projects.
• The design team approach ensures that any issues can be resolved early in the design process and will eliminate the need for expensive corrections later in the construction phase.
• Excellent liaison with other services such as Fire and Environmental Health professionals.