building control officer

Our design company is doing building regs full plans drawings. Once approved by BC how closely to these plans does the builder need to stick? Can materials or the build be altered at build time (presumably with approval of the approved inspector) - or is this something that the inspectors would...

I email the building control company prior to doing some work, giving them bullet points of what I'm going to do and for them to give me a heads up if they're going to want to see something in particular, and whether I'm doing it correctly. But they refuse to be helpful in any way. All they...

Is it building control's responsibility to check that the builder builds to the structural engineer’s design and specification?

Hi, I am in process of replacing my existing flat roof with new flat roof (re-roofing). I need to apply for building control inspection with my LA (I belive its for compliance for energy efficiency etc or something similar). It comes under minor work with building control notice form. How...

We recently started our loft conversion in a terraced house. The contractor followed the plans based on a calculation that was provided by a structural engineer. The work progressed to a level that three steam beams were put in place and by this time we heard back from the council building...

The spec for our extension states "All cavities to be closed with Termabate or similar" and the builder tried to tell us that the Celotex he used (see photo) was good enough. We argued quite a bit over whether he is following the spec, and he tried to tell us the old this is how it used to be...

Good morning. For my loft conversion the structural engineer designed PFC steels to carry the new load of the 9" X 2" C24 floor joists. The building control officer stated that I could have also used universal beams instead, because "it would have cost a lot less in steel". Is this an accurate...