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  • Features

    Panic over

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Manufacturers are confident that the new Part L will not spell the end for brick-and-block construction. Here's how they and their timber-frame producing rivals are gearing up for the change

  • Features

    Noises off

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The DETR's revisions to the acoustic regulations are set to cost the industry £75m a year. Here's how they would work, and overleaf, how materials firms and housebuilders are reacting to the proposals

  • Paul Everall
    Features

    Why Regulations matter

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Paul Everall, the DETR's head of Building Regulations, explains why and how the government reviews its rules

  • Features

    Turn that down!

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilders and manufacturers are less than delighted with the beefed-up Part E. But will the proposals really hurt their businesses?

  • Features

    No change there

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Not all the Building Regulations are being rewritten. This is the essential guide to the rest of the rules that govern the way we build

  • News

    Building Regulations

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The A-N guide to the great building rules shake-up

  • Features

    No more blockages

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Confusions over the existing document and the rise of recycling have led the DETR to review the drainage regs. This is what the new Part H says

  • Features

    How building owners and service providers can avoid writs

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    From 1 October 2004, when part three of the Disability Discrimination Act comes into force, it will be necessary to remove physical barriers that prevent disabled people from using a service

  • Features

    Coming up for air

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The DETR cannot consider reviewing the ventilation regulations until the new Part L is ready. When it does come up, here's what the department should be looking at

  • Features

    No more hot air

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Everyone's talking about Part L, but what do the changes really mean? Find out how the proposed energy regulations will affect you and what the industry has to say about them

  • Features

    Storms ahead

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The £1bn of damage caused by last year's storms, and a research report predicting worse to come, has forced the DETR to look again at the structural part of the Building Regulations

  • Features

    Access all areas?

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    Designers and their clients might think all they have to do to make a building accessible is comply with Part M. The Disability Discrimination Act has different ideas …

  • Features

    No smoke …

    2001-03-09T00:00:00Z

    The 1998 concrete flue liners scandal led to a delay of the Part J review. Now it's back, with measures designed to improve the safety of chimneys and heat-producing appliances