Weekly News Summary June 16, 2003
A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the House Building Industry, from Pierre Williams
Part E - RSD Update
HBF has now submitted a first colour/bound draft of the RSD document to ODPM for circulation to BRAC Members.
Building Regulations Part Q - Broadband
The Government is seeking views on whether Building Regulations can have a role to play in the wider promotion of broadband and ‘intelligent’ telecommunication…
HBF’s Energy Labelling Scheme
HBF has sought to ‘re-launch’ its energy labelling scheme, prompted by (1) the report (NHER/Nottingham University) published showing low (2%) take-up by the ho…
Millennium Community Standards
Recent meetings between HBF and English Partnerships have revealed EP's intention to apply technical standards to new 'Millenium Community' developments in exc…
Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDS)
An increasing number of Local Planning Authorities are seeking to incorporate SuDS into new developments.
ODPM Report on PPG3 and Highways
It is anticipated that the Report will now be published in July 2003. ODPM has conveyed to the Federation that the delay of publication is to enable them to l…
Sewers for Adoption 5th Edition
The review meeting on 6th March 2003 mainly focussed on the Addendums, which were scheduled to be published at the end of May.
Technical update - June 2003
Keep yourself up to date with National technical issues, such as the Part E RSD project, the review of Part L1 of the Building Regulations, the SUDS consultati…
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