Building Regulations

The following links will take you to Government websites for Building Regulations:

• England & Wales
  http://www.communities.gov.uk
• Scotland
  http://www.scotland.gov.uk/build_regs/standards/
• Northern Ireland
  http://www2.dfpni.gov.uk/buildingregulations/
• Robust Details (Part E - England & Wales)
  http://www.robustdetails.com/

Robust details offer an alternative to the pre-completion sound testing now required by the Building Regulations.

• This * technical guidance note outlines NHBC's interpretation of the disproportionate collapse Requirement A3 of the Building (Amendment) Regulations 2004, as detailed in the 2004 edition of Approved Document A (England & Wales).

* updated document of 29 November 2005