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Weekly News Summary June 16, 2003

A weekly news summary covering all aspects of the House Building Industry, from Pierre Williams

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…

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.