News - Building Standards
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19 March 2021
Building Warrant Fee Information Guide 2021
Following a biennial review, Building Standards will be introducing a refresh of our Building Warrant Fee Information guide from 1 April 2021.
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12 January 2021
Update to the Sustainability Label Generator
The current web service where users produce the Sustainability label (statement) to submit along with their Completion Certificate is being rebuilt. This is as a consequence of support for Adobe…
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18 November 2020
Building Standards as a Career
Building Standards lie at the core of building design and construction.
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3 September 2020
Building Standards – Verification Inspection services
Further to advice issued on 22 May 2020, regarding remote verification inspection procedures, we are now satisfied that COVID-19 restrictions have eased sufficiently to allow the resumption of site…
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30 June 2020
COVID-19 Guidance for Building Owners
Scottish Government have issued a guidance note designed to assist building owners considering COVID-19 adaptations to understand the application of building regulations to such works.
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29 May 2020
Remote Verification Inspections - Building Standards Inspection
By following Scottish Government guidance to help protect everyone from the spread of COVID-19 our on-site Building Standards service is presently suspended. However, to support the local…
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23 August 2019
Building Standards – Inspections (West)
I’m pleased to advise that David Atkinson has recently been appointed Building Standards Inspector covering our West Inspection Area.
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24 July 2019
Fire and Smoke Alarms – Factsheet
The Scottish Government have produced a factsheet advising homeowners what they need to know about changes in legislation relating to fire and smoke alarms coming into force in February 2021.
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27 May 2019
Scottish Government’s Building Standards Division awards
At the Local Authority Building Standards Scotland (LABSS) AGM held at Peebles Hydro, 17 May 2019, Orkney Islands Council were successful in the Building Standards Division (BSD) National Building…
