The Building Control Alliance (BCA) is today launching a new website, designed to bring the building control community together.

The new website www.buildingcontrolalliance.org  allows members to communicate in a number of different ways.  The discussion page allows Building Control Surveyors to keep up to date with the current issues facing the industry, while the links to social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook provides an alternative way to remain in touch with present subjects and topics.

Launched in 2007, the BCA is an industry group aimed at setting and maintaining high standards in the building control industry whilst responding to Government proposals using a coordinated approach.  The BCA also provides a mediation service to resolve differences between Local Authorities and Approved Inspectors.

Diane Marshall, Chairman of BCA and Group Head of Building Control at NHBC, said: “We are delighted to be unveiling this new-look website. We hope it will offer a better level of engagement with our members and the wider building control community, and help us meet our goal of setting best practice across the industry.”

The founding bodies of the BCA are:
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
The Association of Building Engineers (ABE)
Local Authority Building Control (LABC), and
The Association of Consultant Approved Inspectors (ACA)

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