On the upper floor there was damp and a set of stairs which contravened building regulations.
There is currently no requirement under building regulations to provide sprinkler systems in new residential premises.
Even in states like Texas, where building regulations are minimal, that process takes two years.
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The AECB estimates that the true CO2 saving from government building regulations is more like 10%.
When a sculpture becomes subject to building regulations, with elevators, stairs and washrooms, its purity is lost.
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The inquest was also told a surveyor was not familiar with building regulations which relate to fire spreading.
Were there not building regulations requiring them to be built to withstand tremors?
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One problem acknowledged by the government is the difficulty of enforcing building regulations.
The final phase of refurbishment is nearing completion and Dios says it complies with the same building regulations required for a house.
The absence of a functioning government means there are no building regulations.
The loft insulation clearly failed building regulations but the house had been passed by Angus Council and the House Building guarantors the NHBC.
Wouldn't it be easier for the Scottish Executive to toughen Scotland's building regulations so that completion certificates depended on passing air tightness tests?
The very latest news from the executive is good - new building regulations released in the last few days will improve what's expected of new homes.
Shadow education minister Vernon Coaker accused ministers of changing design requirements and building regulations in order to see as many of the schools built as quickly as possible.
The surveyor said Southwark Council - the landlord - did not instruct him to make sure the refit met building regulations and that he would normally have acted on their behalf.
On Tuesday , the Commons meets at 11.30am for justice questions and then there's a ten minute rule bill from the Conservative Stephen Mosley on Building Regulations (External Retaining and Load-bearing Walls).
The board is staffed by professional urban planners, representatives of the nature reserves authority and other statutory bodies who convene to determine whether building schemes comport with law and building regulations or not.
An avalanche of announcements emerged from government on Thursday, from the number of people subject to control orders to cuts to coastguard services and the, perhaps less thrilling, update on possible changes to building regulations.
"There was a proposal about seven or eight years ago for the building regulations to have a presumption against air conditioning in the UK and the industry fought against that and the industry won, " he says.
The properties posing the most promise among safe-haven investors: highly unique, irreplaceable structures (whether due to construction costs or building regulations) on coveted swaths of land in desirable internationally recognized locales like New York, Miami, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
In a developing country like Turkey, where stringent building regulations exist but are seldom applied, and where governments have more pressing tasks than the organisation of earthquake drills, a natural disaster on this scale will unfortunately almost always kill many people.
During questions from the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee, Mr Boles said this would not remove the need for complying with building regulations and the rule that no more than half of a garden can be used for an extension.
The company this morning said that the Public Prosecutor of Brindisi, Italy has brought charges against certain officers of Global Solar Fund subsidiaries alleging that they have failed to comply with the necessary permitting process and building regulations for 12.7MW of PV plants in Italy.
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Vaitsos and his partners became consumed with finding new ways to sculpt the terrain and integrate the architecture into it, an obsession that even led to a modification in Greek building regulations, which were recently overhauled with an eye to conservation and sustainability: The government now awards bonuses to developers who top their buildings with earth.
Those maps will be used to set premium rates for flood insurance and play a role in building codes and other regulations.
Hospitals must comply with numerous building codes and procedural regulations but, again, aren't reimbursed by the government agencies that impose them, so the costs get passed on to patients.
Plans included modernizing equipment, increasing the number of fire stations in industrial areas and overhauling fire- and building-safety laws and regulations, inspections and worker training.
The disaster, caused by an earthquake and resulting tsunami in March, led many countries to postpone building nuclear power until new regulations on safety were put in place.
Nearly all historic efforts to reduce building energy use have focused on either human factors (change behaviors with tax incentives or regulations) or hardware (use better building materials, improve systems like the cooling and lights, etc.).
If agencies like the SEC, the Comptroller of the Currency, the FTC and the Fed could not keep this massive bubble from building then bursting, will the new regulations do it?
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