The Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA) has once again struck at the foundations of urban planning and the general public’s interest in Karachi. Ironically, these are the very two tenets the SBCA ...

• Schools, recreational centres, restaurants, clinics, etc, can be operated in houses following changes to Karachi Building and Town Planning Regulations • Land reserved for education and health ...

Reflecting on my career, I began in Local Authority Building Control (LABC) just as the market was about to undergo lasting change. In 1985, NHBC became the first Approved Inspector under the Building ...

The Building Control Independent Panel (BCIP) has made its first public statement, which highlighted that commercial bodies are returning building control work to councils in “unreasonable ...

Private sector building control firms will struggle to take over the vast majority of projects from collapsed firm Assent, meaning they will transfer to council building control departments, according ...