Provides the approved documents for England and Wales, published by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Provides the approved documents for Scotland.

Provides the Building Regulations for Northern Ireland published by the Building Regulations Unit of the Department of Finance and Personnel of Northern Ireland.

Provides information on building standards for the Republic of Ireland published by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government.

Association of British Insurers (2003), Technical Briefing: Fire performance of sandwich panel systems, can be purchased from this website

For a more comprehensive fire engineering service covering the whole building, please contact Corus Fire Engineering Consultancy.

Provides details on factory mutual approval

Provides details on LPBC approval

The Environmental Protection Act (1990) deals with noise regarded as a statutory nuisance and may affect the encasement of very noisy processes.

By following this link, you will find a range of free leaflets to download from the HSE website on the topic of noise in the workplace.

The site provides the information based on a number of different building types which use long span steel frames as the main structure and are clad using profiled, pre-finished steel cladding systems.  

BREbookshop.com brings you easy one-stop access to the information providers in the built environment sector.

The CIBSE on-line bookshop contains not only more than 80 CIBSE publications for building services professionals, but many other books from respected publishers.