Guides

These guides have been specifically written and designed as easy-to-use reference handbooks to understanding, and complying with, the provisions outlined in the new Approved Documents.

Written and presented in an uncluttered, user-friendly style, the layout of the guides allows for essential facts to be assimilated quickly through a series of rules of thumb, illustrations, flowcharts, and watchpoints. Plus, each guide has an extensive list of appendices for further information/guidance.

Designed to allow the busy construction professional to grasp complex provisions efficiently and effectively, these fully referenced guides will be a welcome companion for architects, construction professionals and building control officers alike.

Guide to Part B

Guide to Part B will help architects and other construction professionals to achieve compliance with the new Approved Document B. Now published in two volumes, to cover domestic buildings (Volume 1) and non-domestic ones (Volume 2). They contain important alterations to the safeguarding of escape routes and significantly reduce the need to provide self closing doors within dwellings. Guidance is introduced on the provision of refuges and generally offers a broader range of solutions with greater emphasis on the role of sprinkler protection systems. Volume 2 clarifies the legal responsibility for the design team to identify and provide detailed information to the management, of non-domestic buildings, on the maintenance and operation of fire safety equipment and systems, taking into account the implications of the important Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 that came into force in October 2006.

html: 1st Edition, July 2007

pdf: 1st Edition, July 2007

book: 1st Edition, July 2007 (166 pages; code: 60834; Price: £27.50)

Guide to Part F

Guide to Part F provides professional advice and guidance about how to comply with the new provisions which include dealing with lower air permeability in buildings as a consequence of the new Part L and which have adopted a largely performance-based approach to ventilation.

pdf: 2nd Edition, September 2010

book: 2nd Edition, September 2010 (A4; 64 pages; code: 72385; Price: £25.00)

html: 1st Edition, July 2006

pdf: 1st Edition, July 2006

Guide to Part G

Guide to Part G gives professional advice on how to comply with the new requirements for water efficiency, hot water supply, and sanitary conveniences. This guide is referenced fully allowing you to grasp the provisions of Part G efficiently and effectively.

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pdf:1st Edition, June 2010

book:1st Edition, June 2010 (A4; 104 pages; code: 57271; Price: £25.00)

Guide to Part J

Guide to Part J provides examples of the typical installations a designer is likely to encounter, as well as explaining the concepts that can be applied in more esoteric situations. The authors, collectively, have many years of experience in the industry and the guide will provide essential hints and tips, over and beyond what can be found in the Approved Document.

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pdf: 1st Edition, September 2010

book 1st Edition, September 2010 (A4; 80 pages; code: 72386; Price: £25.00)

Guide to Part L

Guide to Part L provides professional advice and guidance about how to comply with the demanding new energy conservation requirements of the Building Regulations. It explains how to calculate TER, DER/BER, SAP, SBEM, U-values, and luminaire-lumens/ circuit-Watt.

pdf: 2nd Edition, September 2010

book: 2nd Edition, September 2010 (A4; 144 pages; code: 72387; Price: £35.00)

html: 2nd Edition, September 2010

html: 1st Edition, July 2006

pdf: 1st Edition, July 2006
Associated Documents

The new edition of Part L makes reference to a number of secondary documents which are issued by DCLG and published by NBS. These are:

Domestic Building Services Compliance Guide

This guide provides detailed guidance for persons installing fixed building services in new and existing dwellings to help them comply with building regulations. It covers work on both new systems and replacement systems, identifying the differing requirements where these exist. This edition of the guide covers conventional means of providing primary and secondary pace heating, domestic hot water, mechanical ventilation, comfort cooling and internal and external lighting. In addition, it covers low carbon generation of heat by heat pumps, solar thermal panels and micro-combined heat and power systems.

html: 1st Edition, June 2010

pdf: 1st Edition, June 2010

book: 1st Edition, June 2010 (A4; 128 pages; code 72347; Price: £16.00)

Domestic Heating Compliance Guide

This booklet provides guidance on the means of complying with the requirements of Part L for conventional space heating systems and hot water systems in dwellings. It comprises four self-contained fuel-based sections, each of which addresses all the requirements applicable to primary and secondary space heating and hot water technologies for gas-fired, oil-fired, electric and solid-fuel systems, and five specialist technology-specific sections which provide further guidance on the minimum provisions for specialised space heating and hot water technologies (community heating; underfloor heating; heat pumps; solar water heating; and micro-CHP units).

html: 2nd Edition, December 2008

pdf: 2nd Edition, December 2008

pdf: The December 2007 Corrigenda, 1st Edition, May 2006

pdf: 1st Edition, May 2006

book: 2nd Edition, December 2008 (A4; 72 pages; code 67342; Price: £20.00)

Low or Zero Carbon Energy Sources: Strategic Guide

This strategic guide provides sufficient information to decide if a particular LZC energy source is appropriate for the building under consideration and to estimate the potential for carbon dioxide emissions reduction. The guide comprises an introduction to LZC energy sources; a set of calculation methods to enable the carbon dioxide emissions reduction potential of individual LZC energy sources to be calculated in domestic and non-domestic building applications; and outlines guidance on key issues for certain LZC energy sources where this is lacking in current literature.

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Non Domestic Heating, Cooling and Ventilation Compliance Guide

This booklet provides guidance on the means of complying with the requirements of Part L for conventional space heating systems, hot water systems, cooling and ventilation systems in non-domestic buildings. Its sets out the minimum provisions for efficiency of the plant that generates heat, hot water or cooling; controls to ensure that the system is not generating heat, hot water or cooling unnecessarily or excessively; other factors affecting the safety or energy efficiency of the system; insulation of pipes and ducts serving space heating, hot water and cooling systems; and acceptable specific fan power ratings for fans serving air distribution systems.

html , pdf , book (A4; 64 pages; code: 57646; Price: £15.00)
Complete Reference Set

The complete set of Approved Documents to the Building Regulations, supplied in two ring binders for ease of reference, containing the three new Parts F, L and P, the existing Approved Documents and the associated documents (Approved Document J: Guidance and Supplementary Information of European Standards for Chimneys and Flues; Approved Document to Support Reg. 7 – Materials and Workmanship; and Building Regulations and Fire Safety: Procedural Guidance) is available priced £195.00.

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NBS Shortcuts

Shortcuts provide an eclectic mix of at-a-glance guides to the minefield of regulations, new materials, and technologies that confront building designers today. Comprising hand-drawn sketches, technical drawings, and punchy articles, Shortcuts present a wealth of invaluable information in an accessible and lively way.

Shortcuts: Book 1 focuses on issues to do with the structure and fabric of buildings.

Shortcuts: Book 2 explores the issues that affect the way building designers work, with topics grouped into chapters on Energy Conservation; Sustainability; Working Practices; Health and Safety; and Legislation and Guidance.