National House Building Council
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| Type | Checking standards of 19,500 registered house builders |
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| Industry | House Building |
| Founded | 1936 |
| Headquarters | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Key people | Sir John Carter (Chairman), Isabel Hudson (Executive Chairman) Directors: Stewart Baseley, Ian Davis, Peter Foster, Sir John Harman, Malcolm Harris, Sir Graham Hart, Tim Hough, Sandra Kelly, Dame Yvonne Moores DBE, Robin Nicholson CBE, Dr David Smith OBE, Richard Tamayo, Richard Werth |
| Revenue |  £28,661,000 GBP (2005) |
| Employees | 1,000 staff including inspectors and 80 Members of the Council |
| Website | www.nhbc.co.uk |
The National House Building Council (NHBC) was originally set up as the National House Builders Registration Council (NHBRC) in the United Kingdom in 1936. The name changed in 1973.[citation needed]
As a Registered Housebuilder under the voluntary scheme, houses were inspected during building, buyers were covered by a 2 year warranty against major defects, and against the insolvency of the builder. By 1963, 26% of all housing was built by Registered Housebuilders.
In 1964 and 1965 changes were introduced, including the extension of the warranty to 10 years.[citation needed]
1967 saw the upgrading of the NHBRC's standards, particularly in the provision of power outlets, kitchen design and space heating, drawing on the recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee. By the end of 1970, 92% of new homes were built by NHBRC members.[citation needed]
Under the Building Act 1984 the NHBC set up a subsidiary company (NHBC Building Control Services Ltd) to become an approved inspector for verifying that buildings were built in accordance to the UK's national building regulations.[citation needed]
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New builds
On new builds the NHBC inspector carries out a series of "Key stage" inspections. This is to ensure the properties are built to the standards of both the NHBC and the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). The key stage are Foundations, drainage, superstructure i.e. brickwork etc. pre-plaster and pre-handover to the customer. There is an additional inspection on apartments/flats of the roof construction.[citation needed]
In addition to the building control of home construction and the warranty for home-owners, NHBC also has services to its builder members, such as health and safety, training, sustainability (such as Energy Performance Certificates, EcoHomes and the Code for Sustainable Homes), and acoustic and air-leakage testing.
Awards
NHBC Pride in the Job competition has been running for 32 years to date and looks to award site managers that are registered to the NHBC Warranty. The award recognises individual site managers and not companies. Every individual eligible site manager is entered into the competition on an annual basis with the judging starting in July.
Judging is carried out by NHBC Inspection Staff and Regional Directors throughout the following 18 months, so that a full assessment is carried out on the site managers work of extended periods.
The pride in the job competition is assessed based on 38 site activities which are scored to ensure all sites are equally judge to the same criteria. Regional and Supreme Award winners are judged by an independent panel of industry experts who are autonomous to NHBC.
The competition is divided into four stages, culminating in the Supreme Awards presented at a gala ceremony. The stages are as follows: Stage 1 - Quality Awards, Stage 2 - Seal of excellence awards, Stage 3 - Regional Awards, Stage 4 - Supreme Awards
A Pride in the Job award is a fantastic credit to the individual site manager, as well as to the homes that have been built. The particular manager will be selected for their category from almost 13,000 site managers across the UK to win a quality award. This award provides a number of benefits to the individual winners and to the companies that they work for. The quality award can be recognised as a great way of showing potential new homebuyers of the contribution to the creation of new quality home.
Criticism
The NHBC was criticised on a 2010 edition of the BBC consumer television programme Watchdog for failing to repair homes due to incorrect surveying of problem properties by relevant professionals, and thus failing to either compensate owners financially or fix any problems promptly, for new build properties under their warranty.[1]
See also
References
- ^ NHBC - customers not thrilled with their build..., reference date 28 September 2010
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