Guide to Part L

BPG/BRE

July 2006
Code: 57270
ISBN: 185946 199 9
978 1 85946 199 0
56 pp
Paperback
£32.50

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The new Part L is very different from its predecessor. It expands the scope of work covered, particularly in existing buildings, and calls for more testing to demonstrate that design intentions have been carried through into the final build and certification that services have been properly commissioned. More importantly, it adopts a fundamentally different and complex approach to compliance based on the calculation of the CO² emissions of the building at both the design stage and on completion of the building.

Comprehensive in its coverage, Guide to Part L provides a logical, straightforward explanation of the steps needed to ensure compliance. It highlights essential points and includes invaluable process flowcharts which are supported by extensive appendices that give further information about almost every issue affecting compliance. To be read in conjunction with Part L, it explains which of the four parts of the Approved Document is to be used for different kinds of work. It also provides brief synopses of both the second- and third-tier documents referred to in Part L and others that are central to good practice.