Established in 1936, NHBC is the UK's largest provider of new home warranties.

NHBC is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

The inspection process is not designed to check every detail of the build but if NHBC is satisfied with the overall build quality they will issue the warranty for the new home / premises.

Buildmark, the NHBC warranty for private housing is split into 2 parts.

In the first 2 years, the builder is responsible for fixing any defects caused by its failure to build to NHBC Technical Standards.

From the start of the third year until the home is 10 years old, NHBC is responsible for putting right defects to the structural and weather-proofing parts of the home caused by breaches of its Technical Standards.

All site managers running a building site that is registered for NHBC Warranty are automatically entered into the competition.

Each year, NHBC also invites entries into 3 Special award categories such as Best Occupational Health Initiative, Best Worker Engagement Programme and Best Health and Safety Leadership.

The area also contains the head office of the National House Building Council ( NHBC ) and a testing laboratory set up by the Consumers ' Association but now owned by Intertek, as well as lawyers, graphic design companies and warehousing.

In 1985, under the Building Act 1984, NHBC set up a subsidiary company ( NHBC Building Control Services Ltd ) and became the first private sector building control body licensed as an Approved Inspector for the purpose of verifying that buildings are built in accordance with the building regulations across England and Wales.

NHBC offers warranties for newly built or converted private housing, affordable housing, self-build homes and commercial premises located on mixed use housing schemes.

The NHBC Health and Safety Awards were launched in 2010 and are the only health and safety awards exclusively for house builders.

NHBC was a founder member of The Consumer Code for Home Builders which gives added protection and rights to the buyers of brand new homes.

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.

NHBC apologised to the families featured in the Watchdog programme for any mistakes that were made during the handling of their claims.

Builders and developers who sell properties with NHBC warranties must adhere to NHBC's strict standards of construction contained in the NHBC Technical Standards in addition to complying with Building Regulations in the UK.

NHBC offers a range of additional services to help builders comply with Building Regulations, Health and Safety legislation and other construction rules.

Judging takes place over an 18 month period by NHBC Building Inspectors with the Regional and Supreme winners in each category being judged by independent experts as well as NHBC Regional Directors.

The NHBC Foundation was established in 2006 as a partnership between NHBC and the Building Research Establishment ( BRE Trust ).

New houses in the UK may be covered by a NHBC guarantee but some people feel that it would be more useful to put new houses on the same legal footing as other products.

NHBC ( National House-Building Council ) states its primary purpose as raising the construction standards of new homes in the UK to protect homeowners.

Around 80 % of new homes built in the UK each year have an NHBC 10-year warranty.

NHBC inspectors visit building sites at key stages to check compliance with its Technical Standards.

If the builder fails to do this or has gone out of business, NHBC will take responsibility to fix the defect.

NHBC compiles and distributes statistics and analysis about the UK housing market that are used by Government and financial institutions, as well as homebuilders.

Examples are the Housing Market Report and the NHBC Quarterly Statistics.

NHBC runs two national awards programmes: Pride in the Job and the NHBC Health and Safety Awards.

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Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

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In addition to the authentication and acknowledgment procedures which precede and follow the sending of the go messages, again in special codes, each message also contains an `` internal authenticator '', another specific signal to convince the recipient that he is getting the real thing.

He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

The test of form is fidelity to the experience, a gauge also accepted by the abstract expressionist painters.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

It is because there is not only darkness but also light that our situation becomes inexplicable.

but there is also compassion.

also he is a drunk, and has lost his job on that account.

And if I have gone into so much detail about so small a work, that is because it is also so typical a work, representing the germinal form of a conflict which remains essential in Mann's writing: the crude sketch of Piepsam contains, in its critical, destructive and self-destructive tendencies, much that is enlarged and illuminated in the figures of, for instance, Naphta and Leverkuhn.

By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.

it is true that they are also extremely dull.

Now the detective must save his own skin by informing on the girl he loves, who is also the real murderer.

But it is also the climax to one of the absorbing chapters in our current political history.

Since a civilizational crisis involves also a crisis in private interests and in the ruling class, reaction is normally found among those who feel themselves to be among the ruling class.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

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