Publications
The Scottish Building Standards Hub (SBSH) produces information and guidance supporting the building standards system and delivery model.
This page allows you to find SBSH publications which are aimed at local authority building standards practitioners, designers, the public and users of the system.
Guidance produced includes topics where clarity and consistency is required with respect to the meaning behind particular standards and/or procedures, in areas where disputes have arisen and national clarity is required, and also to provide best practice guidance.
Information Papers and Guidance
Information papers are a Local Authority Building Standards Scotland (LABSS) product, whereby the administration, management, technical content, and paper publication process is entirely carried out by the Scottish Building Standards Hub (SBSH). To ensure content is consistent with local authority practice, peer review is sought through LABSS Consortium Technical Working Group (CTWG) prior to publication.
The SBSH also produces a variety of guidance in their own right, which is aimed at assisting local authority building standards practitioners and users of the building standards system.
LABSS CTWG is consulted on matters relating to published information and guidance where they involve an alternative approach to guidance or could be contentious in nature.
Newsletters
The Scottish Building Standards Hub routinely produce and publicise newsletters.
These publications predominantly feature technical service focused content with learning and development activity also being a strong feature, but can also contain other relevant SBSH business and transformational activity.
They are an additional way to reach out to local authority building standards teams and wider stakeholders in a more concise manner, informing readers about national outcomes and SBSH activity.
LABSS members receive notifications when each newsletter becomes available. If you are a building standards customers or stakeholders and wish to receive a copy of future publications via email, please subscribe by submitting a request to: sbsh@fife.gov.uk
Dispute Resolution Process
The Dispute Resolution Process (DRP) is a customer complaint mechanism that is embedded in the Performance Framework under which all local authority building standards services must act. The DRP is a facility open to an applicant where they disagree with a technical, procedural or regulatory interpretation that a local authority verifier is adopting in the consideration of a building warrant submission, building project or proposed development through a preliminary enquiry.
Further details on how to use the Dispute Resolution Process can be found under Building Standards System Services on our Technical Page.
The SBSH publishes the outcomes from Dispute Resolution Cases for Verifier reference and to highlight past decisions. These outcomes are only available to registered local authority building standards practitioners.
Resource Library
All Scottish Building Standards Hub (SBSH) publications are contained within our resource library. The library also contains information and guidance from external sources that will aid you, either as a building standards practitioner or user of the building standards system. The link below provides access to our resource library.