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Latest items added to BSRIA Library catalogue - available for loan:

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  - Construction's next steps to net zero (2021)
  - A report on a discussion with invited industry experts on practical approaches to enabling net zero construction, measuring carbon reduction and imposing accountability
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  - LPC Rules for automatic sprinkler installations 2015 incorporating BS EN 12845 (updated 2020) (2020)
  - This new version of the LPC Sprinkler rules, which was updated in 2020, incorporates the revised specification BS EN 12845:2015
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  - Safety rules for the construction and installation of lifts. Lifts for the transport of persons and goods. Passenger and goods passenger lifts (2020)
  - Part of a multi-series available in BSRIA library, this document specifies the safety rules for permanently installed new passenger or goods passenger lifts, with traction, positive or hydraulic drive, serving defined landing levels, having a car designed for the transportation of persons or persons and goods, suspended by ropes or chains or jacks and moving between guide rails inclined not more than 15° to the vertical.
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  - Water quality. Water safety plans. Code of practice (2020)
  - It’s often thought water systems in buildings are safe when connected to public supplies – but this ignores the potential for contamination (both chemical and microbial) and the growth of waterborne opportunistic pathogens within building water systems. BS 8680:2020 sets out guidance and recommendations for developing a Water Safety Plan (WSP) for building water systems.

Legislation and News Tracker - June 2021.

This is a free monthly BSRIA news service monitors selected regulatory, guidance and related news in construction, building design and building services.

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