...Kenneth Palmer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the legal liability of local authorities in New Zealand for the issue of building consents and inspection, in respect of domestic homes where the property proves to be faulty. A local authority may be liable for economic loss. The duty...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 --> Buildings Control systems European Union Article Type: 2011 Awards for Excellence From: International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Volume 4, Issue 1 The following article was selected for this year’s...

... sufficient protection to individuals. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Buildings Ethics The term “ethics” broadly describes the way in which we look at and understand life, in terms of good and bad or right and wrong. Ethics is also defined as the moral principles by which...

...João Branco Pedro; Frits Meijer; Henk Visscher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the tasks and responsibilities of public and private parties in the building control systems of the 27 European Union (EU) countries. Design/methodology/approach To gather the necessary information...

...Jeroen van der Heijden Purpose The paper aims to document the effects of the privatisation of building code enforcement regimes. It notes that privatisation is generally accompanied by trade‐offs between competing democratic values such as effectiveness, efficiency, accountability, and equity...

...Yung Yau Purpose The responsibility for ensuring the safety and standard of building works in Hong Kong has long rested with the government. In 2003, the government proposed a new control regime to streamline the process of building proposal approval by allowing private‐sector practitioners...

...João Branco Pedro; Frits Meijer; Henk Visscher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical review of the building regulations and the building control system in Portugal. The organisation, content, and authorities responsible for building regulations are described and an overview...

.... Findings The paper shows how the UK, Malta and possibly Ireland have attempted to take a path of amicable cooperation and negotiation to establish the principle of “reasonable” adjustments to improve access to new and old buildings, whereas France and the USA have tended to adopt a prescriptive course...

...Jeroen van der Heijden Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce a tool for the international comparative analysis of regulatory regimes in the field of building regulation. Design/methodology/approach On the basis of a heuristic model drawn from regulatory literature, a typology...