45 years in building control: A personal perspective

45 years in building control: A personal perspective

Trevor Clements reflects on his long career in building control and where the profession stands in an ever-changing legislative and regulatory environment At the risk of enhancing my reputation as an old fossil among colleagues, I start this article with the phrase “back in the day”. I am referring to when I had my first experience of the Building Control profession, joining a local authority in 1979 as a very green trainee just out of his schoo…