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Information about NHBC
Information for new home owners
- Buildmark warranty document (pdf)
- Buying a new home (pdf)
- A guide to your new home (pdf)
- A guide to your new home for social housing (pdf)
- A guide to the CML initiative (pdf)
- NHBC's Customer Charter (pdf)
Enquiries and claims information
- Guidance notes - Disputes and resolution (pdf)
- Guidance notes - Builder insolvency (pdf)
- Guidance notes - Alterations and extensions (pdf)
- Guidance notes - Claims in years three to ten (pdf)
- Claims Charter (pdf)
Information for self-builders
- A guide to Solo warranty (pdf)
- Solo warranty document (pdf)
- Solo application form (pdf)
- Building control for self-builders (pdf)
- NHBC guide to renewable energy - May 2007 (3.5mb pdf)
Voluntary code of conduct for house builders
Research Publications by NHBC Foundation:
To date the Foundation has published ten research documents:
- NF1 - "A Guide to Modern Methods of Construction"
- NF2 - "Conserving Energy and Water, and Minimising Waste"
- NF3 - "Climate change and innovation in house-building"
- NF4 - "Risks in domestic basement construction"
- NF5 - "Ground Source Heat Pumps"
- NF6 - "Modern Housing"
- NF7 - "A Review of Microgeneration and Renewable Energy Technologies"
- NF8 - "Site Waste Management"
- NF9 - "Zero carbon: what does it mean to homeowners and housebuilders?"
- NF10 - "Learning the lessons from systemic building failures"
Copies of the Foundation's publications can be found at http://www.nhbcfoundation.org/Projects/tabid/54/Default.aspx
