The Building Industry Consultative Council (BICC)

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The Building Industry Consultative Council (BICC) is an advisory group established by Government under the auspice of the Ministry for Resources and Rural Affaires. It is made up of representatives from client and employer groups, trade unions, individual employers and government with the objective of promoting an environment that will enhance the standards of the industry in Malta.

The BICC aims to promote cultural change and best practice in the local building construction industry. It does this through a cooperative and collaborative approach.

Organigram

Documents

•          Council Meetings Minutes & Agendas

•          Correspondence

•          Reports

Publications

• Construction Site Management - Health & Safety Guidlines
• Structural Design & Construction
• Assessment of Shear Capacity of Pre-stressed Hollow Core Floor Units in the Local Construction Industry
• Cements
• Construction Details
• Durability and Quality Control
• Geotechnics for the Structural Engineer
• Hollow core Prestressed Concrete Slabs
• Introduction – Theory of Engineering Aesthetic Design by DH Camilleri
• Introduction to Structural Materials & Methods By DH Camilleri
• Kors qasir ghal min jahdem fil-Konkos
• Lifts without Headroom/Pit by MSA
• Local Precast Construction under Earthquake Loading
• Masonry Codes and Stability
• Masonry Design Incorporating Compressive Stresses by DH Camilleri
• Optimal Design of a Reinforced Concrete Frame
• Punching Shear in Pad Foundations on Rock
• Retaining Walls
• Re-thinking Engineering
• Structural and Design Standards and Methodologies
• Structural design to Superstructure terraced Apartments
• Structural Engineering Tables
• The 3 Principles of Structural Design for Structural Detailing by DH Camilleri
• Archived Reports
• Building Materials & Services
• BICC Books
• Energy Efficiency of Buildings
• Built Environment
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Applications

Applications can be made directly through the Freedom of Information Portal (www.foi.gov.mt )  making use own E-ID.   Alternatively, Application Forms can be downloaded from same Website. 

Hard copies of Application forms can be retrieved from the Main Reception Desk at the address  below

during opening hours indicated below:

                            Winter (1 Oct. to 15 June):                                       07:30 - 15:30 hrs

                            Summer (16 June to 30 September):                  07:30 - 13:00 hrs

Duly filled requests can either be submitted through e-mail (www.foi.gov.mt), or can also be submitted by hand or through the mail addressed to.

A reply to a request for information will be issued and sent to the applicant by mail (or through email if request is so lodged) within a day from the receipt of submission.  Requests submitted during non-working days will be considered to have been lodged on the first working day that follows submission. 

Where a request is entertained according to the provisions at law (Act 496) and payments are due to be made as per LN 158/2010, such payments are to be deposited at the same address and times indicated above.