On receipt of the Commencement Notice, together with the notices of assignment of Builder and Assigned Certifier and their respective undertakings and the Design Certificate and accompanying plans and documentation the Building Control Authority will undertake a validation process on the documentation submitted.
\nThere is no requirement or obligation on the Building Control Authority to carry out a technical assessment of the plans or other documents submitted, \/ Separate to its administrative function of maintaining the Register, Building Control Authorities have strong powers of inspection and enforcement under the Building Control Acts. They should exercise these powers based on the combination of risk-based assessment and random selection.<\/p>\n
The purpose of the lodgement of plans, mandatory inspection by registered professionals, statutory certificates of compliance and registration of certificates and accompanying documentation is to ensure a strong culture of compliance with the Building Regulations, and greater accountability and transparency in the process.
\nFrom the Building Control Authority\u2019s perspective, any plans and documentation lodged will be readily available should the particular project be selected for a building control inspection.<\/p>\n
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2014 Rules The new building control regulations apply to works commenced after March 2014.\u00a0 The building owner must appoint a design certifier, an assigned certifier and a competent builder.\u00a0 A design certifier and assigned certifier must be either a registered architect, chartered engineer or chartered building surveyor. The functions are now added to the scope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28747"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29148,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28747\/revisions\/29148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}