Sunday 29 November 2009

The RIBA/RIAS Must Take Building Control To Task

Are we the only Architects who feel that the Scottish Building Control Regulations are just too onerous? We have just been asked to provide a 1:5 detail of an intumescent collar in a garage roof!

We are constantly finding that the Building Control Regulations are more and more demanding with reference to the information that they can ask for. We have no issue whatsoever with issuing a full set of Construction Drawings to Building Control but this is outwith the 'Plan of Work'. Surely the RIBA and RIAS should remind the SBSA that Architects have a Stages of Work Plan (RIAS/RIBA Stages A-K). Our whole industry apparently conforms to this but not Planning & Building Control.

We think it is about high time that the RIBA/RIAS get more involved when the SBSA is writing policy or frankly the RIBA/RIAS may soon realise that it is Planning and Building Control who are calling the shots. It certainly seems close to this right now!

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