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Level 2A Flashcards

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What do you understand about Law in relation to Building Control?

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The main function of Building Control is to ensure all buildings comply with the UK Legislation.

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What is the primary legislation for Building Control?

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The Building Act 84’

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What is the secondary legislation for Building Control?

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The Building Regulations
The Approved Inspectors Regulations
The Building (Restricted Activities and Functions) Regulations

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What do you know about the restricted activities and functions regulations? Give examples of restricted activities and functions)

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The restricted activities and functions regulations essentially states the functions of the Local Authority, HRB regulator and Approved Inspectors.

Sending inital notices, plans certificates, final certificates, amendment notices to the local authority
Sending a cancellation notice
Plan checking
Carrying out site inspections at the relevant stages

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Give examples of restricted activities and functions for local authority

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determining an application for building control approval (full plans applications, building notice, regularisation)

giving a stop notice under section 35C of the 1984 Act (stop notices);

giving a section 36 notice(11) or deciding to pull down or remove work or effect alterations in it as deemed necessary under section 36(3) of the 1984 Act;

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Does the HRB regulator have the ability to provide a stop notice or pull down/remove work?

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Yes

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What regulation states the function of Approved Inspectors

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Regulation 8 of the AI regs

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What regulation states the independence of Approved Inspectors

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Regulation 9 of the AI Regs

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Explain the purpose Regulation 8 of the AI Regs

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Gives the powers for Approved Inspectors to carry out Building Control work as long as the initial notice is valid and in force.

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Explain Regulation 9 of the AI regs

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Approved Inspectors should not have any professional or financial interest in the work they supervise unless it is minor work. The regulation provides examples of professional/financial interests such as being responsible for the design or construction or if your partner has an interest in the project.

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What is minor work

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Material alterations or extension of a dwelling 3 storeys or less
Controlled service or fitting
Underpinning of a building

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What is Regulation 13 of the AI regs?

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Sewerage consultation

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Tell us your understanding of the sewerage consultation from the clients point of view

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A build over agreement or self certification scheme must be agreed and completed with the local sewerage undertaker.

Severn Trent request an existing and proposed layout of the drainage to their drains.

Once agreed, a CCTV survey is carried out before and after the construction. Alternatively, the sewer drains can be upgraded to plastic and a CCTV survey is carried out afterwards.

They also have guidance of drains nearby foundations.

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What is Regulation 17 of the AI Regs?

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Events causing initial notices to cease in force.

Upon completion, the domestic projects must be complete within 8 weeks and commercial projects must be complete with 4 weeks.

An extension of time can be requested to LA.

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What is Regulation 12 of the AI Regs?

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Consultation with the Fire Authority. A consultation will be submitted with a copy of the plans and relevant info and the plan check report.

The Regulatory Reform Order (RRO) states the relevant buildings and change of use projects. Any building with a public lobby would require a fire consultation.

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What is Regulation 39 of the Building Regulations?

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The person carrying out the work must provide the relevant info of the buildings ventilation system to the client or landlord within 5 days. This would include the maintenance requirements

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17
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What commissioning certificates would you ask for on a new dwelling?

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Water Efficiency Calculations
Gas Safe Certificate
Electrical Installation Certificate
Air Test (Pressure Testing)
MEV air flow testing
SAP calculations (including Part O consideration)

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Explain Part S

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Charging points for electrical vehicles.

The number of associated parking spaces which have access to electric vehicle charge points must be—
(a) the total number of associated parking spaces, where there are fewer associated parking spaces than there are dwellings contained in the residential building; or
(b) the number of associated parking spaces that is equal to the total number of dwellings contained in the residential building, where there are the same number of associated parking spaces as, or more associated parking spaces than, there are dwellings.

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Explain Part R

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Infrastructure for electronic communications.

Building work must be carried out so as to ensure that each dwelling is equipped with gigabit-ready
physical infrastructure that extends from a network termination point for gigabit-capable public electronic communications networks.

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20
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Why are the Approved Documents and British Standards used?

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Schedule 1 of the Building Regulations references the Approved Docs. The British Standards are referenced throughout the Approved Documents such as ADB Section 1 in relation to smoke alarm systems

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21
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What is Section 77 and 78 of the Building Act?

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Section 77 - Dangerous Buildings -
The LA provide a notice to the client stating the required measures for public safety within a time limit.

If the correct measures are not taken out, the LA can carry out the measures and send the expenses to the client.

Section 78 - Dangerous Buildings - Emergency Measures

It’s the same as Section 77 but for immediate measures. The LA do not need to provide a notice to the client.

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What are the CDM Regulations?

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The CDM Regs concerns the project stakeholders such as the builder, client and designer. Building Control should also follow the CDM and should report any accidents or health and safety risks

23
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What regulations relate to the inital notice and final certificate

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Initial Notice - Section 47 of the Building Act

Final Certificate - Section 51 off the Building Act

24
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Which regulations relate to Rejections of IN’s and AN’s

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AI Regs - Regulation 10 and 11

25
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Give examples of reasons to reject IN’s

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Works have begun before the IN has been accepted by LA.

The described works are for the HRB to control

IN sent to wrong LA

The IN is not in the prescribed form as per Form 1 of the AI Regs

26
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Give examples of reasons to reject FC’s

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The FC was issued 8 weeks after the works were deemed complete

The IN is not in the prescribed form as per Form 5 of the AI Regs

Lack of Fire Safety Information - Building Control must confirm the responsible person has received the fire safety information as per Regulation 38 of the Building Regs

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What is Regulation 38 of the Building Regs

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The BCB must be provided with a receipt confirming that the responsible person has been provided with the relevant fire safety information at the end of the project. This only applies to projects with public sections within the building.

28
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Which regulation applies to Change of Use

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The Building Regulations 5 (meaning of change of use) and 6 (requirements for change of use).

29
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Which regulation applies to meaning of building work

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The Building Regulations, Regulation 3

30
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What is Regulation 39 of the Building Regulations?

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Information about the mechanical extract ventilation

31
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Which regulation relates to the cancellation of the IN

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AI Regs - Regulation 18

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What is Regulation 13 of the AI Regs?

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Consultation with the Sewerage Undertaker

33
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Tell us about Law

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The entire function of Building Control is related around Law. We carry out our function in accordance to the primary legislation (Building Act and Building Safety Act) and secondary legislation such as the Building Regulations, AI Regulations and Restricted functions and activities act).

Regulation 8 of the AI Regs gives Approved Inspectors to control building work subject to the initial notice being in form.

There are always amendments to legislation such as Building Regulation, Reg 16 which requires the commencement date to be included within the initial notice.

The Law impacts our role as we are required to issue initial notices, consult with the local sewerage undertaker, carry out fire consultations if necessary, carry out plan checks and issue final certificates or cancel initial notices.

The only enforcement power of approved inspectors is cancelling the initial notice which reverts the project back to the local authority.

34
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Which Regulation relates to the compliance certificate

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Building Regulations, Reg 16

35
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Which Regulation relates to the dutyholders

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Building Regulations, Reg 11

36
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Which Regulation relates to the commencement of work

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AI Regs - Reg 16

37
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Tell us about Building Technology

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Offsite construction such as posi joists and truss roofs.

Steelwork such as steel beams and goalposts

Dew point calculation for cold deck roofs without ventilation

38
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Which Regulations relate to the information to be provided to the responsible person

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Building Regulations 38-40

39
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Which Regulations relate to testing and commissioning

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Building Regs 41-44

40
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Tell us about Building Services

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Building services compliment the building by providing comfort to the occupants.

Ventilation
Drainage
Electrics
Heating
Fire Detection

41
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Tell us about Functions and Activities

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The functions and activities act describes the functions and activities for Local Authority, HRB for the Building Safety Regulator and Building Control Approvers.

Regulation 5 relates to Building Control Approvers.

The function involves agreeing fee’s including the T&C’s,
issuing inital notices,
consultations,
plan checks,
carrying out site visits at relevant stages
issuing final certificates or contraventions etc.

42
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Tell us about plans assessments and enforcement

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Plan checks should be carried out on all projects.
The plan check assessment should be issued to all dutyholders.
A plans approval should be issued to the LA in addition to the dutyholders.

As Approved Inspectors, the only enforcement is to cancel the inital notice. (Reg 18).

Local Authority have more enforcement powers.
Reg 47 - Stop notice
Section 77 and 78 - Dangerous Buildings
Section 76 - Defective Buildings

43
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Tell us about Inspections and enforcement

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Site visits should be carried out at relevant stages of the project. The inspections should be recorded with general observations, non-compliances and contraventions.

Photographic evidence should be included in the site visits.

Site visits should be carried out by a competent person or peer reviewed at a minimum. Class 1’s are not allowed to be peer reviewed.

Reviewing the plans and plan check assessment on site.

Site reports are sent to the client

44
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Tell us about management and core skills

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As a team, the live projects are fairly distributed around the team. Each individual has KPI’s on a monthly basis indicating areas where we could improve on such as reducing our plan check list.

Our online portal allows us to find out how many live projects we have, how many jobs that haven’t been visited within 2 months.

We use Outlook as a diary to book our site visits. The inspections are allocated via the location of the visit.

We communicate through weekly and monthly team meetings and a Whatsapp group for anything urgent.

Core skills:
Organised
Punctual
Report writing
Effective Communication
Decision making

45
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Tell us about safety management

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CDM Regulations and Health and Safety Act cover safety management.

Cook Brown’s standard operating procedures includes safety mangement such as wearing PPE on site and lone working.

Raising safety management concerns and incidents to the relevant stakeholders

46
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Tell us about Ethics

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Code of Conduct for Registered
Builiding Inspectors:
▪ honesty and integrity
▪ maintain your professional competence
▪ deliver services with professional skill and care
▪ uphold public trust and confidence in the provision of services and the
profession
▪ encourage and promote equality, diversity and inclusion

complying with your legal, regulatory and professional obligations
▪ business requirements
▪ maintaining professional competence and continuing professional
development
▪ standard of service
▪ engaging with clients

47
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Tell us about fire spread

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Approved Document B, Section B4 covers fire spread.

This covers unprotected areas such as external cladding and non-fire resistant openings.

Cladding rating - class B-s3 d2

There are two methods for calculating openings. I generally use method 1.

within 1m - 1m2
within 2m - 5.6m2
within 3m - 12m

Table B4 provides minimum fire resistance

48
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What does building work mean

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Erection or extension of a building
Controlled service or fitting
Material alteration
Change of use
Thermal renovation
Underpinning

Building Regs 3

49
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Which regulation is material change of use

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Building Reg 5 and 6

50
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Which guidance states all projects should be visited within 3 months

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Building Control Performance Standards

Building Control Level 2A (1 decks)

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