Buildings Inspector
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A passion to work 6 hours per day, with an hour or two for lunch; an ability to spend an hour poring over a drawing for a kitchen extension to find anything to criticise; an autocratic air when inspecting building work, with long, quiet periods examining something with the aim of worrying the builder; an ability to issue veiled threats of legal proceedings to pull something down; the ability to tell the boss that he/she will examine a building on the way home from work (but only spend 2 minutes there, if that); the right to take a day or three off work after having sustained a paper cut; and the desire to retire at 60 on gold-plated defined-benefit schemes.
Yes, an excellent career choice I would have made years ago had my head been screwed on properly.
A passion to work 6 hours per day, with an hour or two for lunch; an ability to spend an hour poring over a drawing for a kitchen extension to find anything to criticise; an autocratic air when inspecting building work, with long, quiet periods examining something with the aim of worrying the builder; an ability to issue veiled threats of legal proceedings to pull something down; the ability to tell the boss that he/she will examine a building on the way home from work (but only spend 2 minutes there, if that); the right to take a day or three off work after having sustained a paper cut; and the desire to retire at 60 on gold-plated defined-benefit schemes.
Yes, an excellent career choice I would have made years ago had my head been screwed on properly.
Yes, all very good for the elite BCOs, but what about the tossers?
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I can only Google the same as the OP could. According to the National Careers Service:
"Most new building control surveyors have an HNC, HND or a degree or an equivalent qualification. Employers may also prefer you to be an accredited member of a professional body such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institute of Building Engineers (CABE) or The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
Relevant degree subjects include:
And as a matter of information, a new Local Government Pension Scheme came out in 2014 and pays out at the same age as the state pension.
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Richard
"Most new building control surveyors have an HNC, HND or a degree or an equivalent qualification. Employers may also prefer you to be an accredited member of a professional body such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Chartered Institute of Building Engineers (CABE) or The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB).
Relevant degree subjects include:
- building studies
- civil engineering
- structural engineering
- building control
- building surveying"
And as a matter of information, a new Local Government Pension Scheme came out in 2014 and pays out at the same age as the state pension.
Cheers
Richard
My comment was tongue-in-cheek- regulation is a necessary evil of course, and someone has to do it. I'm not a BCO, but am in a position to thank all current taxpayers for maintaining my 'gold-plated' pension.
'buildings inspector' is a broad term nowadays.
For example, I contract to a large housing association. They have building inspectors that have no specific building qualifications. They bring in experts such as 'me' when faced with anything remotely technical.
It just depends on the company and job role.
What's your background in?
For example, I contract to a large housing association. They have building inspectors that have no specific building qualifications. They bring in experts such as 'me' when faced with anything remotely technical.
It just depends on the company and job role.
What's your background in?
What are you doing currently?
Multi trade as in a little of this and that or do you have any recognised qualifications or experience. eg. NVQ's, apprenticeships and the like?
BC in my opinion is a waste of time in London, its not like people are bothered about selling a house without the paperwork. There is high demand and the buyer has not even bothered to ask whether it has a BC cert as they know the house will be snapped up by someone else. On many occasions i know of some houses that does not have a certificate after works, no probs in selling the house, no regulisation certs, no indemnity, no palaver.
Do you have equal knowledge of the sold properties that turn out to have problems because of unauthorised and unregualted work done?
Building Reglations was never meant as a home selling wildcard.
Like that, sounds great ......sadly not true
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