Building regs submission

[bandejapaisa]

I’d like something clarifying if anyone can help.

If your architect submits plans to your building control control company, and they approve the plans. Are building control then allowed to question elements and request deviations from the plans they already approved?

Or is their job to ensure you build it according to your plans.

Also, conversely, if you need to deviate from the approved plans - don you just need to get prior approval?

How does it work?

 

[Bonni]

Building control will just simply want to see each stage of the build to at least match the specification in the Approved Documents. Also, where there's structural elements, they want a copy of the structural engineers calcs for their file.

When you build, you are more than welcome to increase of the building regs spec. So for example, put in larger steel than required, more insulation in the walls etc..

Where you breach or don't achieve regs, you will get pulled up. To be honest, building regs minimum on insulation is **** poor, and if you're not at least doubling that, the architect did a poor job.

 

[^woody^]

Fundamentally, the inspector is not able to demand changes or tell you how to build. They are there to check that the work complies with the building regulations (not the plans), and that may mean that building to the approved drawing is not compliant.

They may suggest changes which in their view would result in compliant work. Or, you may suggest your own changes or keep to the approved drawings if you feel that work will comply.