And, as in the other place, I will serve up the only official figures to have seen daylight. - You can then draw your own conclusion about what fraction of the UKs 60,000 or so electricians have not joined a scheme, and how many notifications there ought to be to building control.
Which is odd, as I personally know the first notified rewire in Winchester was done less than a month ago by a colleague of ours, (we sort of put him up to it to test the system - and it passed with only minor comments, of course, but they brought the whole building control team round to see it, as it was such a special occasion !)
For the benefit of those readers not familier with what was said in "the other place"..
here we go
The last official (ODPM) figures that have seen the light of day so far, have now been displayed publicly in the building control magazine 'sitelines' here.
http://www.sitelines.co.uk/default.asp?channel_id=2233&editorial_id=18753
They are the figures for the first quarter of 2005, so probably rather low, as I'm sure one or two more firms will have signed up since then. .
however the key numbers of firms with each body were then
BRE: 750
(It is not clear if this figure includes the ECA members auto-joined or not.)
BSI: 70
CORGI: 1841
ELECSA: 718
NAPIT: 873
NICEIC: 12,587 (of whom about 10,000 auto-joined as they already had NICEIC approval, before the scheme started)
OFTEC: 0
and the total number of notifiable jobs in this time about 158,000 in the first 3 months
IF this work-rate has scaled in the following quarters, this is suggesting an average of about 30 notifiable jobs per year, per business.
Obviously for some it will be much more, and for others less.
One should also note that the NIC figure started high, as they already had about 10,000 members who were already in a position to qualify pretty much from day one - so this does not represent such a large rate of growth as for example CORGI, who started from a nil base in terms of electrical work. The actual number of totally new applicants, who were not NIC members already is more or less similar to the figures for the other schemes.
regards Mike
PS
Bad news for OFTEC and the BSI I guess....
