Webinar - Certification of Design and Construction

Date: Monday 28 March 2022
This was an on-line event.
Topic: Construction

About the Event 

The Building (Scotland) Act 2003 provides the opportunity for design professionals in the construction industry, practising in Scotland, to be able to certify that a design meets one or more Sections of the Technical Standards. To do so a designer must demonstrate and maintain competency in that section of the Technical Standards by becoming an Approved Certifier of Design recognised by a Scheme Provider approved by Scottish Ministers.

This webinar will outline what the Design Certification covers:

  • It distinguishes the design professional from those less qualified
  • The granting of a building warrant is not conclusive proof that compliance with the Technical Standards has been achieve, nor does any liability transfer to the local authority granting a building warrant. Certification of Design is a guarantee of compliance from the Approved Certifier of Design
  • The Scottish Government supports the Certification of Design becoming the norm for warrant applications. It already is for all but the most minor of structural alterations.
  • The Scottish Government’s public procurement guidance supports and encourages the use of Approved Certifiers of Design, making this the benchmark of competency for public projects
  • As pressure mounts on local authorities to process warrant applications, those certified should be processed quicker with fewer points raised in warrant reports

Dr Richard Atkins

Richard has over 35 years’ experience and completed a PhD in the Assessment of Social, Financial and Environmental Sustainability in the Existing Built Environment in 2017.

Since 2000 Richard has specialised in producing buildings, which:

  • minimise their detrimental environmental impact, both during construction and in use
  • reinterpret and conserve traditional buildings, and
  • meet community and social needs

Richard is a Certifier of Design (Section 6 – Energy) Domestic and a New Build Domestic Energy Assessor.

Cost

Members: free 

Non-members: £10.00