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Engineer Technician

  • 28-09-2007 5:43pm
    #1
    willywilliams
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Maybe this question has already been addressed but I could not find the thread. I didnt realize there was more than one type of 'engineer', but I am using an Engineer Technician to draw up my plans and submit to coco. He said he would be able to "sign off" on the construction stages. Will this qualification pose a problem down the road re. building certifications and/or financing?


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  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,550 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    It shouldnt really make any difference as to who supervises your works providing they are at least of technician standard, have min. 7 years working experience and hold professional indemnity insurance.

    One or two of the lending institutions still insist on an architect or engineer and wont accept a technician and some of them would have a panel of sorts of people they accept in the area for this type of work.

    You need to check with your mortgage company and your solicitor that they are happy enough for him to undertake the supervision. In the long term there is a small chance that, should you ever decide to sell and the prospective buyers are securing a mortgage from one of the institutions that insist on an architect/engineer, they may not be prepared to accept his certification.


  • #3
    godtabh
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 23,243 Mod ✭✭✭✭godtabh


    Engineering technian genearly have more experience than some one who simply studied CAD in college.

    An engineer is more qualified and if you want construction drawings (and really any drawings) singed off you need a chartered engineer. Look at the IEI guidelines on this kind of thing.

    I for example being an engineer could do you construction drawings but am not competent enough to sign them off, off my own bat according to the IEI and rightly so


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