Has a building control officer ever visited your site?

4Sticks · 28-09-2013 11:01am #1

Attention self builders , contractors , and all construction professionals.

An invitation now to share your experiences of meeting with any of these officials during your works or works you were involved in.

Obviously omit details which are not sensible to post here but please share "the gist" of your experiences.

kilclon · 28-09-2013 11:57am

Good idea for a thread. Can you change the poll to include sample size? Difficult to extrapolate any useful info from it without some indication as to the the amount of construction work undertaken by the participants.

Like 'Never happened once in any works I have been involved in' has a completely different meaning to someone who built a garden shed and someone who has built/worked on 100's of houses.

Gumbo · 28-09-2013 1:59pm

Yes. Twice in two different LA's but both in Dublin. Fingal and DCC.

One a €1M+ domestic renovation.
The other a domestic attic conversion.

In the posts it might be a good idea to state where or at least what LA to get an idea of the most active.

kilclon · 28-09-2013 4:29pm

kceire wrote: »

Yes. Twice in two different LA's but both in Dublin. Fingal and DCC.

One a €1M+ domestic renovation.
The other a domestic attic conversion.

In the posts it might be a good idea to state where or at least what LA to get an idea of the most active.

How big is your sample size?

I haven't seen any on a pretty small sample of around 10 domestic and commercial projects of varying value.

4Sticks · 28-09-2013 4:50pm

My sample : Hundreds of of buildings of many types over 18 years. Mostly but not all local to M50 area.

Not one site visit. Ever.

Gumbo · 28-09-2013 5:58pm

kilclon wrote: »

How big is your sample size?

I haven't seen any on a pretty small sample of around 10 domestic and commercial projects of varying value.

I've worked in private multi discipline practice from 2002 to 2008. We were architects, engineers (my quals) and project management.

We worked in everything from a single storey domestic extension to hospital lap refurbishment to schools, student residence on Dartry and so on

Also don't forget, BC officers will only vist sites that have lodged commencement notices, not all of them obviously though.

I don't know, I know councils have a bad rep and things are changing slowly in there, the younger staff are comming through and the older dinosaur type staff are retiring etc

The you get staff are a lot more eager and a lot easier to deal with and a lot more pro-active.

archtech · 28-09-2013 8:47pm

Never in 20 years has a building control officer visited a site I've been involved in. In that time I have worked on residential, commercial, industrial and educational from small extensions to large scale projects in a large number of counties across the country. I would guess that I completed and submitted well over 500 commencement notices for individual projects on behalf of clients. The nearest thing I got to a visit from a BCA visit was a request to submit the DEAP XML file on completion of the project after I lodged a commencement notice.