Unit 8 Building Regulations and Control in Construction, Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment

Learning aim 1: Understand the requirements of the building regulations
Learning aim 2: Examine the requirements of the building regulations

Assignment - The Building Regulations Explained

Vocational Scenario or Context

You are working as a trainee for a small design and build contractor. Their portfolio is typically small to medium residential and commercial projects, with a specialism for one off high-quality bespoke schemes. After recently securing several new contracts to design and build high
quality houses, the company was bought out by a large European construction firm looking to gain a foothold in the UK market. They are very experienced in all aspects of construction, across Germany and France, but they are limited in their understanding of the UK market and the specific regulatory requirements, such as planning and building regulations requirements.

Within the design team your role is to prepare and submit building regulation applications. Your company uses both the local authority and private inspector routes. The new directors have approached your team and asked for a guide to the building regulations that they can use to train the European staff who will eventually come to work in the office.

Your team leader has approached you to produce a guide that can be used as a training document.

Task 1

Prepare a comprehensive guide to the building regulations.
As a minimum, your guide should:
- Highlight the requirements of the Building Act
- Consider the benefits and drawbacks and effectiveness of the different methods of control and implementation of the Building Regulations for a variety of project types
- Discuss the role of the Approved Documents, their relationship to the Building Act and how they help building designers and contractors to comply with the Building Regulations
- Consider different methods of demonstrating compliance with the building regulations

Your guide should cover different sized projects for both residential and commercial projects.

The document will be used as a 'Handbook for Building Regulations' by the company and will be distributed to all levels of staff in the European offices. You should ensure itis technically accurate, but also presented and written in anappropriate style for technical and non-technical staff.

You will have produced a clear and detailed guide to the building regulations that will be used by a range of technical and non-technical staff. The guide should be presented in an appropriate format and should where appropriate use tables, flowcharts and diagrams. Appropriate annotated images would be useful to illustrate key points.

Criteria

To achieve the criteria you must show that you are able to:

Describe the requirements of the building regulations.
Explain the different methods of control and implementation for building regulation applications.
Describe the different methods of achieving compliance with the building regulations.
Outline the requirements of the Approved Documents.
Discuss the different methods of application and control for a building regulations application.
Analyse the different methods of demonstrating compliance with the building regulations.