Building Control
A design professional who is a member of the system can register a dwelling on the Foresite online building control system for a fee of £100.00 using their administration page. This quality assurance system has three sections that will guarantee compliance.
1. Registration and Design Section
This section allows the design professional to import the compliant design information : From their administration page into the Foresite building control system to set the standard when registering the dwelling, this design information can be viewed by the registered stakeholders.
The building control system will provide the registered stakeholders (The Approved Verifier and officer, The designer, The Builder, The Scheme Provider/Approved Operator operator, The energy assessor and promoter) with project IDs and passwords allowing them to view the following design information for a specific project.
- The construction drawings and specific technical data for each element of the Part L1A specification for the fabric and fixed building specification.
- The technical calculations for the U value and y factor calculation and print out of the SAP Assessmentand proof of compliance.
- An email informing the stakeholders but in particular the builder of what their responsibilities are in completing the compliance documents.
2. Onsite Compliance documents Section:
Allows all the registered stakeholders with a project ID and password have access to the fabric and fixed building customised compliance documents for the registered dwelling, it is the responsibility of the builder to download these documents and have them completed.
These fabric and fixed building customised compliance documents will guarantee on site compliance because:
- These documents will be customised with correct construction detail for the project and will be populated with the compliant design specification.
- These documents cannot be signed off by the builder unless the as constructed Part L1A specification is equal to or better that the detail and specification described in these customised documents.
- If all these customised compliance documents provided by the system are completed and signed by the builder then compliance and proof of compliance will be guaranteed.
3. As Constructed Section :
The Foresite building control system is self-regulating because the stakeholders will be informed by the building control system that different aspects of the Part L1A specification are completed and the summary can be viewed online or onsite.
- The building control system informs the builder by email that they need to forward the customised compliance documents to the design professional or administrator, who then summaries the as constructed documents on line, through their administration page.
- The administrator then informs the stakeholders using the email on the building control system that the as constructed summary can be viewed online. The energy assessor then uses the as constructed documentation online to calculate the as constructed DER using their version of SAP to prove compliance.
- When the administrator summaries the as constructed DER online they send an email to all the stakeholders informing them that the as constructed data will be permanently locked down and if they believe that any of the data is incorrect they have two months to query the detail from the date of the email.