Building Control Certification: SE vs BS

I have never heard of a lead Certifier.

In accordance with the Building Control Act 2007, there are only 2 types of Statutory Registered Certifiers;-

1.     State Registered Design Certifier

2.     State Registered Assigned Certifier

The 4 Professionals who may qualify and may be registered for one or both of these Title are as follows:-

1.     Chartered Building Surveyor (Protected Title) (Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)

2.     Registered Building Surveyor (Protected Title) (Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)

3.     Chartered Civil Engineer (Engineers Ireland)

4.     Registered Architect (Protected Title) (Royal Institution of the Architects of Ireland)

Any one of these above-mentioned 4 Professionals who are State Registered Design Certifiers - are authorized to design any buildings - in the Republic of Ireland.

Any one of these above-mentioned Professionals who are a State Registered Assigned Certifiers - are authorized to certify the construction of any building - from commencement on site to completion of the building - in the Republic of Ireland.

If a Registered Building Surveyor or Chartered Building Surveyor confirms that they will provide a Certificate of Compliance with the Building Regulations and/ or Planning Permission, they are qualified to do same.

An Opinion on a Certificate of Compliance covers all of parts of the Building Regulations, unless otherwise stated.

A Certificate of Compliance issued by Building Control Management System (BCMS) Certifies Compliance of all parts of the Building Regulations - no exclusions whatsoever.

I was referring to this reply by you:-

That’s a tough question I suppose. Ask them what other jobs they done in the area where they acted as

lead Certifier or Assigned Certifier.

Ask them will their certs cover all of the requirements of the building regulations, Part A to M.

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My reply of today was in relation to your mentioning of and Assigned Certifier (see Above)

My Reply of today above DID refer to an Opinion on a Certificate of Compliance which is outside of the BCMS

Heretofore, there was no mention of any Architectural Technologist

The only 2 professions mentioned heretofore was a Building Surveyor and a Structural Engineer.

An Architectural Technologist(who is not also one of the 4 Professions mentioned in mine above) cannot be

registered as State Registered Assigned Certifier.

Is being a Chartered Building Surveyor is sufficient, that's the wording used in the statute is registered/on the register. If Charter Surveyors are automatically on the Institutes register, then it's not a separate category. And the 3rd is not limited to Civil engineers. It's any Chartered Engineer. Those are the 3 professions.

Worth mentioning the reason why it’s only those three is partially political. One body in particular decided to prioritise one set of members over another.

But being afforded the opportunity to be a certifier is not the same having the knowledge/ability. There are many Engineer’s who work only on domestic scale, and competently do it all. But the actually top structural engineers would have no clue of any regs outside of part A (nor do they need to). Similar applies to the other two professions.

Hmmm, slight correction. Any of those three can certify the design of any building. They absolutely cannot design any building single handed. Not in the real world were ability and liability matters. Ancillary certs exist for a reason. An Architect, or a Surveyor is not going to be undertaking the structural design for a complex building. Similarly, the other two are not going to be undertaking architectural design and so on. I think that's the BS and SE are referring to in the OP.