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reg 4B

Building services: building engineering work

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4B Building services: building engineering work

(1)

In this regulation —

building engineering work —

(a)

means either of the following that relates to a building or incidental structure —

(i)

professional engineering work of the kind carried out by a building service practitioner in a class of building engineering practitioner listed in the Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011 regulation 6(1);

(ii)

technical engineering work of the kind carried out by a building service practitioner in a class of building engineering practitioner listed in the Building Services (Registration) Regulations 2011 regulation 6(1);

and

(b)

includes the examination of plans and specifications to provide building design solutions in line with engineering principles, data and calculations, except building design solutions that comprise plumbing work;

engineering work does not include plumbing work;

prescriptive standard means a document that states procedures or criteria —

(a)

for carrying out a design, or construction or production activity, relating to engineering; and

(b)

the application of which, to the carrying out of the design, or construction or production activity, does not require advanced scientifically‑based calculations;

professional engineering work —

(a)

means engineering work that requires, or is based on, the application of engineering principles and data to a design, or construction or production activity, relating to engineering; but

(b)

does not include engineering work that is done only in accordance with a prescriptive standard;

technical engineering work means engineering work that —

(a)

requires, or is based on, the application of engineering principles and data to a design, or construction or production activity, relating to engineering; and

(b)

is done in accordance with a prescriptive standard.

(2)

Building engineering work is prescribed for the purposes of the definition of building service in section 3 of the Act.

[Regulation 4B inserted: SL 2023/64 r. 27; amended: SL 2024/255 r. 4.]

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