Building services: building engineering work
4B Building services: building engineering work
In this regulation —
building engineering work —
means either of the following that relates to a building or incidental structure —
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);
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
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 —
for carrying out a design, or construction or production activity, relating to engineering; and
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 —
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
does not include engineering work that is done only in accordance with a prescriptive standard;
technical engineering work 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; and
is done in accordance with a prescriptive standard.
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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