Building Rules Certification : Building Surveyors

HENDRY building surveyors provide a comprehensive suite of building surveying control services which includes the issuing of building rules certification, BCA Audits, essential safety provisions reports, occupancy permits and various other services. HENDRY building surveyors nominated to assist our clients, has the necessary expertise to professionally represent your interests in every building rules certification.

Building Audits

HENDRY building surveyors have the experience to perform BCA Audits, Due Diligence Audits, Disability Access Audits, Aged Care Audits, Fire Safety Audits, Building Sub-division Audits, Dangerous Goods Audits and Essential Safety Provisions Audits for clients, a number of BCA Audits lead to the issuing of building rules certification.

Since the Building Code of Australia (BCA) does not apply to buildings retrospectively and is continually being revised and improved, building surveyors will advise that most buildings in South Australia do not comply with the current BCA or building rules certification conditions. A building owner wishing to sell, or a prospective purchaser of a building therefore, may need to know from our building surveyors whether the building complies with the current BCA in such areas as fire safety provisions, health and amenity provisions, access for disabled, services compliance, consequences of building rules certification and services life expectancy. HENDRY building surveyors can provide building owners or prospective building purchasers with a BCA Audit on the compliance status of a building, so that informed decisions can be made in the building rules certification process if required.

Fire Safety Engineering & Alternative Solutions

Our building surveyors advise that the deemed to satisfy provisions of the Building Code of Australia can often impose unnecessary building costs in building rules certification as a result of conservative provisions. The BCA is however, a performance-based code allowing alternative solutions to be assessed by building surveyors when issuing a building rules certification. Its performance requirements can be used by our building surveyors in order to achieve an alternative solution to prescriptive specified standards. Performance requirements provide building surveyors with the criteria to ensure that regulatory objectives are achieved, and allow for innovative, alternative solutions, and safe and cost effective building designs to be presented for various building rules certification. HENDRY building surveyors have the qualifications and experience necessary to assess fire safety engineering performance-based alternative solutions. Our building surveyors are able to assist you with your building rules certification requirements.