30/01/2021
THE BUILDING REGULATOR STANDARD
It is important as a client or owner to have a person that understand building regulations and standards on your side. As the contractors you hire for the construction of your project must adhere to standards and regulation. As value of your building property is evaluated on building regulations and standards compliance on your building project not money spent on the project.
MISTAKES OFTEN MADE BY CLIENTS
The most usual mistake done by the client is to represent him / herself on a project. Which is risky as most client tends to focus and influenced by the budget. The budget becomes valueless if a contractor hired doesn't adhere to regulations and standards. With less knowledge and skills on regulations and standards. The client's might select a wrong contractor to build their projects and waste their budget. The are many builders on the market. That why it is important to allow a process designed based on regulations and standards compliance on contractors. To select a competitive contractor for the project. Even though budget is important for the but without compliance on regulations and standards it becomes no value.
ADVANTAGE
A professional representative on behalf of a client must be a person qualified in built environment or scholar. As that person must be able to foresee and strategies on things to be done on benefiting the client/ the owner. Having such a person as a representative avoid unnecessary payments, disputes, risks and mostly the project failure. He/ She advise and represent the client on the project in ensuring that regulations and standards are done as promised. He / She should be able to draft a contract that covers regulations and standards. Which eventually becomes guideline for quality evaluation of the project. Also a representative should be able to draft a bill of quantities, which contractors must quote based on it. No contractor should just quote based on previous projects, measurements are important for quotation.
Make sure you first seek a representative to draft also your wishes for your project and able to translate them on regulations and standards. Which guides the construction industry. Also the representative must be able to draft plan, quantify, price, evaluate and issuing of payment certificates. That is very important as that makes and brake the project if not properly monitored.