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Building Regulations and Standards: New Part L

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    • CommentAuthorPaulD
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    Has anyone heard anything about when this is due out. They are supposed to be in force this October? Scotland released the equivalent technical standard last week.
    thanks
    Paul
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    Paul

    Do you have a link to the Scottish standards?
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    I am also very interested in both the Scotish link and what is happening in the rest of the UK.
    • CommentAuthorsinnerboy
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010 edited
     
    This Scottish document is the 2010 Technical Handbooks - Domestic Section 6 Energy - which comes into force on October 1, 2010.

    http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/217736/0096961.pdf


    This is the Irish Part L - effective since 1 July 2009.

    http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/DevelopmentandHousing/BuildingStandards/FileDownLoad,19069,en.pdf
    • CommentAuthorsinnerboy
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2010
     
    On the 18 June 2009, Communities and Local Government published the Proposed Changes to Part L (Conservation of Fuel and Power) and Part F (Means of Ventilation) of the Building Regulations: A Consultation Paper, which sets out the proposed changes to these Approved Documents that are planned to come into force in 2010.

    http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/partlf2010consultation

    The consultation proposes a range of measures, including a strategy for training and dissemination, designed to further improve the levels of compliance and performance in buildings. The consultation closes on the 17 September 2009 and you can download a response form on the Communities and Local Government website.

    The UK Government is currently considering transferring responsibility for Building Regulations in Wales to the Welsh Assembly, in which case these proposals will only apply in England
    • CommentAuthorPaulD
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2010
     
    I replied to the consultation back in Sept last year. As a SAP software developer I have a vested interest and I am very concerned about the timetable for implementation. Your comment regarding the Welsh assembly is scary, its bad enough having to produce a separate version of the software for Scotland. We should be harmonising not fragmented regulation.
    • CommentAuthorsinnerboy
    • CommentTimeApr 23rd 2010
     
    And Northern Ireland

    http://www.dfpni.gov.uk/tb_f1_mp_v6.pdf

    ( not my comment about the Welsh assembly by the way - that text is cut and paste from the planning portal site )

    So England - check
    ROI - check
    NI - check
    Scotland - check
    Wales - check - (maybe)
    • CommentAuthordelboy
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2010
     
    Does anyone have a list of the new features contained in Part L1a 2010?
    • CommentAuthordelboy
    • CommentTimeSep 22nd 2010
     
    Update - just found this.

    I notice that it says that the fuel factors don't change, but that's not true. So handle document with some caution.
    • CommentAuthorsinnerboy
    • CommentTimeSep 25th 2010 edited
     
    With our current Part L only issued in 2008 - Part L in Ireland is set to be revised again - here is the Draft for public comment .

    It requires a 60% improvement vs Part L 2005 i.e. will require performance "akin to Passiv House standard" to paraphrase our Green Party Environment Minister John Gormley .

    http://www.environ.ie/en/Legislation/DevelopmentandHousing/BuildingStandards/FileDownLoad,23657,en.pdf

    Some very useful tables are included on pages 72-81. They are a matrix of Ψ values ( for varying elemental U Values ) for all the assembly details in the set of Acceptable Construction Details ( similar to UK Accredited Details )

    The Acceptable Construction Details can be found here http://www.environ.ie/en/TGD/ ( scroll down a little )

    About this time last year the DOE here publicly tendered the thermal modelling process to produce these tables .

    BRE Scotland won the gig . Good work !

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