Compliance & Support
Objective of Compliance Support: Promote a Culture of Compliance with both Building and Construction Products Regulations through our COMPLIANCE SUPPORT programme.
Provide Quality Customer Service to the 31 Building Control Authorities (BCAs) & Market Surveillance Authorities (MSAs).
Promote the use of ICT to record inspections, request compliance information (Section 11 Requests) and manage enforcement.
CONTACT US email - support@nbco.gov.ie
The Building Control Acts 1990-2014 places a statutory obligation on owners, designers and builders to design and build in accordance with the building regulations; establishes Building Control Authorities (BCA’s) and empowers them to regulate and control building activity. BCAs must be notified of works covered by the Act, maintain a public register of key building control decisions and activities. S.I. No. 9 of 2014 and S.I. No. 365 of 2015 place additional statutory duties on owners, designers, certifiers, builders and BCAs to inspect, certify and ensure compliance certification. The LGMA implemented the Building Control Management System (BCMS) to enable efficiencies in Building Control. The LGMA implemented the Building Control Management System (BCMS) to enable efficiencies in Building Control. The Framework for Building Control Authorities is prepared as part of an Agreed Operational Framework for BCAs to standardise work practices, systems, procedures and decision-making in relation to oversight of building control activity across the local authority sector, to enhance consistency of approach nationally, and to move towards a risk-based approach to inspections by building control authorities.