Building Approvals: Building Certifiers: Building Certification

HENDRY building certifiers provide a comprehensive suite of building certification control services which includes the issuing of building approvals, BCA Audits, fire safety installations reports, certificate of classification and various other services. HENDRY building certifiers nominated to assist our clients, have the necessary expertise to professionally represent your interests and issue the necessary building approvals.

Building Audits

HENDRY building certifiers 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 Fire Safety Installations Audits for clients, a number of BCA Audits lead to the issuing of building approvals.

Since the Building Code of Australia (BCA) does not apply to buildings retrospectively and is continually being revised and improved, building certifiers will advise that most buildings in Queensland do not comply with the current BCA or building approvals conditions. A building owner wishing to sell, or a prospective purchaser of a building therefore, may need to know from our building certifiers whether the building complies with the current BCA in such areas as fire safety installations, health and amenity provisions, access for disabled, services compliance, consequences of building approvals and services life expectancy. HENDRY building certifiers 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 approvals process if required.

Fire Safety Engineering & Alternative Solutions

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