scholarly journals STUDY ON IMPEDIMENTS AND SUCCESS OF BUILDING BYELAWS IMPLEMENTATION IN LAHORE, PAKISTAN

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asim ◽  
Saima Gulzar ◽  
Muhammad Mashood Arif ◽  
Rumana Khan Shirwani
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Building Control ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Satisfactory Condition ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
Underlying Causes

Building regulations are a silent protector to the general public. These are mostly not well recognized unless a situation arises where regulations are felt inadequate or not enforced. In Lahore a number of authorities are present for the same purpose. This research aims at studying the building regulations of the city’s four different authorities i.e. Lahore Development Authority (LDA), town Municipal Administration (TMA), Lahore Cantonment Board (LCB) and Model Town Cooperative Society (MCS), and assesses the underlying causes for their implementation failures and successes. Along with reviewing the international practices, the study identifies respondents from the general public and building officials and thus tabulates the obtained results for analyzing the efficiency of a building authority. Socio-economic surveys as well as interview surveys have been conducted, in the light of which the working of all four authorities in relevance to different attributes have been assessed. The results reveal that the MCS has the most efficient building regulations mechanism and portrays an overall satisfactory condition. Recommendations have been made to identify tools for better implementation of building bye laws as well as provide an insight to the user for legalized building construction. KEYWORDS Building Bye Laws, Implementation, Building Control Authorities, Lahore

scholarly journals Compliance and Enforcement Challenges in the National Building Regulations’ Processes of South Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fetnani Cecilia
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Building Control ◽  
Building Standards

The chapter discusses the compliance and enforcement processes of the National Building Regulations of South Africa. These processes are administered by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) in terms of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103 of 1977 (The Act). The objective was to investigate the how the business processes by the NRCS have enforced Building Control Officers at the Local Authorities nationwide to comply with the safety of buildings for building occupants or end-users. The investigation was largely motivated by the high number of injuries, deaths and/or human lives affected and reported due to collapsing and defective buildings. It was a case study based on disasters occurred and reported at various Local Authorities, in private residential homes, government-owned buildings, abandoned and commercial buildings, such as shopping malls. This study was conducted using discussions and survey with affected stakeholders. The stakeholders ranged from building owners, prospective building owners and/or building occupants, built-environment practitioners, Local Authorities’ Building Control Officers and the Regulator. The relevant information was gathered in an ethical manner and for the intended study only. The empirical findings revealed that there was a critical need for business process review and strategy shifts that advance objectivity and benefits to compliance, visibility and awareness of regulatory process. The output is a proposed re-design of NRCS business processes that can effectively enforce compliance of the building regulations of South Africa.

Designing houses: the façade and the architecture of street and square

2018 ◽  
pp. 75-121
Author(s):  
Conor Lucey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
City Councils ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Competence ◽  
Pattern Books

This chapter builds on a rich and complex history of the eighteenth-century urban house in the cities of Britain, Ireland and North America. Shifting emphasis away from construction, economic competence and labour organization – the predominant focus of academic studies devoted to this class of building producer – it investigates the artisan’s engagement with the processes and aesthetics of architectural design. With prominence given to the design of the house façade, topics include the emerging standardization in building construction; building regulations and the varying degrees of control exercised by landowners and city councils; and the responsibility of design to the urban milieu, specifically the requisite (ideal) interface between private concern (house) and public obligation (street). With reference to artisanal education through apprenticeship and builders’ academies, and the role of pattern books and drawing portfolios, this chapter argues that building tradesmen were concerned as much with making design (architecture) as with making profits (building).

Windows Energy Labelling in Slovakia

2014 ◽  
Vol 1020 ◽  
pp. 597-600
Author(s):  
Ivan Chmúrny
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Energy Saving ◽  
General Public ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Rating System ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
National System ◽  
Energy Labelling ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Labelling System

Energy labelling of windows has been introduced in some Member States - for example Denmark, Finland, Slovakia and the UK. The UK BFRC scheme on window energy labelling has proved very efficient in communicating to the general public about the energy saving properties of high performance products thus contributing to their faster uptake. Slovak labelling system was introduced in 2008. The paper deals with main principles of energy rating system used in Slovenergookno. National system for rating the energy efficiency of windows and is recognised within the Building Regulations as a method to show compliance for your replacement windows installation..

scholarly journals Compliance and enforcement challenges: A case of the national building regulations’ processes in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-684
Author(s):  
Michael Twum-Darko ◽  
Patricia Ntombizodwa Mazibuko
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Building Regulations ◽  
Building Control ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Building Standards

This paper discusses the compliance and enforcement processes of the National Building Regulations of South Africa. These processes are administered by the National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) in terms of the National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act 103 of 1977 (The Act). The objective was to investigate the how the business processes by the NRCS have enforced Building Control Officers at the Local Authorities nationwide to comply with the safety of buildings for building occupants or end-users. The investigation was largely motivated by the high number of injuries, deaths and/or human lives affected and reported due to collapsing and defective buildings. It was a case study based on disasters occurred and reported at various Local Authorities, in private residential homes, government-owned buildings, abandoned and commercial buildings, such as shopping malls. This study applied the interpretive approach underpinned by qualitative methodology where interviews and questionnaires were used to collect data from affected stakeholders. The stakeholders ranged from building owners, prospective building owners and/or building occupants, built-environment practitioners, Local Authorities’ Building Control Officers and the Regulator. In gathering the data, it was ensured that it was done in an ethical manner and for the intended study only. The empirical findings revealed that there was a critical need for business process review and strategy shifts that advance objectivity and benefits to compliance, visibility and awareness of regulatory process. The output is a proposed re-design NRCS business processes that can effectively enforce compliance of the building regulations of South Africa.

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