5.4  Standards of Workmanship

Zones are to be designed and constructed to meet all relevant national and local legislation and conform to good industry practice in all respects.

Notwithstanding the requirement to comply with relevant Statutory Requirements, the Contractor shall also comply with the following requirements and good practice wherever relevant. In all cases, both statutory and otherwise, the latest enactment or re-enactment shall apply:

a)  All materials, goods and appliances for the developments, shall comply as a minimum with the latest relevant British Standard Specifications, British Board of Agreement Certificates, CIBSE guides, Building Energy Codes and Technical Memoranda, Building Research Establishment Digests and Good Building Guides and Local Authority building requirements and be fit for their intended use.

b)  All workmanship shall as a minimum be in accordance with the recommendations of the latest relevant:

i.  British Standard Specifications

ii.  British Standard Codes of Practice

iii.  CIBSE guides

iv.  Building Energy Codes and Technical Memoranda D.O.E./DETR circulars

v.  Trades suppliers, manufacturers, representative bodies Codes of Practice and recommendations of BRE Digests and Good Building Guides

vi.  the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers guidelines

vii.  Local Authority's preferred practices

viii.  Good common practice  

ix.  The standards set out in B.S. 8000

x.  British Board of Agrement Certification

c)  all materials and workmanship must comply with the relevant European Standards as defined by Regulation 8 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 1993 (S.I. No. 3228), and applicable at the date of the use and or performance of the same, save that in the absence of such European specifications, European Standards and/or European technical approvals, the Contractor must abide by the relevant British Standards and Codes of Practice applicable at the date of the carrying out works.

d)  no materials, products or procedures listed in Section 5.4 of this Output Specification and no materials or products which at the time of use are widely known to building or maintenance Contractors or design consultants within the European Union to be deleterious to health or safety or to the durability of buildings and/or other structures and/or finishes and/or plant and machinery in the particular circumstances in which they are used, may be used in either construction or repairs.

Where materials, goods or appliances or workmanship standards are covered by more than one of the above standards and/or recommendations, the higher or more stringent shall be adopted (meaning that BS Licensing/Codes of Practice or the equivalent European standards will take precedence.  Agrement Certificates will only be considered where there are no relevant standards available for the product or material used in this contract).