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Building Pathology - Building Surveying

Bodies

 - Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland - Register of Surveyors

Reading

• Surveying Buildings by Malcolm Hollis, 5th edition, ISBN 9781842191927
• Chimney Pots and Stacks - An Introduction to Their History Variety and Identification, by Valentine Fletcher forward by J.H.B. Peel, published by Centaur Press Ltd.
• Period Houses, a Conservation Guidance Manual by Dublin Civic Trust
• Wastewater treatment manuals treatment systems for single houses. 2000 by Environmental protection agency (EPA)
• House Building Manual by Home Bond
• Rolled Lead Sheet - The Complete Manual 2015 Edition by The Lead Sheet Association
• I.S. 440:2009+A1:2014 - Timber frame construction, dwellings and other buildings (including amendment 1, consolidated)

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

Contract Law

Bodies

 - Law Society of Ireland

Reading

 - Treitel The Law of Contract, 15th edition by Edwin Peel, published by Sweet Maxwell
 - Contract Cases and Materials, by H.G. Beale, W.D. Bishop, and M.P. Furmston

Design and Architecture

Bodies

 - Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland - Register of Architects

Reading

 - Design, construction, modification, maintenance and decommissioning of filling stations - 3rd edition by The Association for Petroleum and Explosives Administration (APEA) and Energy Institute (EI), London
 - Information Paper (IP) 5/92 - Site Layout planning for daylight and sunlight: a guide to good practice by P J Littlefair, superseded by IP 22/12
 - IP 22/12 - Site layout planning for sunlight and solar gain
 - IP 23/12 - Site layout planning for daylight to be read in conjunction with IP 22/12
 - A World History of Architecture by Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse
 - The Guide to Copper in Architecture by Copper in Architecture, Uniclass L51/2:P44 February 2006
 - Flughafe Berlin Brandenburg / Berlin Brandenburg Airport, by Willy Brandt

Dispute Resolution

Bodies

 - Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIARB) - Contact
 - Society of Chartered Surveyors (SCSI) - Dispute Resolution Services
 - Construction Industry Federation (CIF) - Dispute Resolution Panel
 - Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) - Dispute Resolution Services

Adjudication

 - SI No. 3 of 2013 - Construction Contracts Act 2013
 - Construction Contracts Act, 2013, Code of Practice Governing the Conduct of Adjudications
 - Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment - Construction Contracts Adjudication Service - Appointment of Adjudicator

 - Construction Adjudication, by HHJ Peter Coulson QC, pubished by Oxford
 - Adjudicating Construction and Engineering Disputes, Matthew Molloy and Jonathan Cope

Arbitration

 - The Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (“New York Convention”)

 - SI No. 26 of 1954 - Arbitration Act, 1954
 - SI No. 1 of 2010 - Arbitration Act - UNCITRAL Model Law included

General Reading

 - SCSI - Alternative Dispute Resolution Information Paper 1st Edition
 - Ministry of Justice, UK - Scotts Schedule

"Never go to law on a matter of principle, only hard cash" - Max W. Abrahamson

Electrical Works

Bodies

 - Safe Electric - Find a Registered Electrical Contractor

Reading

 - National Rules for Electrical Installations, Fourth Edition, ET 101:2008. (Incorporating Amendment No. 1: ET101:2008/A1:2011 and technical decision No. TC2-12-01 and other minor additions/corrections by Electro-Technical Council of Ireland
 - I.S. 3217:2013+A1-2017 - Emergency lighting installations
 - I.S. 3218:2013+A1:2019 - Fire alarm installations

Energy Related Design and Upgrading Works

Energy Related Upgrades
 -S.R. 54:2014/A2:2022 - S.R. 54:2014&A2:2022 - Code of practice for the energy efficient retrofit of dwellings

Embodied Energy Calculations
 - BS EN 15804:2012+A1:2013 - Sustainability of construction works. Environmental product declarations. Core rules for the product category of construction products
 - BS EN 15978:2011 - Sustainability of construction works. Assessment of environmental performance of buildings. Calculation method

"What can't be cured, must be endured."

Furniture

 - Code of Practice for Fire Safety of Furnishings and Fittings in Places of Assembly (Furniture)

 - I.S. EN 527-1:2011 - Office furniture, worktables and desks
 - I.S. EN 527-2:2016+A1:2019 - Office furniture - Work tables - Part 2: Safety, strength and durability requirements

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

 - Directive 2016/679 - General Data Protection Regulation 

Health and Safety Laws and Regulations

• SI No. 10 of 2005 - Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005
  
  
• Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007 to 2020;
• S.I. No. 732 of 2007,
• S.I. No. 176 of 2010,
• S.I. No. 445 of 2012,
• S.I. No. 36 of 2016,
• S.I. No. 70 of 2016,
• S.I. No. 370 of 2016, and
• S.I. No. 2 of 2020.
  
  
• S.I. No. 291 of 2013;
• Guide to Homeowners, Getting Construction Work Done Safely, by the HSA
• Guide for Contractors and Project Supervisors, by the HSA
  
  
• Asbestos - Health and Safety Authority Guidance Document Website

Where to elect there is but one,
'Tis Hobson's choice—take that, or none.
 - Thomas Ward, 1853

Incoterms

  - Incoterms, widely-used terms of sale, are a set of 11 internationally recognized rules which define the responsibilities of sellers and buyers. Incoterms specify who is responsible for paying for and managing the shipment, insurance, documentation, customs clearance, and other logistical activities. 

 - Incoterms® rules

"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires." - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Amateurs argue tactics, professionals argue logistics - aphorism from the military.

Legal Services

 - Law Society of Ireland - Find a Solicitor
 - Law Society of Ireland

Intellectual Property (IP)

 - Intellectual Property Office of Ireland
 - Intellectual Property Office of Ireland - Trademark Search

Liability

 - Civil Liability Act 1961 - Colloquially 1% Rule (Section 12)

Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

 - SCSI Guide to Life Cycle Costing Guidance Note
 - ICMS: Global Consistency in Presenting Construction Life Cycle Costs and Carbon Emissions 3rd edition, November 2021
 - ISO 15686-5:2017 Buildings and constructed assets — Service life planning Part 5: Life-cycle costing
 - Crave Zero

Measured Surveys and Building Information Modelling (BIM)

Laser/Point Cloud Scanning Surveys

 - BIM Forum
 - BIM Forum Level of Development (LOD) Specification

 - ISO 19650 - Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works, including building information modelling (BIM) — Information management using building information modelling

"Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Oscar Wilde

Multi-Unit Developments (Apartments/Flats/Duplexes, etc.)

Bodies

 - Residential Tenancies Board (RTB)
 - RTB Dispute Resolution Services

Management

 - Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011
 - A Consumer Guide to Apartment Ownership Under the Multi-Unit Developments (MUD) Act 2011

Renting

 - S.I. No. 462/2009 - Housing (Standards For Rented Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2009
 - S.I. No. 137/2019 - Housing (Standards For Rented Houses) Regulations 2019

Planning and Building Control, Laws and Regulations

Planning

 - SI No. 30 of 2000 - Planning and Development Act 2000
 - SI No. 34 of 2024 - Planning and Development Act 2024

 - SI No. 600 of 2001 - Planning and Development Regulations 2001

Building Control

 - SI No. 3 of 1990 - Building Control Act 1990
 - SI No. 21 of 2007 - Building Control Act 2007 - Amendments and Registration of Architect, Building Surveyors, and Quantity Surveyors

 - Register of Surveyors
 - Register of Architects

 - SI No. 305 of 1991 - Building Control Regulations 1991
 - SI No. 306 of 1991 - Building Control Regulations 1991

 - Building Regulations, Technical Guidance Documents (TGD) A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M.

 - SI No. 9 of 2014 - The Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (BCAR)
 - Code of Practice for Inspecting and Certifying Buildings

Plumbing and Heating

• S.R. 50-1:2021 - Water based heating systems in dwellings
• S.R. 50-2:2012 - Thermal solar systems 
• S.R. 50-3:2021 - Water supply for domestic use within dwellings and their curtilages
• S.R. 50-4:2021 - Heat pump systems in dwellings

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death" - Leonardo Da Vinci

Project Procurement and Management

 - RIAI - Contact to access All the RIAI Contracts

 - How Big Things Get Done, The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration, by Bent Flyvbjerg with Dan Gardner
 - Built to Fail, why construction projects take so long, cost too much, and how to fix it., by Todd R. Zabelle
 - The Lean Six Sigma Black belt handbook, tools and methods for process acceleration - Frank Voehl, H. James Harringto, Chuck Mignosa, Rich Charron
 - The Procurement Models Handbook, by Andrea Cordell and Ian Thompson

 - The Purchasing Chessboard, 64 methods to reduce costs and increase value with suppliers, by Chistian Schuh, Joseph L. Raudabaugh, Robert Kromoser, Michael F. Strohmer, Alenka Triplat, Jim Pearce
 - Profit from procurement, add 30% to your bottom line by breaking down silos – Alex Klein
 - A. T. Kearney's Seven Steps for Strategic Sourcing

 - BS ISO 22058:2022 - Construction procurement. Guidance on strategy and tactics
 - THE CONSTRUCTION PLAYBOOK Government Guidance on sourcing and contracting public works projects and programmes
 - Public Procurement Rules of the Road Navigating Public Tendering in Ireland and Northern Ireland a €90 Billion Market, Peter Brennan and Joanne Gillen, ISBN 9780993171673

"A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell."- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Property Law

Bodies

 - Law Society of Ireland
 - Registry of Deeds
 - Land Registry

Reading - Title

 - SI No. 27 of 2009 - Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009
 - Land Direct - Mapping, titles, etc.

Reading - Forestry / Planting

 - Circular 5 of 2025 - Using existing Felling licences for Clearing Windblown forests - 18 February 2025 - Thinning Licences; Storms Darragh and/or Éowyn

 - S.I. No. 374/2024 - European Union (Invasive Alien Species) Regulations 2024

Products

Metal fencing systems:
 - Clipex Fencing and Stockyards
 - FETRA Fencing

"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them." - Tiberius

Public Procurement Laws, Regulations and Guidance - Europe

 - 1971/305/EEC - Procedures for award of public WORKS contracts
 - 1977/62/EEC - Procedures for Award of Public SUPPLY Contracts
 - 1977/249/EEC - To facilitate the effective exercise by lawyers of freedom to provide services
 - 1980/767/EEC - Procedures for Supply Contracts
 - 1988/295/EEC - Public Supply Contracts, Amends 1977/62/EEC
 - 1989/440/EEC - Public Works Contracts, Amends 1971/305/EEC
 - 1989/665/EEC - Review procedures Public Works and Supply
 - 1990/531/EEC - Procurement Water, Energy, Transport
 - 1992/13/EEC - Procurement Procedures, Water, energy, transport, telecom
 - 1992/50/EEC - Procurement Procedures, Public Service Contracts
 - 2001/23/EC - Employees Rights etc.
 - 2004/18/EC - procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts
 - 2005/36/EC - Recognition of professional qualifications
 - 2007/66/EEC - Improving the effectiveness of review procedures concerning the award of public contracts
 - 2009/81/EC - Works, Services, Goods - defence and security
 - 2009/138/EC - Insurance and Reinsurance
 - 2014/910 - electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC
 - 2014/23/EU - Concession Contracts
 - 2014/24/EC - 2014 EU Directive on Public Procurement
 - 2014/25/EU - Water, energy, transport, postal, repeals 2004/17/EC
 - 2014/833/EU - Restrictive Measures, Russia
 - 2022/576/EU - Restrictive Measures, Russia - amends 2014/833
 - 2022/1031 - International Procurement Instrument (IPI)
 - 2022/2560 - Foreign subsidies distorting the internal market (FSR)
 - 2023/1441 - Regulations for 2022/2560 - FS-PP in accordance with the FSR Annex and Suitability Assessment Questionnaire Page on CWMF

Public Procurement Laws, Regulations, Guidance - Ireland

Irish Legislation/Regulations/Guidance

 - SI No. 22/1995 - Ethics in Public Office Act 1995
 - SI No. 35/2001 - Ethics in Public Office Act 2001

 - SI No. 14/2002 - Competition Act, 2002
 - SI No. 131/2003 - European Communities (Protection of Employees on Transfer of Undertakings) Regulations 2003
 - SI No. 329/2006 - Award of Public Authorities' Contracts Regulations 2006
 - SI No. 50/2007 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Regulations 2007
 - SI No. 130/2010 - Public Authorities' Contracts Review Procedures Regulations 2010
 - SI No. 131/2010 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Review Procedures Regulations 2010
 - S.I. No. 151/2011 - European Union (Energy Efficient Public Procurement) Regulations 2011
 - SI No. 62/2012 - European Union (Award of Contracts relating to Defence and Security) Regulations 2012
 - SI No. 580/2012 - Late Payment in Commercial Transactions Regulations 2012
 - SI No. 30/2014 - Freedom of Information Act 2014
 - SI No. 192/2015 - Public Authorities' Contracts Review Procedures Amendment Regulations 2015
 - SI No. 193/2015 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Review Procedures Amendment Regulations 2015
 - SI No. 284/2016 - Award of Public Authority Contracts Regulations 2016
 - SI No. 286/2016 - Award of Contracts by Utility Undertakings Regulations 2016
 - S.I. No. 646/2016 - European Union (Energy Efficiency) (Amendment) Regulations 2016.
 - SI No. 203/2017 - Award of Concession Contracts Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 326/2017 - European Union (Award of Concession Contracts) (Review Procedures) Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 327/2017 - European Communities (Public Authorities' Contracts) (Review Procedures) (Amendment) Regulations 2017
 - SI No. 234/2018 - Rules of the Superior Courts (Review of the Award of Public Contracts) 2018

Circulars

 - Circular 40/2002: Public Procurement Guidelines – revision of existing procedures for approval of certain contracts
 - Circular 33/2006: Construction Procurement Reform – public works projects and engagement and payment of construction consultants
 - Circular 4/2008: Construction Procurement Reform – public works projects and engagement and payment of construction consultants
 - Circular 6/2010: Construction Procurement Reform – The new capital works management framework
 - Circular 7/2010: Construction Procurement Reform - Construction Contracts and Conditions of Engagement Approval
 - Circular 10/2010: Facilitating SME Participation in Public Procurement
 - Circular 7/2013: Construction Procurement Reform - Construction Performance Bonds
 - Circular 10/2014: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement
 - Circular 1/2016: Construction Procurement - Procurement of Public Works Contracts
 - Circular 8/2018: Construction Procurement Reform - Sectoral Employment Orders and Comparative Cost of Tender Exercise
 - Circular 10/2018: Construction Procurement Reform - Amend Thresholds for CF6
 - Circular 20/2019: Environmental and Social Considerations
 - Circular 24/2019: Update for Public Spending Code (PSC), Use of PPPs, etc.
 - Circular 5/2022: Construction Procurement Reform: Professional Indemnity on Public Works Contracts
 - Circular 5/2023: Initiatives to assist SMEs in Public Procurement - Thresholds, etc.
 - Circular 9/2024: Reporting on the Use of Centralised Arrangements

Thresholds

 - Public Procurement Thresholds – 11 December 2023
 - Revision of EU Thresholds applicable from 1 January 2024

Other Procurement Links

 - Capital Works Management Framework (CWMF)
 - Public Supply of Goods and Services, Request for Tender and Contracts Templates

 - Green Public Procurement (GPP)
 - Code of Practice on the Governance of State Bodies (2016) 

 - Buyer Zone - Irish Government Procurement

- Herbots Standstill Calculator

Public Procurement - United Nations

 - UNCITRAL Model Law on Public Procurement 

"Everytime you spend money, you cast a vote for the type of world you want" - Anna Lappe, 2003

Quality Control

 - Construction Products Regulation (CPR - Regulation (EU) No 305/2011 )
 - Questions and Answers related to Brexit and CPR - here
 - Construction Products Regulation (CPR) Information Note

"To study and not think is a waste, to think and not study is dangerous." - Confucius

RISK

 - Risk Management, by Max W. Abrahamson
 - Mega Project Management, Lessons on Risk and Project Management from the Big Dig, by Virginia A. Greiman
 - Project Risk and Opportunity Management, The Owner's Perspective, by Agnar Johansen, Nils O. E. Olsson, George Jergeas and Asbjorn Rolstadas
 - Risk and Insurance in Construction, Nael G. Bunni and Lydia B. Bunni
 - BS ISO 31000:2018. Risk management — Guidelines

"He who has a why, can bear almost any how." - Fredrick Nietzsche

Teamwork and Communication

• The five dysfunctions of a team - Patrick Lencioni
• Never Split the Difference, Negotiating as if your life depends on it, by Chris Voss
• The Motive, why so many leaders abdicate their most important responsibilities, a leadership fable, by Patrick Lencioni
• The Starfish and the Spider. The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations - Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom.

"O Lord let my words be gracious and generous today, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." - Unknown