{"id":522,"date":"2017-06-01T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/?page_id=522"},"modified":"2024-07-16T12:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T11:24:51","slug":"northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/testing-requirements\/northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Northern Ireland - Building Regulations<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Building Regulations for Northern Ireland, through Technical Booklet F (‘Conservation of Fuel and Power’), stipulate the air tightness testing of buildings. Currently this requirement exists in both Technical Booklet F1 and F2<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Technical Booklet F1<\/a><\/h2>

TB Part F1 - Conservation of fuel and power in dwellings - June 2022<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Technical Booklet F2<\/a><\/h2>

TB Part F2 - Conservation of fuel and power in buildings other than dwellings - June 2022<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Testing Requirements - Dwellings<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tOn each development, an air pressure test should be carried out on three units of each dwelling type or 50 per cent of all instances of that dwelling type, whichever is the less; and at least one of each type should be tested. The dwellings to be tested should be taken from the first completed batch of units of each dwelling type to confirm the robustness of the designs and the construction procedures\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSection 2.62<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tEach block of flats should be treated as a separate development irrespective of the number of blocks of flats on the site.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\tThe dwellings selected for test should be chosen by the district council in consultation with the pressure tester. They should be selected so that about half of the tests on each dwelling type are carried out during the construction of the first 25% of the dwellings of that type. All tests on dwellings in the sample should be reported to the district council including any test failures\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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\n\t\t\t\tIn addition to the remedial work on the dwelling that failed to achieve its design air permeability \u2013\n(a) one additional dwelling of the same type should be tested to increase the overall sample size; and\n(b) other dwellings of the same dwelling type that have not been tested should be examined and, where appropriate, similar remedial measures should be applied.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Dwelling Types<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Technical Booklet F1 is very specific about what a \u2018dwelling type\u2019 is.<\/p>\n

Section 1.2 states:<\/p>\n

To be classed as of the same type, dwellings should:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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  1. be of the same generic form (i.e. detached, semi-detached, end-terrace, mid-terrace, ground-floor flat (including ground-floor maisonette), mid-floor flat (including top-floor maisonette);<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. include the same number of storeys;<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. have the same design air permeability<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. have similar adjacency to unheated spaces such as stairwells, integral garages etc.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. have the same principal construction details;<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. have a similar (i.e. plus or minus 1) number of penetrations, i.e. for windows, doors, flues\/chimneys, supply\/exhaust terminals, waste water pipes;<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. have envelope areas that do not differ by more than 10 per cent.\u201d<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Northern Ireland – Building Regulations Building Regulations for Northern Ireland, through Technical Booklet F (‘Conservation of Fuel and Power’), stipulate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 05:10:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4905,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/522\/revisions\/4905"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bcta.group\/attma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}