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Building control in five European countries

Visscher, H. (author)

book 1993

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Building regulations in Europe Part II: A comparison of technical requirements in eight European countries

Sheridan, L. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

book 2003

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Building regulations in Europe Part I: A comparison of the systems of building control in eight European countries

Meijer, F.M. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Sheridan, L. (author)

book 2002

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Building control: Private versus public responsibilities

Meijer, F.M. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)

conference paper 2004

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Development of Dutch building control (1982-2003): Towards certified building control

van der Heijden, J.J. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2006

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Technical building regulations in EU countries: A comparison of their organization and formulation

Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)

The purpose of this paper is to compare technical building regulations in European Union (EU) countries. Three research questions are addressed: what are the main differences and similarities? what are the main types of organization and formulation? what are the main trends and developments? The following tasks were carried out in order to...

conference paper 2010

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Certification of compliance with public building regulations

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2005

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Building regulations on fire safety in Europe

Sheridan, L. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2003

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Private sector building control

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2006

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Systems of performance based requirements for housing in Europe

Visscher, H.J. (author), Sheridan, L. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2005

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Building regulations and control in the face of climate range

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author), Itard, L.C.M. (author)

Since a few years the attention for building regulatory systems and enforcement procedures is growing. Various developments in society, politics and the construction industry have influenced changes in the systems of building control in the last 20 years. The influence of climate change and the related demands on buildings will have a very...

conference paper 2010

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Certification of building control in the Netherlands

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2006

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Building regulations from an European perspective

Meijer, F.M. (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)

During the last ten years OTB has studied building regulations in various European countries. Developments in the building regulatory systems are being placed within the context of general trends in the regulatory sciences, particularly with reference to Europeanization studies. Within the regulatory sciences, there is broad consensus about the...

conference paper 2008

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Effective and efficient Building Control

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author), Sheridan, L. (author)

conference paper 2003

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3D Cadastral Lifecycle: An Information Delivery Manual ISO 29481 for 3D Data Extraction from the Building Permit Application Process

Oldfield, Jennifer (author), Bergs, Ronald (author), van Oosterom, Peter (author), Krijnen, Thomas F. (author), Marzabal Galano, Miquel (author)

The lifecycle of a 3D cadastral spatial unit and its associated rights, restrictions and responsibilities is made up of many different parts and substages (Van Oosterom 2013). One part could be the extraction of 3D data from building permit application process. This paper looks at how this process could be coordinated with a number of other...

conference paper 2018

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Building control in Australia; experiences with private sector involvement

Van der Heijden, J.J. (author)

Facing issues with regulatory enforcement through municipal agencies, governments in Australia have reformed the enforcement of public building regulations. As a result, the private sector has been introduced in building regulatory enforcement regimes with differences amongst jurisdictions. In this paper account is given of the present day...

conference paper 2008

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The growing importance of an accurate system of building control

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

Systems of building control have a long history. Technical regulations and control seems to be the subject of an ongoing debate between, on the one hand, those in favour of deregulation and reducing the administrative burden and, on the other hand, new quality demands that require government intervention. Currently in the Netherlands, both sides...

conference paper 2008

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Impact of energy efficiency goals on systems of building regulations and control

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

Considerations of climate change, but also other political and economic reasons urge for the reduction of use of fossil fuels and the minimization of environmental impact by the built environment. The energy saving potential of the building stock is large and considered to be the most cost efficient sector to contribute to the CO2 reduction...

conference paper 2014

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Energy saving goals require reform of building regulations and control

Visscher, H.J. (author), Meijer, F.M. (author)

conference paper 2011

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Building regulations and control in the face of climate change: Overview of the Portuguese situation

Costa Branco De Oliveira Pedro, J.A. (author), dos Santos, C.P. (author)

This paper presents an analysis of the main initiatives implemented in Portugal aimed at improving the environmental performance of buildings. The study is focused on the building regulatory system. However, to describe its framework a wider context is analysed for the following reasons: a) strategies and plans on environment and energy...

conference paper 2011