Plain-English notes on the standards and regulations an Irish design pack is read against — and the document-quality gaps that most often turn up when it isn't.
How the TGDs relate to the Building Regulations, why "deemed to satisfy" is not the same as "compliant", and which editions are current.
Read ↗ Building ControlCommencement Notice, the Assigned Certifier, the inspection plan and the Certificate of Compliance on Completion — the documents that must exist and agree.
Read ↗ Fire safetyWhere the fire strategy, the FSC drawings and the detection-and-alarm design have to line up, and the mismatches that read as gaps.
Read ↗ AccessibilityWhat the 2022 revision of Part M changed for approach, entrances, sanitary facilities and circulation, and how a Disability Access Certificate hangs off it.
Read ↗ EnergyNearly zero-energy building requirements for new dwellings and non-domestic buildings, and the evidence a specification has to carry.
Read ↗ ProcurementHow the design documents have to be consistent with the form of contract they're tendered under — and the clauses that bite at award if they aren't.
Read ↗General information, not advice. These notes summarise widely-published Irish standards and regulations for orientation only. Editions, amendments and effective dates change; always verify against the current official source (the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the National Standards Authority of Ireland, and the Office of Government Procurement) and rely on the judgement of a registered professional. VerifIQ is a software-based reading aid — it surfaces, in the documents' own words, what a registered professional may wish to read closely. It does not certify, sign or opine.