Prior to your building surveyor applying for your build permits with the local council the following checks must be verified:
- Client-owner information and contract signed
- Legal documents and certification checks
- Government property information and overlays
- Local council residential requirements
- Civil works foundation and footing for slab/floor checks
- Architectural design schematic checks
Below are lists of checks which your building surveyor will verify with the owner, builder and designer.
Client-owner information:
- Owner details: name, email, phone, postal, profession, dependents.
- Property history & future legacy
- Building purpose and occupant use
- Expectations: cost and length of build?
- Owner/builder insurance or nominated builder insurance
- Names and contact details of build team
- Permission to engage with builders and designers autonomously
- Signature to retain client/build information for 10 years
Legal documents and certifications:
- Overlays (bushfire, heritage, indigenous, etc)
- Site plans
- Geotechnical report
- Soil certification report with address nominated
- BAL assessment report
- Town planning permit
- Residential witholding tax
- Building surveyor application form
- Footing / slab design
- Structural computations
- Certificate of compliance
- Energy report
- Land ownership title (contract of sale if not in owners name)
- Transfer of land (verifying ownership)
- Cost of works certificate
- Owner-builder permit (for +$16k works)
- Registered builder warranty insurance, including: date span, cost of works matches,
- Evidence of build funds
- Payment of surveyor %1 of total build cost
- Copy of building contract (owner name same as land deed)
- Build over easement consent (water authority or council)
- Protection work forms 7 & 8
- Request for partial compliance / excemption to building regulations letter / performance solution
- Building appeals board approvals
- Legal point of discharge (stormwater)
- Easement locations (zoning)
- Covenants
- 173 agreements (pre-contract developer requirements)
- Building envelope
Government property & overlay information:
- Sitting maters (overlays, covenents, part 5 Build Regs VBA)
- Planning permit endorsed plans
- Planning permit conditions
- Bushfire attack level
- Septic sewer approval
- Infrastructure levy (VBA practice note 54)
- Developers approval
Residential (local council) preliminary checks:
- building height / stories
- street setback
- siting coverage
- side and rear setback
- wall and boundaries
- front fence height
- fence on boundaries
- fence within street intersection
- permeability
- parking
- existing windows
- existing north facing windows
- daylight to habitable rooms
- overshadowing
- overlooking
- private open space
- garden space required
- verandahs / pagodas / etc
Civil works foundation & footing for slab/floor preliminary checks:
- soil classification
- slab dimensions matches floor plans
- dpeth as per soil report
- root barriers
- steel rebar reinforcement
- re-entry bars / fixings for footings
- penetration locations
- vapour barrier
Architectural schematic prelimary checks:
- correct address / geo marker
- site plan / floor plan
- all existing buildings show on site
- elevations
- allotment dimensions
- boundary setbacks
- FRL for boundary properties
- sectional drawings
- plans to scale
- azimuth
- distance to nearest street corner
- adjoining neighbors setback
- timber schedule
- window schedule
- area for each room
- pier schematics
- site survey plan
- energy (6 star) plans correspond
- wind category nominated
- site drainage shown
- insulation details
- septic and rain drain
- retaining wall design
- plumbing joints for reactive soil sites
- beam sizes
- lintel sizes
- bracing shown
- roof pitch nominated
- storm water downpipes shown
- carport / garage / shed / construction material storage?
- stair rise/going dimensions, e.g. Rise=115-190 / Going=240-355
- garage step down
- required sanitary facilities
- ceiling height: 2.4m(min) / Kitchen 2.1m(min)
- smoke detectors
- removal hinges for WC
- mechanical ducted ventilation (WC, laundry, bathroom)
- electrical lighting with wattage
- waterproofing in wet areas
- fire place details
- chimney height
- party wall details
- acoustic seperation details
- cladding details & specs (foam, hebel, steel cement sheet, etc)
- pavement fall
- subfloor ventilation
- skylight from boundary
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