Section6(Scotland)Methods(non-dwellings)
Acknowledgements
Extracts from the following documents are reproduced with permission:
Scottish Executive. Technical Standards for compliance with the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations 1990, as amended. Crown Copyright 2001. ISBN 0 11 497294 X.
Introduction
Methods for demonstrating compliance with The Building Standards Regulations (2002) Part J Conservation of Fuel and Power are set out in The Scottish Building Standards Agency’s Domestic and Non-Domestic Handbooks – May 2005[0] (Section 6), the Scottish Executive’s Technical Standards document[1] and related publications.
This manual describes how the methods described in the Technical Standards document are implemented within the <Virtual Environment> for the assessment of buildings other than dwellings. Paragraph numbers in this manual refer to the Technical Standards document.
The 2005 Section 6 regulations introduced minor revisions to the previous (2002) ‘Part J’ regulations. These revisions have been incorporated into the IES software, though in this document and in the results files some of the Part J terminology has been retained.
An outline of the Section 6 regulations is provided in the Section 6 (Scotland) User Guide. The Technical Standards document should be consulted for a detailed account of the Part J provisions. Copies of the relevant sections are provided with the Section 6 software.
The broad requirements of Section 6 are set out in Regulation 22:
“22.(1) In a building to which this regulation applies, reasonable provision shall be made for the conservation of fuel and power.
(2) This requirement shall apply to all buildings, other than –
(a) a building which is unheated or which has a space heating for protection against frost designed to give a maximum output not exceeding 25 Watts per square metre of floor area; or
(b) unheated parts of a building of purpose sub-group 1A that do not form part of a dwelling.
Routes to compliance are outlined in the section of Section 6 headed ‘Compliance with the Regulations’:
“Without prejudice to any other way of meeting the standards, complying with the provisions that are deemed to satisfy the requirements of the regulations, as given in this document, constitutes compliance.
To satisfy the regulations therefore the design, materials and methods of construction must be at least to the standards set in this publication. The provisions deemed to satisfy the standards are provided for the convenience of designers only if they choose to adopt them. There is no obligation to do so, but if used properly deemed to satisfy solutions must be accepted by the local authority.”
Not all the requirements of Section 6 can be tested in software. However, IES is in the process of developing software covering all requirements that can be so tested.
