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Technical Building Control (CTC)
What are the risks for your company and how can you manage them?
Technical Building Control (CTC) is an essential lever for securing your construction, renovation, rehabilitation or conversion projects in Cameroon.
In the absence of a rigorous technical inspection, your company is exposed to a number of risks:
- Personal risk: falls due to faulty staircases, accidents linked to faulty evacuation systems or alarm systems, smoke poisoning, electrocution, health impact in the event of poor management of asbestos risk, etc.
- Technical and structural damage: failure of load-bearing elements or falling facades, subsidence of floors, total or partial collapse of the building.
- Risks of non-compliance: insufficiently wide exits and safety signs, poorly protected electrical panels, administrative non-compliance (incomplete technical files, lack of CTC opinion)
- Substantial financial costs : additional work to bring the building up to standard, refusal or limitation of insurance cover, interruption or stoppage of work.
- Legal disputes and litigation
By integrating a Construction Technical Inspection (CTC) upstream of the works, during construction and at acceptance, you are opting for proactive risk management.
Do you have any questions about your CTC issues?
Is a CTC a compulsory and truly preventive tool ?
In Cameroon, the regulatory framework for construction is based primarily on insurance and risk prevention obligations, notably through Decree no. 77-318 of August 17, 1977, implementing Law no. 75-15 of December 8, 1975. This makes construction risk insurance mandatory for works of any kind with a value equal to or greater than 100 million CFA francs (comprehensive site insurance and biennial or decennial civil liability).
Although Cameroonian legislation mainly governs the obligation to take out insurance, recourse to the Contrôle Technique des Constructions (CTC ) is an essential step in securing projects, in line with :
- The Spinetta law of January 4 1978, which defines the regulatory missions of the technical inspector
- Article R111-38 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitat, which stipulates that certain structures must be subject to a CTC: ERP, IGH and other structures at specific risk.
A genuine prevention tool, the CTC makes it possible to:
- identify upstream risks likely to affect the solidity of the structure or the safety of people
- Reduce claims
- make it easier to take out a ten-year builder's warranty once work has been completed
Missions carried out by Apave Cameroon
Apave Cameroon helps you secure your projects through its Building Inspection services, and reports on its work in accordance with Article 4 of Standard NFP 03-100.
Inspecting the soundness of structures and inseparable equipment (Mission L)
Mission L aims to guarantee the soundness of buildings by preventing technical hazards linked to design or construction defects that could compromise the strength of structures and inseparable equipment.
This mission covers in particular :
- Foundations
- Framing
- Building envelope
- Technical equipment inseparable from the building
- Networks and private roads (excluding wearing or wearing courses for roadways and pedestrian walkways)
Our services include :
- Analysis of design files and technical documents, with the drafting of an Initial Technical Inspection Report (RICT).
- Examination of execution documents and work in progress, with a formal report
- Site visits and visual inspections, with visit reports.
- Delivery ofa Final Technical Inspection Report (RFCT) detailing our observations and conclusions.
We also adapt our mission torehabilitation, renovation and conversion operations, assessing the compatibility of new work with the condition of existing structures.
Personal safety inspections (SEI)
As anapproved body, Apave Cameroon carries out the regulatory technical inspections required by the French Construction and Housing Code for :
- Établissements Recevant du Public (ERP) - articles R.123-43
- High-rise buildings (IGH), particularly in terms of fire safety and risk prevention - article R.122-16
Our mission covers :
- fire and panic protection measures: fire behavior of building materials and components, insulation, services, partitions and clearances, smoke extraction, alarm systems and emergency resources
- Electrical installations (high current)
- Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems
- Combustible gas and liquid hydrocarbon installations
- Smoke ducts
- Elevators, escalators, moving walkways, automatic doors and gates
- Railings and low windows
Mission SEI is integrated into all phases of your project:
- Critical examination of design files and safety notices to be attached to building permits
- Analysis of execution documents during construction
- On-site visits and visual inspections of structures and installations
- Drawing up the RVRAT (Rapport de Vérification Réglementaire Après Travaux), required prior to the visit of the Safety Commission for the opening of an ERP or the occupancy of a IGH.
Additional services
When the client wishes to prevent hazards not taken into account by the basic missions (L and SEI), Apave Cameroon can carry out additional missions covering, among others :
- Risks related to changes in subsoil characteristics following quarry collapse
- Worker safety on site and during maintenance work covered by the SPS coordination mission
- Verification of compliance of electrical installations, lightning protection and lifting equipment
- Explosion prevention
With Apave Cameroon, you benefit froman independent, rigorous, regulatory-compliant technical inspection service, dedicated to the safety and sustainable performance of your projects.
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Your questions about our CTC missions
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What is the role of the technical inspector?
His role is essential to the smooth running of the CTC:
- Contributes to the prevention of technical risks
- He ensures compliance with the rules of the trade and current regulations.
- At the request of your project owner, and within the framework of the contract between them, he gives his opinion on technical issues.
- Ensures the durability of your buildings by limiting the risk of infrastructure damage
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What action should be taken once the technical inspector's reports have been received?
On receipt of the technical inspector's reports, the project owner must analyze the opinions issued (favorable, with observations, unfavorable or suspended) and the recommendations, in order to identify non-conformities and risks.
If necessary, corrective action must then be taken, such as modifying designs, redesigning structures or bringing them up to technical standards.
The supporting documents submitted then enable us to lift any reservations and issue final opinions. They are essential for :
- Protecting the owner's liability
- Acceptance and operation of the building
- insuring the building
Good to know: in the event of defects detected after the report has been issued, we continue our support for a one-year warranty period, while the builder takes corrective action.
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What is the ten-year builder's warranty?
The ten-year builder's warranty is a compulsory insurance policy that covers serious damage to a building (defects not detectable at the time of acceptance, such as foundation work, framing, roofing, etc.) for a period of 10 years from the date of handover. All builders, both professional and private, are required to take out this insurance.
It applies to new constructions, renovations and extensions to existing buildings.
To obtain this ten-year insurance, the client must be accompanied by an inspection office that has monitored the work and, at the time of acceptance, draws up a final report for the insurer responsible for providing the ten-year construction guarantee.
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