Technical Building Control
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in Technical Building Control
Ensuring the soundness, safety and compliance of your structures during construction is a prerequisite for preventing human and technical risks associated with the project. The slightest malfunction during the design or construction phase can have damaging consequences for the stability of the structure and the safety of its occupants.
Technical building control helps to prevent these various hazards, from the preliminary design phase onwards, and throughout the construction of the structure. This assessment not only ensures that the building is sound, but also that it is resistant to climatic hazards and that it is energy, acoustic and thermal efficient.
Technical building control helps to prevent these various hazards, from the preliminary design phase onwards, and throughout the construction of the structure. This assessment not only ensures that the building is sound, but also that it is resistant to climatic hazards and that it is energy, acoustic and thermal efficient.
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Apave solutions
Apave's teams in Africa are at your side to verify, with the utmost reliability and precision, the solidity and safety of your future structures, and to help you manage all types of technical risks.
We work with you right from the design stage, whatever the nature of the project (construction, renovation, demolition or refurbishment) and whatever the building involved (high-rise buildings, very high-rise buildings, all categories of public buildings, tertiary buildings, industrial buildings, residential buildings, etc.).
We can carry out a technical building inspection (CTC) relating to :
- The soundness of the works (framework, closed and covered areas, equipment, etc.)
- The safety of people in completed buildings (checks on electrical installations, lifts, fire safety, heating installations, distribution and evacuation networks, etc.)
- Verification of technical installations that are inseparably linked to buildings:
- Electricity: high and low voltage,
- Fluids: heating, air conditioning, plumbing, sanitary installations, internal gas installations, etc.
- Fire safety, automatic fire and gas detection, etc.
- Lifting: lifts, goods lifts, escalators, hoists, etc.
- Issuing technical opinions on products and processes
- Technical assistance
In this context, we provide assistance to the project owner for the provisional and final acceptance of works, by contributing to the process and signing the corresponding reports.
We work with you throughout your construction/rehabilitation project to identify any anomalies and implement the necessary measures to remedy them. We use all the general techniques applicable to technical inspections.
At the client's request, the technical inspection can cover any other hazard: thermal or acoustic risks, perfor
Complementary missions
in Tunisia
As defined in standard NT 30.267 (Pr NFP 03-100), Apave Tunisie :
- Carry out additional technical assistance missions requested by the client (energy savings, operation of specific installations, building accessibility for people with reduced mobility, etc.).
- Carries out expert appraisals of existing structures with a view to supervising rehabilitation work.
- Verify conformity of special or innovative processes
- Carries out a wide range of structural tests in compliance with technical rules and standards
- Helps to ensure that the project is consistent with the initial strength and safety objectives, by providing technical opinions in good time throughout the construction phases.
Apave's expertise
| Apave in Africa draws on the 150 years of expertise of the group Apave, a leader in risk management on the international scene. With a large pool of highly qualified experts and multidisciplinary know-how, we are able to work on all types of sites. Our experts also have a perfect command of the regulatory requirements specific to the building and country concerned, so they can guarantee that your construction projects comply fully with the regulations in force locally. As a third-party organisation, we take an impartial and independent look at every aspect of the project, so that we can assess and anticipate all the technical construction risks with the utmost reliability. |
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Your questions
about our CTC missions
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What is a technical building inspection (CTC)?
The purpose of a technical building inspection is to anticipate any technical problems that may arise during the course of a construction project. It checks that the project has been designed and executed in accordance with the rules of the trade. In particular, the CTC aims to check that the structure is sound and that people are safe. The assessment may also cover other types of hazard, such as seismic, thermal or acoustic risks. -
At what stage of the project should a technical building inspection be carried out?
It is essential to involve a technical inspector as early as possible in the construction project. Ideally, the technical inspector should be appointed at the same time as the main contractor. This is the best way of anticipating all technical contingencies and identifying any malfunctions and blockages in the design document, with the utmost reliability and completeness. Apave Afrique will support you, whatever the nature of your project, from the design phase through to handover. -
Why carry out a technical building inspection?
Having a building inspection carried out serves a number of purposes. First and foremost, it is a prerequisite for ensuring the soundness, compliance and durability of your buildings and installations. The certificate issued following the CTC ensures that new buildings comply with environmental, thermal, acoustic, earthquake and disabled access standards. What's more, in many countries and for certain buildings, technical building inspections are a regulatory requirement. It is also often a formality required by insurers. -
For which works should a technical building inspection be carried out?
Technical building inspections can be carried out on all types of structures, including :
- - ERP (establishments open to the public) of all categories
- - Buildings of great or very great height (IGH or ITGH)
- - Tertiary buildings
- - Industrial buildings
- - Residential buildings
- - Infrastructure and engineering structures (wind turbines, maritime structures, railways, etc.)
Thanks to its network of experts and multi-sector know-how, APAVE Afrique can work on all types of structures, whatever the nature of the project.
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When can building regulations be checked in Tunisia?
Building inspections must be carried out as early as the design phase and before any work is started, by examining the design and execution files so that our experts can draw up the Initial Technical Inspection Report (RICT or D0). The technical inspection continues during the construction phase, with site visits right through to acceptance. Before the buildings are put into service and occupied, our experts draw up the Final Technical Inspection Report or D6, to check the state of conservation of a building and assess the risks to users. -
When is a technical inspector compulsory in Tunisia?
Technical inspection is compulsory for new constructions (buildings and civil engineering), constructions for which a declaration of works has been made, constructions for which an application for planning permission has been made and constructions for which an application for permission to work has been made. Apave Tunisie can help you with all these procedures. -
Who controls construction in Tunisia?
In Tunisia, technical building inspections are carried out by technical inspection bodies approved by the Ministry of Equipment, Housing and Infrastructure. Apave Tunisie is the only office accredited by TUNAC in accordance with ISO 17020 for the technical inspection of buildings in Tunisia.
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