We seek to achieve our primary aim which is to promote a culture of continuous improvement and the achievement of best value principles in the delivery of a Local Authority Building Standards service, through a number of ways:

• We maintain, administer, and promote the Scottish Type Approval Scheme (STAS).
• We hold regular management and general meetings to share and discuss issues affecting Building Standards.
• Through ongoing discussion with the Building Standards Division of the Scottish Government.
• We issue guidance notes to members reflecting best practice across the Country.
• We advise COSLA on technical matters relating to service provision.
• In partnership with others, we publish building standards guidance leaflets and national policy documents to assist the general public and the building industry.
• We participate as members of the Consortium of European Building Control (CEBC)
• We engage in partnership working with related regulatory and technical bodies and with member authorities.