The Scottish Building Standards Forum

The Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA) and the Scottish Association of Building Standards Managers (SABSM) meet regularly to promote common interpretation and administration of the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations. This series of meetings, in what is known as the Building Standards Forum, brings together Senior Council and Scottish Executive Officials three or four times each year to resolve difficulties in the operation of the Building Standards system which require changes in practice rather than changes in legislation. It also provides an opportunity for consolidation of representations from industry, commerce and the building professions on problems of general concern; anyone wishing to make such representations should in the first place approach either the Scottish Building Standards Agency or the Scottish Association of Building Standards Managers.

The minutes of the meeting and occasional information papers agreed by the Forum are distributed to all Building Standards offices. Accordingly, the Forum, provides both a "trouble shooting" mechanism and a channel of communication on the operation of the legislation.