Roche to impose stricter building standards

ARCHITECTS, surveyors and other building professions are to be regulated for the first time under a new bill published yesterday by Environment Minister Dick Roche.

The Building Control Bill will also introduce new standards for house building including new fire and disability access codes.

Detailing the new legislation in Dublin yesterday, Mr Roche said it would be seen “in years to come to be one of the most progressive pieces of consumer law to be brought forward in recent decades”.