Is the new BCAR system what’s best for the country?

Kya deLongchamps gauges reaction to ‘opting out’ of statutory certification and looks at the future of quality assurance for self-builds.

This week self-builders of single dwellings and those extending their homes escaped the bureaucratic misery and potentially onerous costs of the new BCAR S.I 9 building controls introduced only 18 months ago.

Fighting back the recession or not, we have clung to the one-off residential dream here in Ireland.