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WHY CANNOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BE A QS.

John Peckham

It would appear that the IET EAS document now requires a QS to be an NVQ qualified electrician.

In the same way a building surveyor needs to be professionally qualified person who does not need to be a bricklayer but needs to know how bricks should be laid why cannot a professionally registered electrical engineer with an 18th Edition Qual. and C and G 2391 with maybe a Level 4 2396 design qualification be a QS?

The so called competent person schemes do not register electricians. They only register “enterprises” which have to have a single assessed person who is responsible for the technical standards in the company. It would appear a spotty faced youth with an NVQ 3 with minimal experience can be a QS but a Charted Engineer with decades of experience cannot be?

Before you ask I was the NICEIC PDH and  QS  for my own company for 15 years up until last year.

I would be interested in your views? 

 

 

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    “Why can’t a doctor be a nurse” may be a similar consideration, but there is much that stands in the way to achieve this. Application would need to be made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council and they may point out gaps in essential training requirements. I guess a definite route was not provided to facilitate what is likely to be a relatively rare option. 
    Similarly, it may be that a route from electrical engineer to installation electrician is not a usual one but happily there is a clearly defined path should an engineer wish to pursue it. He will have to undertake a NVQ L3 plus AM2 to achieve minimum qualification status. I would say fair enough to that.
    JPs question actually related to the qualification requirements of a QS. Requiring them to be NVQ L3 is probably fair for most circumstances but I can see no justification for preventing a person with JPs qualifications and experience  in performing that role providing the bolt-on qualifications of 18th Edition and 2391 are in place. 
    Like the doctor could provide competent managerial oversight for a cohort of nurses, so an electrical engineer could provide similar to a cohort of electricians. 
    Needs re-thought methinks.
     

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    “Why can’t a doctor be a nurse” may be a similar consideration, but there is much that stands in the way to achieve this. Application would need to be made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council and they may point out gaps in essential training requirements. I guess a definite route was not provided to facilitate what is likely to be a relatively rare option. 
    Similarly, it may be that a route from electrical engineer to installation electrician is not a usual one but happily there is a clearly defined path should an engineer wish to pursue it. He will have to undertake a NVQ L3 plus AM2 to achieve minimum qualification status. I would say fair enough to that.
    JPs question actually related to the qualification requirements of a QS. Requiring them to be NVQ L3 is probably fair for most circumstances but I can see no justification for preventing a person with JPs qualifications and experience  in performing that role providing the bolt-on qualifications of 18th Edition and 2391 are in place. 
    Like the doctor could provide competent managerial oversight for a cohort of nurses, so an electrical engineer could provide similar to a cohort of electricians. 
    Needs re-thought methinks.
     

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