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WHY CANNOT AN ELECTRICAL ENGINEER BE A QS.

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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  • Can I point out possibly exceptional circumstances.

    The Registered Enterprise may never be registered for self certification for Part P and never actually do any domestic installation work.

    It may only do commercial, industrial or agricultural work. or perhaps, more relevant to this discussion, the Registered Enterprise may only ever do electrical inspections and prepare EICRs or undertake electrical installation design work.

     

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  • Can I point out possibly exceptional circumstances.

    The Registered Enterprise may never be registered for self certification for Part P and never actually do any domestic installation work.

    It may only do commercial, industrial or agricultural work. or perhaps, more relevant to this discussion, the Registered Enterprise may only ever do electrical inspections and prepare EICRs or undertake electrical installation design work.

     

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