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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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    I have been a member of this forum for eighteen years and an electrician for over twenty years, there has been some big changes in that time.

    Sixteen years ago when I signed up with NAPIT we faxed the part P Notifications to them, then they posted the documentation to the local councils, mainly of whom actually shredded it rather than filing it, I know my local council did.

    Yesterday I migrated from the NAPIT Desk Top certificate software to the new Fast Test software, I downloaded it and used the Desk Top backup files to migrate, but could not quite get it working as it should.

    After a few attempts I got through to the NAPIT IT guys and one of them took control of my PC from his desk in Mansfield using Teamviewer and completed the set up whilst I talked to him on my mobile phone and he explained what he was doing as he literally used my PC.

    You have to remember just how much things have moved on in the last two decades and realise that the electricians who are actually trying to keep up to speed with how things have changed and developed are not working in the way they were twenty years ago, particularly the self employed guys who have to perform every duty including being their own QS.

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    I have been a member of this forum for eighteen years and an electrician for over twenty years, there has been some big changes in that time.

    Sixteen years ago when I signed up with NAPIT we faxed the part P Notifications to them, then they posted the documentation to the local councils, mainly of whom actually shredded it rather than filing it, I know my local council did.

    Yesterday I migrated from the NAPIT Desk Top certificate software to the new Fast Test software, I downloaded it and used the Desk Top backup files to migrate, but could not quite get it working as it should.

    After a few attempts I got through to the NAPIT IT guys and one of them took control of my PC from his desk in Mansfield using Teamviewer and completed the set up whilst I talked to him on my mobile phone and he explained what he was doing as he literally used my PC.

    You have to remember just how much things have moved on in the last two decades and realise that the electricians who are actually trying to keep up to speed with how things have changed and developed are not working in the way they were twenty years ago, particularly the self employed guys who have to perform every duty including being their own QS.

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