Your building materials in the NBS specifications are even more important because of WKB
From 2021, the WKB (Quality Assurance for Construction Act) will come into effect. This new law should better protect construction consumers, improve construction quality and reduce failure costs. The contractor in particular will notice this in the construction process. Manufacturers of building materials can support the contractor by taking a number of things into account.
The WKB has changed a number of rules that concern:
Liability after completion
Supplement to the duty to warn
Obligation to provide information regarding security / insurance of the contractor
Delivery or consumer file
Warning obligation for extended withholding of the deposit at the civil-law notary (the 5% rule)
Supplement to the duty to warn
In the specifications (the contract between client and contractor) the work description indicates how a building material must be applied during construction. Due to the addition to the warning obligation from the WKB, it is even more important for the contractor that the correct processing method and building materials are included in the specifications. This allows a contractor to better check and assess whether an error has been made in the specifications regarding the method of applying the building material and to report this to the construction consumer in accordance with the legal obligation. By having your building materials included in the NBS specification system, they are correctly included in the specification. In the first place, this mainly prevents errors. In the unlikely event that mistakes are made during construction, the contractor will quickly discover this with the NBS specifications as a control instrument.
In the first place, this mainly prevents errors. In the unlikely event that mistakes are made during construction, the contractor will quickly discover this with the NBS specifications as a control instrument.
Delivery or consumer file
Under the WKB, the contractor is legally obliged to deliver a file upon delivery. What exactly must be included in the file is not regulated by law. In any case, the file must contain drawings and calculations of the building and the associated installations and a description of the materials, installations and functions used. Including information about the use and maintenance of the structure.
The client needs this file in order to be able to obtain a commissioning permit on the basis of the Housing Act when it is completed. If NBS specifications are included in the delivery file, a commissioning permit can be granted more easily. The so-called 'linked data specification' has been included in the NBS specifications, with which information about the building materials used by manufacturers can be consulted with one click.