Ms Sarah Neary:

Just to support Ms Phelan in what she is saying, we probably would have talked about this previously. In order to get a building right, one needs the right products, the right design and the right workmanship. The building regulations set standards around performances for buildings and that affects both the design and the construction aspect of it, and the products used.

The technical guidance documents in some situations give specific explicit guidance for non-complex buildings and they also refer out to standards. As Ms Phelan mentioned, SR325 is the Irish provisions for the use of masonry construction. It is the Irish guide to using the eurocodes, which apply all over Europe, for masonry construction.

In SR325, there are areas around durability and that durability ties back in to the product and the aggregates that go into the product. Everything comes together in SR325, which is a standard published by NSAI, and then the regulations rely on that.