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The Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument

Publication 2004-09-22

Last updated 2025-01-01

State In force

Jurisdiction Scotland

Department King's Printer for Scotland

Source legislation.gov.uk

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Noise reduction between rooms

Building insulation envelope

Heating system

Insulation of pipes, ducts and vessels

Artificial and display lighting

Mechanical ventilation and air conditioning

Commissioning building services

Written information

Energy Performance Certificates

Metering

Overheating risk

3.28

Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that the risk to the health of the occupants from overheating is reduced.

Energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions

Electric vehicle charging

7.2

Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that provision for the charging of electric vehicles is made where car parking spaces are located within the building or the curtilage of the building.

2A

Every conversion, to which these regulations apply, which—

(a) alters the number dwellings, or the number of building units, in the building,

(b) changes the occupation or use of—

(i) a residential building to any other type of building, or

(ii) a building so that it becomes a residential building,

must meet the requirements of standard 7.2 (electric vehicle charging) in section 7, sustainability, of schedule 5.

Interpretation

In this paragraph “building unit” means a part of a building which is designed or altered to be used separately.

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Heating and hot water – direct emission heating system

6.11

Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that the means by which space within the building is heated or cooled and by which hot water is made available in the building is not by means of a direct emission heating system.

2B

Every conversion, to which these regulations apply, must meet the requirements of standard 6.11 (heating and hot water – direct emission heating system) in section 6, energy, of schedule 5 but conversion of a pre-2024 building must meet those requirements only—

(a) if the conversion involves a change in occupation or use of the part of the building in which an existing direct emission heating system is located, and

(b) in so far as it is reasonably practicable to do so.

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