Inspection & assessment
Making buildings work is a complex process. It’s not easy to provide the services for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, ductwork, plumbing, and facilities services, and still deliver the energy and performance efficiencies clients require. For this reason, choosing a building services engineering contractor should never be based on price alone. Commercial competence and technical capability is by far the most important consideration.
To become and remain a member of the Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association (HVCA), an hvacr business must demonstrate it has the competence and capability to deliver the services it offers.
The HVCA operates an independent inspection and assessment regime whereby all members are regularly inspected by BM Trada, an independent third party auditing organisation. The audit covers the following commercial and technical elements:
- Financial standing
- Insurance cover
- Business management
- Fair trading
- Customer relations
- Relationships with sub-contractors
- Managing complaints
- Managing health and safety
- Environmental management
- Investing in the workforce
- Equal opportunities
- Contracts of employment
- Technical ability and quality
- Working practices and standards
- Specifications and other documentation
It is only through such a rigorous inspection and assessment programme that customers and clients are able to confidently rely on an hvac company to deliver their building services engineering needs. In fact, many customers and clients consider HVCA membership to be the key factor in their contractor selection process.
To find out more about Accreditation and Assessment for the hvac industry, visit the HVCA website.
