IQP Inspection / Building Warrant of Fitness
The Heat Pump People fulfil mechanical ventilation and air conditioning (SS9) IQP requirements throughout Canterbury. We conduct all the necessary maintenance on your specified systems and issue you with the relevant reports and 12A form.
If defects are found upon testing, we will issue a quotation and carry out the work to resolve the defects ensuring your building meets compliance standards.
What is an IQP?
An Independent Qualified Person (IQP) is a tradesperson who is registered and qualified to carry out a performance inspection, maintenance, reporting or recommendation for an amendment to a Compliance Schedule.
What is a Compliance Schedule?
A Compliance Schedule is a document issued by Council for a public and commercial building if it contains any specific systems. The Compliance Schedule will contain the systems and features including the inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures needed to keep them in good working order.
What is a BWOF?
A Building Warrant of Fitness (BWOF) is the building owner's signed statement that the requirements of the Compliance Schedule have been fully met. It must have attached to it all the Certificates of Compliance documents issued by the IQP, certifying that the inspection, maintenance and reporting procedures stated in the Compliance Schedule, have been fully complied with during the previous 12 months.
What is a 12A Form?
This form is used as proof that the inspection and maintenance procedures listed in the compliance schedule have been carried out.
The forms are issued by each independent qualified person (IQP) who undertakes inspection and maintenance of your building’s specified systems.
The following systems may form part of your building’s Warrant of Fitness and require IQP testing:
- Toilet extract system servicing multiple facilities
- Ducted ventilation or air conditioning system
- Spray booth ventilation system where the booth forms all or part of the building
- Air-handling system that maintains a differential air pressure in a hospital operating theatre, medical isolation room, quarantine facility or pharmaceutical manufacturing plant
- Cooling-water system incorporating one or more cooling towers or evaporative condensers
- Air-handling system required to function in smoke management or smoke clearance mode during a fire
- System incorporating one or more solid liquid or gas-fired boilers
- System containing one or more electric heating elements mounted in air handling units or ducts located outside the occupied space
- Split air conditioning unit that introduces fresh air into the building
- Dust extract system in a building that is not part of the buildingNew Paragraph
Click here to download PDF guidance on building warrants of fitness & compliance schedules
For all your buildings mechanical ventilation & air conditioning IQP testing, maintenance, repair work & 12A (Certificate of Compliance) requirements contact The Heat Pump People today
03 366 1823.
