UNI-form Building Control

Stay ahead in the fast-changing building-control sector.

In the competitive arena of building control, you need to do all you can to help your officers provide a better service than independent inspectors, while staying ahead of changing building regulations, handling the complexities of the growing number of self-certification schemes, and maintaining a complete register of building applications for your area.

How UNI-form Building Control can help

Your building control officers will be able to manage the building-control workflow more effectively by:

Structuring and streamlining their working practices, from plan checking and fee calculation through to full inspection and visit recording.
Maximising productivity through automation and integrated mapping functions.
Administering building regulations, dealing with contraventions and acting against dangerous structures more efficiently.

As a result of improvements in their efficiency, your authority will be able to keep fees competitive against approved independent inspectors.

Enhanced workflow management through automation

Through a high level of automation that avoids the need to re-key data already entered elsewhere, UNI-form Building Control will speed up many aspects of your officers' jobs and reduce errors. The solution:

Includes a diary function for easy appointment scheduling, which automatically synchronises with the Microsoft Outlook Calendar.
Makes it easy to generate standard and statutory reports and other required documentation.
Enables data submitted under self-certification schemes to be uploaded automatically.
Simplifies and speeds up the recording of inspections of multi-plot developments.

Visualisation with spatial data

Because UNI-form Building Control integrates spatial information with textual data, your building control officers can easily see and map out application boundaries and plot information. All relevant location-based information is shown, making it simple to check important constraints such as landfill sites or sewer information.

Interworking for maximum efficiency

UNI-form Building Control can be integrated with your CRM system to give both your call-handling agents and building control officers access to relevant information from both systems as they need it. And IDOX Public Access automates the publication of building control information to the web so that agents and the public can find the information they need.

You can also actively help citizens cut through the complexity of building-control requirements by implementing IDOX Public Access Expert Systems, an application that helps citizens determine if building regulations apply and whether planning permission is required.

Also, because all UNI-form modules used by your local authority are underpinned by a single database of textual and spatial property information, it's easy to share details across teams and departments. There is especially close interworking with UNI-form Planning, which enables:

Joint creation of building-control and planning records.
Sharing of common information.
Easier access to agreed plans, which makes the inspection process faster and more efficient.

Further details about UNI-form Building Control can be found in our brochure which is available for download.