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Scottish Type Approval Scheme

A customer focused national approval system for house builders and developers. STAS offers approvals of standard building designs prepared by designers and developers of domestic and non-domestic projects in support of building warrant applications in Scotland, and producing real savings in time in the approval process. All local authorities accept a STAS certificate as evidence of compliance with the building standards. No further checks, other than local site conditions, are made for a design that has been approved nationally. This results in faster responses and faster approvals of building projects.

A building warrant application incorporating the approved STAS certificate and drawings must still be made to the local authority in which area the building is to be constructed. However, a STAS approval will avoid applicants having to undergo a full building warrant assessment each time the same building is to be constructed in a different local authority area. That way Architects and Design Engineers can pass on real savings in time and costs.

STAS has special benefits for you by guaranteeing:

  • Consistent interpretation of building standards,
  • A fast track through building standards approval,
  • An agreed performance standard between you and the Lead Authority,
  • A single point of contact with building standards authorities,
  • Confidence in a design assessed by STAS,
  • Checks by the local authority will be confined to site related matters.

Architects, specifiers and builders

Follow STAS Applicant Search link to see which Scottish standard building types hold a current STAS Certificate

To register your STAS Application for a Scottish building Type Approval please contact our STAS Administrator at bob.renton@labss2018.onmicrosoft.com

Please note by completing our form you are formally accepting our Terms and Conditions

 

If you would like to know more about the STAS  contact:

LABSS Technical Director Alan McAulay at labss@labss2018.onmicrosoft.com or the STAS Administrator

 

Submit your STAS  application for standard domestic or non-domestic building design - see link Application Form for STAS

Find out more about:

  • STAS - the scheme - LABSS Information Paper STAS General V6 2021
  • STAS - the scheme - LABSS Information Paper STAS Domestic V6 2021
  • STAS - the scheme - LABSS Information Paper STAS Non-Domestic V6 2021
  • STAS -Terms and Conditions - LABSS Information Paper STAS/04/V1/2015 Terms and Conditions

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