In Ukraine, there are 109 DBN, 23 GBN, 45 SNiP and 17 recommended SN, that is, a total of 194 documents. 75% of them require revision. When and how will builders start working under the new rules?
Changes to the regulatory framework for construction began back in 2006, when a number of regulatory legal acts were adopted aimed at implementing the provisions of the Council of Europe Directive in Ukraine.
Currently, Ukraine has actually already defined two branches of standardization: national and European. However, almost a third of the Eurocodes in the EU have already been amended, which are not harmonized in Ukraine, other Eurocodes will be adjusted in the next 2-3 years, that is, in the near future we will also need to revise them. The number of standards for construction products adopted in Ukraine is also insufficient.
According to the most optimistic forecasts, the process of adopting the new Law “On Basic Requirements for Structures, as well as Conditions for Placing Construction Products on the Market” and relevant subordinate regulatory legal acts, which, by the way, will be quite a lot – according to the average estimate, it is about several dozen documents, will take several years. But, according to experts, otherwise this system will not work.
State and industry building codes have been developed, approved and registered, and changes to them come into force no earlier than 90 days from the date of their registration and publication, and the actual design of facilities, depending on their complexity, can also take up to one year. Therefore, we will be able to see the first changes on real facilities only in a few years.
“Systemic changes in construction legislation can be expected only after the introduction of new principles of standardization in the vast majority of DBNs. Provided that the current levels of budget funding for standardization work in construction are maintained, it will take at least four to five years,” summarizes Olga Solovey, founder of the Ukrainian Real Estate Club (URE club).
“If we ignore the ongoing process of development and construction, then, of course, the new norms will bring positive changes and make projects more European,” says Oleksandr Pan, founder of Spang Capital. “We must strive to make commercial and residential projects accessible to everyone, both for mothers with babies and for people with special needs. And many objects were implemented with this in mind on our own, even before the adoption of the new DBNs. But now this will be enshrined in law.”
However, there are a number of technical nuances regarding implementation, as well as the complexity of interpreting the wording, the expert notes. In addition, there are areas where changes have not yet reached.
“The new regulations are a step forward, but businesses make many decisions in favor of customer comfort and business efficiency, and it is important that the regulations do not contradict business goals,” Pan concludes.
Based on materials from BuildPortal
