fees for our building warrant

In Scotland it is called a building warrant. It is bloody expensive and related to build costs. Our fees are £1380 and we could get a 10% discount if our engineers sign off the design before we submit the application. The general thought is that we will have to do lots of negotiating with the Building Inspectors so this might delay progress unduly. All of us imagine that there will be a few raised eyebrows (a massive understatement) at a turfed roof with no supporting rafters or purlins, posts or beams but we decided to take Ted’s advice that SIPs were intended to be Structural and make them do their designed job...especially as a conical roof is inherently very very strong. Roundhouses really are that good in engineering terms In the USA many SIP built houses simply use them to clad post and beam timber frames (even in roundhouse type structures) but we wanted to ‘ave a go and push the building envelope.