BUILDING SAFETY COMPLIANCE IN SCOTLAND
Scotland does not run
Gateways
It has no Building Safety Regulator, no Golden Thread duty and no EWS1 process. Borrowing that vocabulary north of the border is a reliable way to signal you have not worked here. We are an Airdrie business and Scotland is where we started.
How building work is approved in Scotland
Building work in Scotland runs through the Building Standards system. A building warrant from the local authority verifier is needed before work starts, and when the work is finished a completion certificate is submitted to the verifier for acceptance.
There are no Gateways and no Building Safety Regulator approving the work. Cladding remediation on existing buildings has its own route, set out further down this page.
For EWI and whole-house retrofit, compliance also means performance: fabric, airtightness, ventilation and moisture considered together. Scottish Government guidance on traditional buildings says a whole-building approach is more appropriate than applying fabric first in isolation. Where it applies, we deliver within PAS 2035.
Standards backed by delivery evidence.
Across our Scottish EWI and retrofit projects, compliance is supported by a combination of Building Standards, approved systems, accredited installation, thermal performance targets and project evidence.
Oxgangs House, Edinburgh
EPC D to B and a target U-value of 0.19, delivered to PAS 2035 and EESSH2.
Magdalene, Bingham and The Christians
Fabric-first EWI across 64 homes, with a ventilation strategy backed by thermal modelling.
Warmworks
Scotland-wide EWI, from pre-installation inspection through Building Warrant submission and completion to handover.
Accreditations and certificates
Installer approvals, system certification and quality schemes, in one place.
The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024
The 2024 Act came into force in January 2025. It gives Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings with unsafe cladding, and it does so at the level of the whole building rather than by gating stages of construction.
Buildings that have been through the process are recorded on the Cladding Assurance Register, so the position on a given building is a matter of public record rather than a private correspondence trail. For an owner or a lender, that is the point.
Single Building Assessments
A Single Building Assessment is the mechanism. One assessment covers the whole building, looks at the external wall construction and the fire risk it presents in the round, and produces the evidence on which remediation decisions are made. It replaces the piecemeal, flat by flat approach that left owners and residents unable to get a straight answer.
What we do here
Facade remediation, external wall insulation and whole house retrofit across Scotland, self delivered with directly employed labour. Our EWI and retrofit work is the foundation of the business, delivered for housing associations, local authorities and private owners, including under the Warmworks framework. Compliance in England, Scottish frameworks we sit on, Scottish projects.
Bring us in before the design is fixed
Early engagement under a PCSA is where the risk comes out of a remediation project. It is also where the programme is won or lost.
SCOTLAND
74 Glencraig Street
Airdrie, North Lanarkshire
ML6 9AS
NORTHERN REGION
Unit 12 Ashburton Park
Trafford Park, Manchester
M17 1EH
SOUTHERN REGION
Unit 3, 362B Spring Road
Southampton
SO19 2PB
Insulated Render Systems (Scotland) Ltd, trading as IRS Construction · Registered in Scotland no. SC441561 · © 2026