Amendment to the Regulation on Freelance Consulting Engineering Services, Office Registration and Professional Supervision of the Chamber of Geophysical Engineers
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This regulation expands the listed professional services that geophysical engineers may provide under the Chamber’s rules. It adds several building and structural investigation methods, including microtremor analysis, seismic and sonic testing, ground-penetrating radar, pile integrity-related sonic methods, and resistivity-based checks for moisture and corrosion in reinforcement elements. The change mainly affects geophysical engineers, engineering offices, construction-sector clients, and project teams that use these technical services. Firms registered with the Chamber may need to reflect these added service areas in their offerings, professional supervision processes, and documentation.
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Key Changes
- Adds microtremor-based analysis to determine period characteristics of existing buildings
- Adds seismic, sonic, ground-penetrating radar, ultrasonic and related methods for examining structural systems, foundations and piles
- Adds resistivity-based checks for moisture and corrosion in reinforcement and stirrup elements
Obligations
What this law requires
Geophysical engineering offices and self-employed consulting engineers must treat microtremor-based determination of the period characteristics of existing buildings as a regulated Chamber service under the bureau registration and professional supervision framework.
Geophysical engineering offices and self-employed consulting engineers must treat examination of structural load-bearing systems using seismic and sonic methods as a regulated Chamber service under the bureau registration and professional supervision framework.
Geophysical engineering offices and self-employed consulting engineers must treat examination of load-bearing systems and foundations using ground-penetrating/building radar as a regulated Chamber service under the bureau registration and professional supervision framework.
Geophysical engineering offices and self-employed consulting engineers must treat use of ultrasonic and sonic methods to determine seismic velocities in concrete for pile integrity testing as a regulated Chamber service under the bureau registration and professional supervision framework.
Geophysical engineering offices and self-employed consulting engineers must treat resistivity-based determination of moisture and corrosion in reinforcement and stirrup elements as a regulated Chamber service under the bureau registration and professional supervision framework.