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A building permit and various other certificates/studies are required before the actual construction work can commence. The purpose of this page is to clarify some of the steps that are part of this process.

Disclaimer - procedures change all the time so please double check this process with your local authorities!

l'Etude de sol (soil study)

With regards to buying land, French law dictates that a soil study (G1) is done before ownership changes hands. The G1 is the responsibility of the person who is selling the land and involves soil samples from random plot locations. However, for the construction one needs a more precise soil study (G2) that takes into consideration the dimensional sketch of the building, the type of foundation, and a more comprehensive soil assessment to make sure that the structure is stable irrespective of soil movements (e.g. clay that swells and shrinks). For a more general sense of the soil type in your community there is a government website that provides a geological profile when entering a local address.

PLU (Plan Local d'Urbanisme)

The PLU is a Local Urban Planning Document that lists the constraints of the various building aspects one needs to adhere to (e.g. the colour of the roof, the height of the building, construction distance from terrain boundary, etc). In general a PLU is available at the community's townhall.

Building Permit and Certificates

This project concerns the construction of a single residency of more than 50 m2 but less than 150 m2. Building and Environmental regulations stipulate a sequence of steps which corresponds to the following stages: pre-approval, pre-construction, post-construction

The pre-approval stage:

Une demande de Permis de Construire (Building Permit Application)
Attestation de RE-2020
- A study to determine the Bbio coefficient
- A study to determine the DH coefficient
- A study to determine "l'Impact Carbone Construction" coefficient (IC-construction)
- A compliance study with respect to lighting and windows ratio
- A compliance study with respect to ventilation

The pre-build stage:

In order to get a "Declaration d'Ouverture du Chantier" one needs to submit a Carbon Impact study in terms of the IC-Construction and IC-Energy indicators
- Calcul de l'impact Carbone ENERGIE : impact sur le changement climatique associe aux consommations d'energie primaire en kg eq. CO2/m2
- Calcul de l'impact Carbone CONSTRUCTION: impact sur le changement climatique des produits de construction et equipements et de leur mis en oeuvre en kg eq. CO2/m2

Le maitre d'ouvrage s'engage a etre en mesure, apres la declaration d'ouverture du chantier, de justifier, a leur demande, aux agents de l'Etat habilitees pour le controle des regles de construction, le respect de l'impact maximal sur le changement climatique.

The post-build stage:

When the construction is finished one needs to submit " un Attestation fin de Travaux" which is officially called "un Déclaration attestant l'achèvement et la conformité des travaux (DAACT)"

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