This service is intended for all types of parties: owners, contractors, public institutions, etc.

What you need to know

Luxembourg law stipulates that all partners in a construction project (architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors, etc.) are liable for ten years for defects affecting the shell and 2 years for those affecting the shell (Articles 1792 and 2270 of the Civil Code).

The owner can take out insurance to cover this liability. This covers the building and all construction partners.

However, this insurance can only be taken out if you have a report drawn up by a technical control office.
Vinçotte is your ideal partner for this.

We check:

  • Your plans
  • Your calculation notes
  • Your specifications
  • Your technical data sheets
  • On-site execution
  • Provisional acceptance,

and this applies to both the shell and the shell:

  • Carcass work: load-bearing elements contributing to the stability or solidity of the building, and all other elements integrated with or forming part of them, as well as the elements which ensure that the building is closed, covered and watertight, excluding movable parts.
  • Menu-ouvrage: any element which is only used as a link or decoration for the main structure, as well as any element which does not contribute to the real estate investment and whose renewal is admissible for maintenance or simple refurbishment, without destruction.

ILNAS 105: the Luxembourg standard governing technical inspections

A forerunner in this field, Vinçotte Luxembourg has been accredited to ISO 17020 for its building inspection activities for many years, until now on a voluntary basis, as there were no standards covering building inspection in Luxembourg.

Until 2021, when ILNAS published a national standard to provide a framework for technical inspections.

This national standard has multiple objectives:

  • Define the technical inspection mission;
  • Specify the professional framework and rules;
  • Explain the implications and scope of the mission;
  • to set the framework for mandatory accreditation of technical inspection bodies to ILNAS-EN ISO/IEC 17020.

Since then, Vinçotte Luxembourg has been accredited by OLAS to ISO 17020 for the INS15 - Contrôle technique de la construction domain.