SER Certification Workshops

08 March 2024

Workshop details

SER Certificate fee changes from 2024

08 December 2023

The SER Board of Directors reviewed the fees charged for certificates at their meeting in October 2023.

Revised Guidance on Checking & Risk Groups and Mentoring & Suspension with mentoring

17 January 2023

SER certificate fee increase from 2023

02 December 2022

The SER Board of Directors has taken the decision to increase certificate fees from 2023.

SER certificate signing update

08 November 2021

Introduction of electronic certificate signing and submission of unsigned certificates with confirmatory signature forms

Application fee changes

17 June 2021

Fees for applications to join the SER scheme are changing from 1 July 2021.

CROSS - Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures

31 March 2021

CROSS has expanded its remit to include reporting on fire and structural safety from 31/03/2021.

Certification Performance Criteria B8.1 and B8.2

29 January 2021

Information regarding the withdrawal of Certification Performance Criteria B8.1 and B8.2.

Monitoring of Certification

14 December 2020

Following recent discussions with the Scottish Government's Building Standards Division, and given the on-going pandemic, it has been agreed that we will continue with the current programme of remote monitoring which replaces our usual face-to-face audits into at least early 2021.

Re-appointment as a Scheme Provider

14 December 2020

We are very pleased to tell you that SER was recently granted Ministerial approval by the Scottish Government to continue in its role as the Scheme Provider for the Certification of Design (Building Structures) scheme for a further six years.