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SSI: Activities
ISK. The most generous support-
ers have been the Research Fund
(Rannís) and the Flousing Fund
(íbúðarlánasjóður).
The education establishment
within the industry has used the
facilities of the Centre as it has been
developing, and since last autumn
all practical courses for the Builder’s
Educational Society (Menntafélag
Byggingariðnaðarins) and the
Education Council of Metal Workers
(Fræðsluráð málmiðnaðarins) have
been held there.
The Utilities Society of lceland
awards annual prizes for outstand-
ing building utilities. The goal of
this recognition is to further quality
consciousness in people in this field
and contribute to the development
of utilities through better workman-
ship, better service routes, and bet-
ter materials. Last but not least, this
recognition is intended to encourage
designers and tradesmen to better
themselves and avail themselves of
further education within the utilities
industry. In assessing the qual-
ity of air conditioning and heating
systems it is important that a listing
of individual machinery, and their
operation works is created. A report
by the contractor is also required
as to how this machinery should be
adjusted and tested as described
in the magazine Lagnafréttir, no 29.
and in The Handbook of Building
Utilities.
The SSI supports research by
renting facilities to specialists and
students.
SSI takes an active part in for-
mulating research projects into the
quality and development of defined
aspects of the building industry
connected to building utilities. SSI
directs this research to special-
ists. An example of this research
is a study regarding the need to
introduce standards in methodol-
ogy and materials in the utilities
industry. SSI is working towards a
similar quality control system as is
in use in Scandinavia. In this way
SSI seeks to influence the quality
consciousness of those in this field.
SSI intends to become a recognised
approval agency in the field of build-
ing utilities. A quality committee
working according to rules approved
by SSI is doing this work. The qual-
ity committee appoints a group of
specialists in charge of quality con-
trol, each in his field.
In order to be permitted to
carry out quality control, SSI has to
establish a system of quality control
and be recognized by the Legal
Approvals Office (Löggildingarstofa).
SSI: Goals
• Support research by renting facili-
ties.
• Support research in building utili-
ties.
• To become a recognised quality
control body in building utilities.
• To formulate a research program
and research projects.
• To start preparations for a qual-
ity control system for the building
utilities industry.
• To start preparations for being rec-
ognised by the Legal Approvals
Office (Löggildingarstofa) by for-
mulating working methods.
With this development in the
field of building utilities the inter-
ested parties consider that a timely
increase in the quality of building
utilities will rise considerably during
the next decade. ■
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