Bs 5837: 2012

[sloth]

Just had a look on the bsi website and it says 5837:2012 is current, released on 30/04/12. That's in the future, so how can it be current?! To top it off it says 5837:2005 has been revised and withdrawn. To my knowledge 2012 is not in force yet. Have I, and my local council who are requesting '05 still, missed something!!!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

ha ha, sounds like a right mess!

[sloth]

Yep, and I can't download it, apparently there is 'a problem with this document'

No help till Tuesday, ho hum....

[10 Bears]

I know one or two people that have actually been able to download it, so it may be an intermittent glitch.

 

My understanding of BS is that once they are withdrawn, you cannot refer to the old standard in a document ie 2005, as its not the relevant standard. So as long as no one does any works on building sites with trees, or that no-one writes any reports in the next two weeks, then well be fine!

[Dendrophile]

I think 2005 standard is withdrawn on 30th April. The BSI website is unclear and contradictory though. Surely we'd be given time to get to know the revisions before having to use it.