August 2026. Planning and architecture offices have two stacks in the folder. VKF fire-protection rules 2015, in force. Next to them, drafts, training slides, notes named BSV 2026. The name sounds as if it already applies. It does not.
The name is not the date
The Association of Cantonal Building Insurers set political consultation for August to November 2026. IOTH approval: March 2027, if the date holds. What belongs in a building application today is the 2015 standard and guidelines. Valid is what sits in the document and what the canton has made binding. Not the file name. Not the training from December.
- ✓Draft, consultation version, slide: set aside until they are law.
- ✓2015 remains until 2026 is in force. The project name does not change that.
- ✓A figure from the draft into the proposal or the fire report: that is the wrong edition.
The same as the Normalie
Engineering firms know the folder with five files. Architecture firms know it for fire, energy, sound. Competence first. Then the title page. Then the page. If the passage is missing: not found. The seven checks apply here too. Only the rulebook has another name.
Leistera does not change the law. It says which edition sits in the folder, and on which page. The specialist signs.