Year Of Construction

[ImLostAgain]

Chatting to friends and we were talking about a building in our town and its year of construction. I have always been of the opinion that that was the year a building was completed but half of the company were of the opinion that is was when work on the building commenced.
What say you?

[The Builder]

Generally speaking, for purposes of mortgage/insurance/NHBC, it's taken as when it's completed.

It wouldn't make a lot of sense to cite the date when construction began. The house I'm in now took two of us three years to build. Up until completion, it was just a building site.

[ImLostAgain]

Cheers The Builder. That always made sense to me.

[sddsddean]

Might depend on where you are getting the date from. It was quite common for public buildings in the 19th Century to have a foundation stone (libraries, chapels, hospitals etc). Although not actually part of the foundations, the date on it would be a year or more before completion. Conversely, the houses on my estate were started in 1999, but the estate went on for a couple of years. However, all the ones built after Dec '99 have a little '2000' plaque on them...even the ones built in 2001!