Independent Principal Designer and CDM advisor services across the full project lifecycle. We help Clients, Designers and Principal Contractors discharge their duties under CDM 2015 and the Building Safety Act 2022, with experienced, hands on support from day one.
Applies to every construction project, however small. Duties fall on Clients personally as well as on the project team.
The Building Safety Act 2022 and its Building Regulations changes have layered new dutyholder roles on top of CDM 2015. For Higher Risk Buildings, the Building Safety Regulator now sits in the middle of design, construction and occupation.
Even on non HRB projects, every Client, Designer and Contractor now has to demonstrate competence, manage change control and produce the golden thread of building information. We help you do that without slowing the programme.
Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor duties under the new Building Regulations, in addition to the CDM equivalents. We map both sets onto your project team.
Gateway 1, 2 and 3 submissions to the Building Safety Regulator for residential HRBs over 18m or 7 storeys. Planning to occupation with no surprises.
Documented competence for each dutyholder, including organisational capability. The standard the BSR expects, prepared in advance rather than scrambled for at Gateway 2.
A structured, accessible record of design decisions, changes and as built information that follows the building into occupation. We set the structure your team can maintain.
Procedures for identifying and reporting safety occurrences during design and construction of HRBs, in line with the BSR's reporting regime.
Notifiable, major and minor change processes under the new regime. We build the workflow so design changes do not stall the programme or trigger a BSR rejection.
Every role under CDM 2015 carries personal duties. These are the failures that most often trigger HSE intervention or hold up practical completion.
Failure to appoint a Principal Designer and Principal Contractor in writing, or to allow adequate time and resource for planning, sits with the client personally.
Contractors arrived on site with no Pre Construction Information pack. The HSE issued a Prohibition Notice and the programme slipped by weeks.
A designer specified a detail that could only be built by working at height with no fall protection. Personal duty under Regulation 9 was breached.
An HSE inspector arrived and asked for the CPP. The site manager could not produce a current version. Improvement notice and reputational damage followed.
On a domestic refurb without a written agreement, the designer automatically inherits the client duties. Surprise liability for the design practice.
Practical completion was delayed because the H&S File for the future occupier could not be produced. Retention payments were held back.
We take on the statutory Principal Designer role on your project. Pre Construction Information, design risk management, coordination with the Principal Contractor and Health & Safety File on completion.
If you are the Client, we help you discharge your CDM duties properly. Notifications to HSE, written appointments, suitable arrangements and welfare requirements.
Sector specific PCI tailored to the project, the site and the existing structure so contractors price the risk accurately and arrive on site with the right plan.
Independent review of the Principal Contractor's CPP against the project's risk profile, with practical feedback rather than a tick box markup.
We facilitate design risk workshops with the project team so risks are eliminated, reduced and clearly communicated in line with the principles of prevention.
A clean, structured H&S File handed to the client at completion so the future owner, occupier and maintainer have what they need to operate the building safely.
From single building refurbishment through to multi phase data centre construction and fit out, we scale Principal Designer and CDM Advisor support to match the project.
The earlier we are involved, the cheaper the risks are to design out. 20 minutes with a senior CDM consultant, no obligation, no hard sell.
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