The recent amendments to the U.K Building Regulation legislation created new duty holders and competence requirements across the client team. This included a new duty for the client to appoint a Principal Designer (PD) to plan, manage, and monitor design work and coordinate matters relating to design work, to ensure that, if built, the building complies with the Building Regulations.

This new specific PD role is totally separate from the CDM 2015 PD role. 

We provide both statutory Building Regs Principal Designer or consultant Principal Designer roles, to suit your project design team needs. We have building regulations technical expertise and organisational capability to competently provide both roles.

• Plan, manage and monitor the design work during the design phase
• Coordinate matters relating to the design work so that the eventual building complies with all relevant requirements
• Cooperate with the client, designers and contractors (including the principal contractor, if any) to the extent necessary to ensure that the design complies with all relevant requirements
• Take all reasonable steps to provide sufficient information, including about the eventual building’s maintenance, to make it possible for duty holders to comply with all relevant requirements
• Liaise with the principal contractor (PC) on the project
• Share with the PC any information relevant to the planning, management and monitoring of the building work, and the coordination of building work and design work for the purpose of ensuring compliance with all relevant requirements
• Have regard to PC’s comments that relate to compliance
• If asked by the client, assist the client in providing information to designers and contractors
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure that; the design work carried out by any workers under your control is planned, managed and monitored so that the design complies with all relevant requirements, the design work that persons affecting the design work (such as designers) carry out complies with all relevant requirements, persons affecting the design work (such as designers) cooperate with the whole project team, comply with their duties under the Building Regulations 2010, and consider the effect of their work on the whole project