Building Control Flashcards
What are restricted activities and who are they carried out by?
Carried out by Building Control Inspectors
- Planning certificates
- Final Certificates
- Checking of Plans
- Inspections
What constitutes a HRB (High Risk Building)?
- 7 + stories
- Or with one floor above 18m
- Containing 2 or more residential units
- If it is a hospital or care home
When must you make building control application to building safety regulator:
- When creating a high-risk building
- Or working on a high-risk building
What are the duties of a Client under Building Control
Client - any person for whom a project is carried out, must:
• Ensure suitable arrangements are made for planning, managing and monitoring the works for compliance with the new Building Regulations.
• Ensure these provisions are maintained throughout the project.
• Must take reasonable steps to ensure any designers or contractors appointed are competent to carry out thier works.
• Give a minimum of two days notice to the approved inspector for works starting.
What are the duties of designers/contractors under Building Control
- Duty to ensure the clients understand their duties
- And take reasonable steps to ensure that their designs/works comply with building regs.
What are the duties of a Principal Designer under Building Control
• Ensure all duty holders collaborate and coordinate with each other
• Plan, manage, and oversee design work during the design phase
• Coordinate design-related matters to ensure that if construction follows the designs, and it complies with Building Regulations
• Ensure designers align their designs so that construction following these designs meets Building Regulations
• Ensure designers fulfill their duties
• Communicate and collaborate with the Principal Contractor
• Consider input from the Principal Contractor regarding compliance with Building Regulations
• Assist the client in providing information to designers
• Review the arrangements made by any previous Principal Designer.
Duties of a Principal Contractor under Building Control
• Coordinate all building work to ensure it adheres to Building Regulations.
• Plan, manage, and oversee building work during the construction phase.
• Coordinate matters related to building work to ensure compliance with Building Regulations
• Ensure all Duty Holders collaborate with one another.
• Ensure contractors fulfil their duties and are competent.
• Communicate and collaborate with the Principal Designer
• Take into account comments from the Principal Designer regarding compliance with Building Regulations
• Assist the client in providing information to contractors
• Review the arrangements made by any previous Principal Contractor.
What is the difference between a Principal Designer (PD) for Building control vs a PD for CDM?
CDM PD = Predominantly focus on H&S holistically across a project
Building Control PD = Focus on legal and technical requirements as per building regs in construction
Both coordinate, manage and monitor the works in respective ways.
Define the Golden Thread
The Golden Thread is both the information that allows you to understand a building and the steps needed to keep both the building and people safe, now and in the future.
The Golden Thread will hold the information that those responsible for the building require to show that the building was compliant with applicable Building Regulations during its construction
and provide evidence of meeting the requirements of the new Building Control route throughout the design.
What is an accountable person
The reformed Building Safety Act 2022 defines the ‘Accountable Person’ as: ‘The dutyholder during a building’s occupation.’ In most cases this will be the freeholder or head lessee or a management company.
It suggests that; ‘The Accountable Person will be legally responsible for ensuring that they understand fire and structural risks in their buildings and to take appropriate steps and actions to mitigate and manage these fire and structural risks on an ongoing basis so the building can be
safely occupied.
How can you demonstrate competence
PAS standards frame work – One for Principal Contractors and One for Principal Designers
Clients should also review so they know what questions are need to be asked to prove competence.
Building Safety Regulator’s rolls
Report annually on regulation process
Do duty holders now have to prove compliance?
Yes - duty holders now have to present confident and complaint design rather than asking for advice from the Approved Inspector
Upon appointment what information will Approved Inspectors now require?
- Confirmation that the work is not a Higher Risk Building Work
- The Height of the top story of the building
- Construction start date - Digging foudations, partitions, drainage (i.e. not set up, demo or enabling works). Must give 2 days notice Approved Inspector.
- Commencement date – 15% of the work is complete. Must give 5 days notice of completing that stage. (application then remains enforced until the end of works up to 3 years).
- Notification about duty holders
o Who PD and PC’s are (If they change will need to be updated within 14 days)
o Dates for appointments of PD’s and PC’s.
As per the Building Regulations - what happens at completion of the a project?
Building control require declaration of compliance from client, PD and PC.
’- Client decleration: to the best of their knowledge ‘the works comply with the Buidling Regulations.
- Principal contractor decleration
o Date of appointment.
o Confirmation they have fulfilled their obligations as per the Buidling Regulations.
- Pricipal contractor
o Date of appointment.
o Confirmation they have fulfilled their obligations as per the Buidling Regulations.
When must you make building control application to building safety regulator:
- When creating a high-risk building
- Or working on a high-risk building
