Building Safety Act 2022 Flashcards
Key objectives of the Building Safety Act 2022
o Improve safety in high-rise and high-risk buildings.
o Enhance accountability and regulatory oversight.
o Establish a clear framework for building safety management.
Key roles and responsibilities introduced
o Building Safety Regulator (BSR) oversees building safety compliance.
o Accountable Person responsible for safety during the building’s lifecycle.
o Building Safety Manager (for high-risk buildings) manages day-to-day safety.
Scope of the Building Safety Act 2022
o Covers high-rise residential buildings (18m or 7+ storeys).
o Includes hospitals, care homes, and other high-risk buildings.
Role of the Building Safety Regulator
o Enforces building safety standards.
o Reviews safety cases for high-risk buildings.
o Provides guidance and oversight to duty holders.
Role of the Principal Designer
o Oversee the design phase to ensure compliance with safety standards.
o Coordinate with other duty holders to manage design-related risks.
o Communicate with duty holders to ensure the design complies with building regulations.
What is the difference between CDM Principal Designer and Building Safety Act Principal Designer?
Under CDM, the primary duty of the Principal Designer is to plan, manage and monitor the pre-construction phase of a project and to co-ordinate matters relating to health and safety.2 This is to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that construction projects are designed and managed without risks to the health or safety of those who build, use and maintain them.
Under the Building Regulations, the Principal Designer is required to ‘plan, manage and monitor the design work during the design phase’ and to ‘co-ordinate matters relating to the design work comprised in the project so that all reasonable steps are taken to ensure that the design is such that if the building work to which the design relates were built in accordance with that design the building work would be in compliance with all relevant requirements’. These relevant requirements are defined, and include those listed in Schedule 1 to the Building Regulations 2010.
What changes does it make to Building Control?
- have to be informed when you start on site
- have to be told the estimated date the project will get to slab level or 15% completed
- have to be told who the Principal Contractor is [and if this changes]
- have to be told who the Principal Designer is [and if this changes]
- On Completion we must receive a Competence Declaration from Client PD and PC
What are the client duties under Part 2A
- Make suitable arrangements for planning management and monitoring to ensure design, construction are compliant, PD and PC cooperate, and periodic reviewed and maintained
- Provide building information to the team
- Cooperate with everyone on the team
- Declaration on Completion
