Potential areas for misunderstanding are emerging as the construction industry gets to grips with the Building Safety Act (BSA). It is now generally understood that hospitals and care homes are excluded from the BSA’s occupation phase requirements even if the
More about Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA): Works to hospitals and care homesUnder the Building (Higher-Risk Buildings Procedures) (England) Regulations 2023 there is now a responsibility on the Principal Designer and Principal Contractor responsible for HRBs to carry out Mandatory Occurrence Reporting (MOR) where appropriate. Which buildings are affected? An HRB is a building
More about Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA): Mandatory occurrence reporting for higher risk buildings (hrbs) during constructionIntroduction The requirement for a Building Safety Case and Safety Case Report falls under Section 85 of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). It is one of a number of responsibilities introduced by the BSA and is directly relevant to
More about Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA): Building safety cases and reportsWhat is the Golden Thread? The Building Safety Act (BSA) requirement for a golden thread of information seeks to remedy a historic lack of complete and up to date information about high rise residential buildings which can make it difficult
More about Weaving the golden threadIntroduction The construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). As part of these reforms, the BSA introduced a regime that seeks to strengthen pre-existing enforcement powers and introduces new enforcement
More about Enforcement powers under the BSA during the in-construction phaseIn Part 1 we introduced the new Principal Designer and Principal Contractor roles in the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) in contrast to those roles under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM Regulations). In this Part 2 we
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 2 – Principal designer competency requirementsThe construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). As part of these reforms, from 1 October 2023, a new dutyholder regime applies to all construction projects subject to limited exceptions
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 1 – IntroductionThe construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA”). As part of these reforms, from 1 October 2023, a new dutyholder regime applies to all construction projects subject to limited exceptions.
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 3 – Principal contractor competency requirementsThe construction industry is undergoing a transformative shift with the implementation of the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA”). As part of these reforms, from 1 October 2023, a new dutyholder regime applies to all construction projects subject to limited exceptions.
More about Navigating the Building Safety Act 2022: Demystifying principal designer and principal contractor roles part 4 – Client dutiesUnder the Building Safety Act 2022 (“BSA“) and corresponding regulations all existing occupied higher risk buildings in England are to be registered with the national Building Safety Regulator (“Regulator”) by 1 October 2023. A failure to do so could lead
More about Part one: Occupied hrbs must be on the register – BSA occupational insights (england)