Principal Designer

We ensure that construction projects deliver good value and are safe to build, use and maintain by providing advice and facilitating in-depth consideration of the health and safety implications of the design. We also provide advice to clients, assisting them with their obligations under the CDM Regulations.

Deliverables:

• Assisting in the development of the initial brief

• Planning, managing and monitoring the co-ordination of the pre-construction phase

• Helping clients identify, obtain and collate pre-construction information

• Providing pre-construction information to designers, principal contractor and contractors

• Co-ordinating significant health and safety issues with the design team through to resolution

• Ensuring cooperation between and compliance with CDM 2015

• Attending design review meetings

• Liaising with the principal contractor for the duration of our appointment

• Supporting the principal contractor in seeking and obtaining responses to health and safety queries from designers

• Agreeing a format and compiling the statutory health and safety file for formal handover at project completion

• Communicating our progress and raising awareness of potential health and safety issues CDM 2015 requires a client to identify and obtain pre-construction information. We offer support to do this and will also help collate the information for issue to the designers and the principal contractor for the construction phase.