Building Regulations Principal Designer
Catalyst provides fully independent Principal Designer services to help you meet your statutory duties under the Building Safety Act.
At Catalyst, our Building Regulation Principal Designer (BR PD) service not only fulfils the dutyholder role for the client but also helps ensure compliance with the Building Regulations. With over 10 years of experience performing an almost identical role in the Irish market, Catalyst is perfectly placed to provide a comprehensive service to ensure that both the Principal Designer duties and regulatory requirements are fully met.
Our Principal Designer Approach
Our Principal Designer Approach
Managing Design
By planning, managing, and monitoring the design phase, we will ensure coordination between stakeholders. As part of our design review, we will review the overall project and provide a risk profile which will form the basis of the trackers and then the RIBA 5 monitoring. We will also assist the Client in compiling the information required for Gateway 2 submission including Fire & Emergency File.
Construction Monitoring
We can tailor scheduled site inspections to the project programme, depending on the risk profile. Benchmark inspections can also be scheduled at key stages of the project. We will contribute to the mandatory occurrence reporting as required under the HRB Procedure Regulations. We can monitor the compilation of construction records.
Handover
Tracking the compilation of critical information for Gateway 3 is a key focus. Additionally, we offer support to the Client in preparing their Building Control Completion Certificate application.
Obi – Our Digital Platform
With the Principal Designer having to ensure that an ‘appropriate frequency of inspections’ of HRB design work for safety occurrences throughout the construction phase, the Obi Platform is tailor-made to manage and coordinate these inspections. In addition to this, we will supplement the project team’s inspections, with our own teams site inspections.
Why Catalyst?
Fully Independent
One of our core operating principles is our independence. We work closely with (but do not compete with) the design and construction teams so we remain independent. Our advice is always expert and impartial.
Integrated, Multi-Disciplinary
Our clients benefit from the experience of Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Fire, Façade, and Environmental engineers, as well as technologists, and clerks of works. We provide all these roles in a single team rather than procuring multiple consultants to cover various disciplines.
Digital Golden Thread
We built our digital software platform, Obi, to ensure that critical information is tracked, validated, and retained for our clients. This allows them to demonstrate compliance with the Building Safety Act and other duties of care, building their digital golden thread of information.e
Meet some of the UK Team
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