Insights8 Jan 2025
Building Safety Act 2022: What It Means for Your Projects
The Building Safety Act 2022 introduces significant changes to how buildings are designed, constructed, and managed. Here's what you need to know.
Commercial &
Mixed-Use
Programme certainty for offices, retail, and complex mixed-use developments with multiple stakeholders.
Commercial projects rarely involve a single client. There's the developer, the fund, the occupier, their fit-out contractor—each with their own programme, their own consultants, and their own version of "ready."
The complexity isn't technical. It's coordination. Managing the transition from base build to occupied building, with multiple parties working in parallel, requires clear governance and someone accountable for the interfaces.
What we control in commercial delivery
Our role is to manage the handshakes—between base build and fit-out, between landlord and tenant, between occupied floors and active construction.
Multi-tenant fit-out coordination from base build through CAT A/B completion
Phased occupancy planning with construction continuing in adjacent areas
Design risk coordination across architectural, structural, and M&E disciplines
Stakeholder reporting cadence for landlords, tenants, and managing agents
Programme governance across base build and tenant work packages
H&S File compilation structured for multi-occupancy building operations
Commercial capabilities
Principal Designer
Design risk coordination through RIBA stages
Tenant Coordination
CAT A/B fit-out interface management
Phased Occupancy
Safe handover with concurrent works
Stakeholder Management
Multi-party coordination and reporting
Project Management
Programme governance and delivery oversight
H&S File Compilation
Asset information for building operations
What you get
Tenant Interface Protocol
Clear rules of engagement for overlapping fit-out works
Phased Occupancy Plan
Floor-by-floor handover sequencing with compliance gates
Stakeholder Dashboard
Weekly reporting for landlord, PM, and tenant teams
Building-Wide H&S File
Structured for FM use with tenant-specific annexes
Design Coordination Log
Multi-discipline risk tracking through RIBA stages
Contractor Matrix
Base build and fit-out contractor interface management
Common failure modes
Where commercial projects fracture
Multi-stakeholder projects fail at the interfaces. Not through incompetence, but because no single party owns the coordination between them.
1
Tenant fit-out teams mobilise without base build CDM handover complete
2
Parallel contractors on same floor with no coordinated site rules
3
Landlord assumes PD duties transfer to tenant—neither fulfils them
4
Phased occupation creates fire strategy gaps between floors
Experience across asset classes
From Grade A headquarters to mixed-use regeneration schemes, we coordinate the transition from construction to occupied asset—managing the stakeholders who make that transition complex.
50+
Commercial projects
£500M+
Combined value
15+
Multi-tenant schemes
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Whether you're developer, landlord, or occupier, we can discuss how to bring governance to your programme.
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