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.
Residential &
Regeneration
Delivery governance for housing estates, apartment schemes, and urban regeneration across the UK.
Residential delivery is a volume game. Dozens of plots, multiple phases, overlapping contractors—and a sales programme that doesn't pause for compliance gaps.
The challenge isn't understanding CDM obligations. It's maintaining consistent governance across hundreds of individual handovers while contractors rotate between plots and design variations multiply across the programme.
What we control in residential delivery
Our role is to impose governance on high-volume programmes without slowing the pace of construction or sales. We bring structure to the complexity.
Plot-by-plot compliance tracking across phased delivery programmes
Design coordination between house types, variants, and site adaptations
Subcontractor interface governance across groundworks, structure, and fit-out
H&S File compilation and handover aligned to sales programme milestones
Quality consistency across multiple contractors working in parallel
Building Safety Act gateway submissions for higher-risk residential
Residential capabilities
Principal Designer
Design coordination across house types and phases
Phased Handover
Plot-by-plot completion aligned to sales
Quality Assurance
Consistent standards across all contractors
Building Safety
Gateway submissions and golden thread
CDM Client Advisory
Duty holder appointments and oversight
Contractor Coordination
Interface management across packages
What you get
Phased Delivery Plan
Plot release schedule aligned with CDM compliance milestones
H&S File per Unit
Individual files ready for purchaser handover at completion
Design Risk Register
Coordinated across house types with residual risk communication
Contractor Interface Matrix
Clear accountability for overlapping trade packages
Gateway Submission Pack
Building Safety Act documentation for HRB schemes
Common failure modes
Where residential projects drift
We've seen these patterns across hundreds of schemes. The risk isn't ignorance—it's the gap between good intentions and consistent execution across volume delivery.
1
Design changes cascade across plots without coordinated risk review
2
H&S Files incomplete at legal completion, blocking sales
3
Subcontractor interfaces unmanaged, creating safety gaps between packages
4
Sales programme drives handover before compliance checks complete
5
Building Safety requirements treated as afterthought, not embedded from design
Track record in residential delivery
We work with regional house builders, housing associations, and national developers across schemes ranging from 50-unit infill sites to 500+ plot strategic land releases.
5,000+
Units supported
40+
Phased schemes
100%
H&S Files at completion
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Whether you're planning a 50-unit scheme or a 500-plot strategic site, our team is ready to support your delivery.
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