Most construction projects with more than one contractor require a principal designer to manage health and safety during the design phase. Kingston Surveyors arranges a competent principal designer under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, helping clients discharge their legal duties and deliver safer projects. We provide principal designer services across London and nationwide.
Under CDM 2015, the principal designer plans, manages and monitors health and safety in the pre-construction phase and coordinates the design team to eliminate or reduce risks. They compile pre-construction information, contribute to the health and safety file and help ensure that risks are designed out before work begins on site.
CDM 2015 places legal duties on clients, including appointing a principal designer and principal contractor on projects involving more than one contractor. Appointing a competent principal designer helps you meet these obligations, protects those working on and affected by the project, and demonstrates that risks have been properly managed.
We match your project to a competent principal designer experienced in CDM compliance across a range of building types, providing practical, proportionate advice. Contact Kingston Surveyors for a free, no-obligation quote on principal designer services under CDM 2015.
See also: construction project management, clerk of works inspections and contract administration.
Under CDM 2015, any project with more than one contractor must have a principal designer appointed in writing — including many domestic extensions and loft conversions. The role manages health and safety through the design phase: identifying risks that can be designed out, coordinating designers, and compiling the pre-construction information and health and safety file. Clients who fail to appoint one inherit the duties themselves.
We arrange qualified professionals to take the appointment, produce the required documentation and liaise with your architect and principal contractor — a modest fixed fee that removes a legal exposure most homeowners never knew they had. Related: project management and contract administration. Call 0204 579 8270.
