Sectors
Specialist experience in technically demanding projects
Work is concentrated where design responsibility is distributed, interfaces are complex and the compliance record has to stand up to scrutiny.
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Where compliance risk sits between disciplines
Façade remediation and fire-safety projects frequently involve multiple specialist designers. The problem is often not within an individual design package. It is at the interface between packages.
Typical interfaces
- External wall build-up
- Cavity barriers
- Slab-edge fire stopping
- SFS and support systems
- Window perimeter details
- Balconies and roof junctions
- Structural support and fire performance
- Reinstatement sequencing
Fire-related works
- Compartmentation
- Fire stopping
- Fire doors
- Smoke control
- Fire strategy implementation
- Service penetrations
- Linings
- Means of escape
- Structural fire protection
The greatest design risk is often at the interface nobody owns.
02
Façade remediation and fire-safety support
- Design-responsibility review
- Façade and fire interface review
- Compliance evidence tracking
- Specialist coordination
- Significant change review
- Building Control / BSR coordination support
- PD reporting
- Completion readiness
The objective is not to re-design specialist packages. It is to make the interfaces, information flows, actions and compliance discussions visible and properly managed.
03
Higher-Risk Buildings
More procedure. More evidence. Less room for ambiguity.
Higher-Risk Building projects introduce additional procedural requirements and make the quality of project information, appointments and decision trails more consequential.
On an HRB, the compliance trail must be built as the design develops — not reconstructed at the end.
Additional requirements
- Gateway 2
- Competence declarations
- Construction control information
- Change control
- Golden thread information
- Mandatory Occurrence Reporting
- Gateway 3
- Completion information
BRPD Advisory support may include
- HRB mobilisation
- Dutyholder and appointment review
- Competence evidence
- Design-responsibility schedules
- Gateway readiness
- Compliance information planning
- Design-change assessment
- Change-control support
- Mandatory Occurrence Reporting support
- Golden thread information coordination
- Completion readiness
BRPD Advisory does not guarantee regulatory approval and does not assume responsibility for specialist designs undertaken by other appointed designers. Services are delivered within the agreed appointment and project dutyholder arrangements.
04
D&B / Contractor-Led Projects
On contractor-led D&B projects, Project Managers and Contracts Managers may already be responsible for programme, procurement, commercial management, subcontractors, client management and site delivery.
Increasingly, they are also expected to coordinate design and meet Building Regulations Principal Designer duties. BRPD Advisory enables these responsibilities to be separated without diluting the contractor’s control of design.
Senior design-management and compliance resource — scaled to the project.