Identifying where you fit

Client

Your duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following at Building Regulation application stage;

• Ensure suitable arrangements exist to plan, manage and monitor the building work to ensure compliance with the Building Regulations.
• Ensure that these arrangements are maintained throughout the life of the project.
• Take all reasonable steps to ensure any designers or contractors appointed are competent to carry out the work for which they are appointed. In practice, this means appointing the right people (with the right competencies) for the work.
• Name, address, phone number and email of these parties.
• Details of any change in the duty holders and the dates of their appointment.
• A signed statement of authority that the information is, to the best of your knowledge, correct.
• Confirm your intended start date.
• The date and description of ‘commencement' or meaningful start will be required at application stage. For new buildings and extensions this would usually be the date at which the foundations and ground floor structure is complete
• The client and design team must submit a design that they are confident complies with the building regulations. Limited or speculative design information could give rise to Building Control questioning the competence of designers.

Designer

Means anyone (including the Client, contractor or anyone else) who, during their business, carries out design work or arranges for or instructs anyone under their control to do so.

You must: 

• Plan, manage and monitor design work so that if the building work were carried out, it would comply with the Building Regulations.
• Cooperate with the Client, designers, and contractors to the extent that if the building work were carried out, it would comply with the Building Regulations.
• Not start any design work unless you are satisfied that the Client is aware of the duties owed by the Client.
• Carry out design to ensure that if building work were carried out, the design it would comply with the Building Regulations.
• Provide sufficient information about the building's design, construction and maintenance to allow the Client, other designers and contractors to comply with the Building Regulations.
• Consider any other design work and report any compliance concerns relating to the design compliance to the Principal Designers and Client.
• Must advise the Principal Designer or the Client whether any work they are designing is Higher-Risk building work.

Contractor

Is any person (including the Client, but not a domestic client) who, in the course of a business, carries out, manages or controls any building work.

You must: 

• Plan, manage and monitor the building work so as to comply with the Building Regulations.
• Cooperate with the Client, designers and contractors to the extent necessary to ensure that it would comply with the Building Regulations.
• Not start any building work unless they are satisfied that the Client is aware of the duties owed by their duties.
• Ensure the building work they are carrying out complies with the Building Regulations.
• Provide each worker under their control with appropriate supervision, information and instruction to ensure the building work complies with the Building Regulations.
• Provide sufficient information about the work to allow the Client, other designers and contractors to comply with the Building Regulations.
• Consider other building works when you are only carrying out part of the building work and report any concerns relating to compliance to the Principal Contractor.
• Provide advice to the Principal Contractor or the Client on whether any work is Higher-Risk building work.