Course
The Building Regulations 2010: A contractors guide to their requirements and application
The Building Regulations 2010 have been revised, imposing significant duties with criminal liabilities on those involved in building works including contractors and principal contractors. This course will allow attendees to identify building work and advise on the processes and procedures that are required to ensure compliance with the Regulations.
The Building Regulations 2010 have been revised by the Building Safety Act 2022 to impose significant new duties and competence requirements on a range of duty holders including contractors and principal contractors. These duties come with criminal liabilities and significant penalties for failure.
A contractor must now “ensure the building work they carry out is in compliance with all relevant requirements”. The principal contractor must “plan, manage and monitor the building work during the construction phase, and coordinate matters relating to the building work comprised in the project to ensure the building work is in compliance with all relevant requirements.”
This course explains:
- what ‘building work’ is and the various statutory procedural routes that can be followed when undertaking such work;
- what the relevant requirements are and how to ensure that you are meeting these standards;
- the duties of duty holders and the mandatory competence requirements and how to set up an organisation to deliver against the requirements;
- the steps that should be taken to provide assurance and evidence of compliance with the building regulations;
It is an intense course that looks at both the regulatory requirements and the practical steps that contractors and principal contractors must take to discharge their duties.
On completion of the course attendees will be able to identify building work and advise both their organisations and the teams within they work of the appropriate steps they should be taking to achieve compliance with the Building Regulations 2010.
Event Details
The course will cover:
Building Control
Overview of the Building Regulation procedural requirements
Building Control Authorities and enforcement
Building Control Bodies, Registered Building Control Inspectors and the building control function
Procedural requirements
Where the local authority is the Building Control Body
Where a registered building control approver is the Building Control Body
Competent person schemes
Lapse of building control approval
Completion notices and declarations
Regularisation of unauthorised building work
Assurance and provision of information
Design assurance
Construction assurance
Regulations 38 Fire safety and BLFO information
Records of materials and workmanship
Change control
Assurance records
Dutyholders and competence
Overview of the dutyholder regime
Duties of dutyholders
Overview of the competence requirements
Competence requirements of dutyholders
Management of competence
Industry Competence Committee expectations
Industry guidance
Managing competence
Competence assessment schemes
Higher-risk buildings
Definition of higher-risk buildings
Overview of the procedural requirements of higher-risk buildings
The use of higher-risk building procedures to support compliance on non HRB building projects.
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Objectives & Assessment
- Explain what building work is and be able to identify when work is building work.
- Explain the statutory procedures that can be followed to deliver compliance with the building regulations and be able to select an appropriate procedure for a project.
- Explain what the relevant requirements of the Building Regulations are and the hierarchy of standards that can be applied to achieve compliance with the building regulations.
- Explain the duties of all dutyholders.
- Explain the competence requirements of the building regulations and be able to identify and assess the competence they need to be able to undertake their role.
- Advise others, at a strategic level, on the steps they must take as a contractor or principal contractor to comply with the requirements of the Building Regulations.
Suitability
The course is designed for supervisors and managers working for contractors and principal contractors but will also be useful to clients, project managers and designers.