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  • Find out the classes of building inspectors, the competencies needed and how to register as a building inspector in England and Wales.

  • The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.

  • Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for England.

  • Anyone in England can use this service to contact the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

  • Find out what information the Building Safety Regulator holds in its register of high-rise residential buildings, and how you can access that information.

  • How clients can submit and manage a building control application to the Building Safety Regulator for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing higher-risk building.

  • Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.

  • What a principal accountable person must do to prepare, submit and update a safety case report for a high-rise residential building

  • The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design.

  • How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.

  • What the principal accountable person and accountable persons must do to prepare, submit and update a resident engagement strategy for a high-rise residential building.

  • Use this service to submit a mandatory occurrence notice and report for higher-risk buildings, including high-rise residential buildings, to the BSR.  

  • Find details of a building control approver listed on the register of building control approvers (RBCAs) for England.

  • Find out how to complain about a building safety risk, or the performance of an accountable person or principal accountable person, in a high-rise residential building.

  • Duties and responsibilities of the principal accountable person.

  • Find details of a building inspector listed on the register of building inspectors for Wales.

  • This guide will help you understand the assessment criteria needed when you apply to register your business as a building control approver.

  • A tool designed to help individuals and teams identify the skills and capacity of their organisation.

  • Mine water blocks are a set of flooded collieries which are interconnected and exhibit a continuous gradient of water level across their area.

  • Guidance on the grant to provide additional support to 21 areas producing exemplar design codes.