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How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
Links to secondary legislation.
Building regulation in England covering the prevention of toxic substances in buildings.
Find out how you can join a third party certification scheme for domestic electrical work.
This guidance relates to the legal criteria for determining whether a building is considered a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions)…
Use this guidance to help you understand what ‘relevant defect’ means under the Building Safety Act 2022.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document S, which sets standards for installation of electric vehicle charge points or cable routes.
Guidance for local authorities, registered building control approvers, and persons carrying out building work.
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.
What the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) charges for building control, inspection, registration and other functions, and how BSR calculates these.
From 28 June 2022, the leaseholder protections on building safety costs in England have come into effect.
Use this guide if you work in a self-certification scheme (previously known as competent person scheme). This guide sets out the mandatory requirements for individuals and organisations.
Information for leaseholders and other residents about fire safety and fixing fire safety problems (also called remediation) including unsafe cladding.
Information on reversions for members of the public.
This guidance outlines the obligations that the leaseholder protections in the Act place onto building owners, right-to-manage companies, resident management companies and named managers.
This guidance provides an overview of cladding remediation and how this definition will impact you in practice.
All private sector businesses that want to do building control work in England and Wales under the Building Act 1984 (as amended) must apply to register with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
Use this service to apply for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
The information principal accountable persons must submit when applying for a building assessment certificate from the Building Safety Regulator.
What documents clients need to submit to manage building control approval for higher-risk building work under transitional arrangements.
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