Cahill Design Consultants Limited (CDC) has created this technical note to outline requirements under the new Building Safety Act (BSA) 2022 which achieved Royal assent in April 2022.
The BSA names the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR). Therefore, the BSR will regulate higher-risk buildings (HRB’s) over 18m in height or with 7 storeys or more and having at least 2 residential units (formerly referred to as high-rise residential buildings)
Likewise, hospitals and care homes meeting similar height requirements will be regulated by the BSR during the design and construction phases of development only.
The BSR will enforce the new regulatory framework for higher-risk buildings (aka high rise residential buildings) which includes the following:
Under the Building Safety Act those responsible for occupied, higher-risk buildings (high rise residential buildings) will be required to:
If you need further assistance with the regulations, please get in touch via the contact form below or call us on +44 (0) 1206 809 598.
For information of how to prepare for the new building safety framework for HRB’s please see the HSE website: https://www.hse.gov.uk/building-safety/how-to-prepare.htm
This technical note is not an exhaustive list of requirements under the Building Safety Act
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