UK & Ireland Roles Within the Building Safety Act - Recorded 25/07/2023

The Building Safety Act has introduced new regulated roles and terminology, identifies new duty holders who will be known as 'accountable persons' (AP) for residential high-rise buildings. Understand how potential duty holders should prepared to comply with the duties placed on APs.

Existing roles have new responsibilities during design and construction. HSE has stated existing dutyholders under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 will have new duties. These dutyholders are clients, designers, principal designers, contractors and principal contractors and their duties will be to plan, manage and monitor.

The purpose of this webinar is to clarify and address roles and responsibilities within the Act and to ensure members fully understand the impact of the new Act on their day to day work.

Discuss and question:

• Who is the Accountable Person?
• What is the role of the Building Safety Regulator? 
• Who are Principal Designers and Principle Contractors?

David Savage

David is a leading UK and international construction lawyer. He is a partner in international law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, where he co-leads the firm’s Construction and Infrastructure sector. He is dual qualified as both a barrister and a UK solicitor. He is ranked as a Band 1 partner and Leading Individual in both Chambers and Legal 500 guides to the UK legal profession.

David acts for international governments, designers, contractors, developers and funders across a wide range of construction and infrastructure projects, both on transactional and dispute resolution related work. In his UK work, he has particular experience in advising on fire safety and fire safety related defects claims. In his international work, David has particular experience in acting for international governments on major airport developments.

David regularly writes and speaks on construction law and the construction sector. He is often quoted in the trade and national press on such matters. He is an editor of "Partnering and Collaborative Working" (published by Informa Law / Routledge) which brought together leading construction industry and legal experts to discuss key elements of partnering and collaborative working processes and how they can be implemented legally, technically, and culturally in the construction sector.

• Provide clear guidance for members to support them in there day to day roles.
• Explaining the different roles and terminology that is used within the Building Safety Act.