Certificate in Principal Designer

Learning outcomes

• Apply PAS 8671 in order to contribute to safer building practices and regulatory compliance
•  Evaluate your own and others’ professional competence and, where applicable, the organisational capability
•  Apply interpersonal skills and develop strategies for cooperating with all duty holders to ensure design work compliance
•  Apply understanding of duty holder responsibilities under the building regulations and the duties and the typical skillset required by the Principal Designer
•  Explain how to locate and apply information from the legislative and regulatory framework governing design work compliance, and the duties expected of principal designers and other duty holders
•  Explain procedural differences for the appointment of duty holders on Domestic Projects
•  Outline the different legislative and regulatory framework governing design work compliance for Higher-Risk Buildings (HRB), and the duties expected of principal designers and other duty holders
•  Utilise programming methods to plan, programme and allocate activities which meet the project programme
•  Evaluate the organisational procedures and resources within your organisation, and the appointed sub-contractors to ensure this will meet project output requirements
•  Apply procurement appraisal procedures to assess appropriateness for design compliance for a specific project
•  Implement appropriate systems and controls within your business and protocols to manage external designers
•  Analyse designer outputs and managing procedures for achieving compliance
•  Analyse how building design relates to purpose and performance, and how to use guidance to assess compliance with regulatory requirements
•  Explain how to manage design work compliance and identify technical risks
•  Utilise information management systems to manage compliance strategies and control changes, while recording information according to the principles of the golden thread
•  Explain when Building Surveyors are suited to undertake the dutyholder responsibility on construction projects, and when the role should be undertaken by another party
•  Evaluate design work compliance sufficient to follow prescribed procedures for declaring compliance
•  Analyse the understanding of the legislative and regulatory framework related to design work on HRBs, including in relation to prescribed procedures and information
•  Evaluate ways to establish and maintain throughout the construction phase a system for inspecting HRB design work for safety occurrences and promptly reporting safety occurrences