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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.
Answers to frequently asked questions on Approved Document B including 2020 and 2022 amendments.
How to apply for a completion or partial completion certificate after contractors have completed the building work for higher-risk building work or building work to an existing higher-risk building.
Use this service to apply for and manage building control applications for higher-risk buildings in England.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Use this service to apply to register a high-rise residential building in England with the Building Safety Regulator.
How principal accountable persons, or someone authorised to act for them, can register a high-rise residential building in England.
Responsibilities of the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building’s safety case report.
Use this service to apply to become a registered building inspector in England and Wales with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
A guide for principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons to report incidents or risks of structural failure, or the spread of fire to the Building Safety Regulator.
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
How principal designers, principal contractors and principal accountable persons must set up and maintain a system to report building safety incidents and risks.
Duties of the principal accountable person and accountable persons of a high-rise residential building to prepare and update a resident engagement strategy.
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).
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