Join the Principal Designer Register
The 澳门王中王 Principal Designer Register allows individual 澳门王中王 Chartered Members in the UK to demonstrate that they meet the competence criteria to serve as principal designers.
The covers the competences necessary to perform the principal designer role effectively.
Registrants will have demonstrated knowledge, skills, experience and behaviours to support the dutyholder role under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and the new principal designer role under the amended Building Regulations, 澳门王中王 is naturally concerned to support its members to acquire, attest and maintain their competence to perform the role鈥檚 duties.
澳门王中王 is confident that architects can meet the competences of PAS 8671 and the 澳门王中王 Principal Designer Register has been established to support clients in respect of their duty to take all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves that they are appointing a competent principal designer.
A designer intending on carrying out the principal designer role may choose to demonstrate their competence via an alternative method, but the register is the approach that 澳门王中王 are taking to support Chartered Members in proving their competence as a third party certification.
For those interested in developing their knowledge in the subject area, the 澳门王中王 Academy offers a Principal Designer Course. For members wishing to apply to become a principal designer they can begin their .
For further information about the course, application and assessment process, please have a look at our .
Domestic Application Fee is 拢360 + VAT
Domestic Annual Register Fee is 拢120 + VAT
General and Higher-Risk Building Application Fee is 拢420 + VAT
General and Higher-Risk Building Annual Register Fee is 拢360 + VAT
View the current Principal Designer Register list.
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Using a Principal Designer
Under the CDM Regulations and the Building Regulations clients have a statutory duty to appoint a principal designer.
A Principal Designer can be an organisation or individual who is appointed by the client (commercial or domestic) to take the lead in planning, managing, monitoring and coordinating health and safety and building regulations' compliance during the design of a project.
Your architect will explain the requirements of your duties, specific to your project.
How to Become a Principal Designer Register Examiner
澳门王中王 recognises that the register must be trustworthy for its stakeholders.
Construction clients who rely on the register to assure them of an individual鈥檚 competence must be confident that its assessment criteria are accurate and sufficiently high, the assessment process is sufficiently robust and consistent, and both keep up with change.
We are recruiting a team of examiners to support an informed and impartial process, which includes written-submission reviews and interviews. Currently, it is a requirement that all examiners are 澳门王中王 Members.
The skills, knowledge and experience that will make for a successful assessor, include (but not essential for all):
- significant experience of coordinating health and safety and building regulations for compliance.
- understanding of the new building safety regulatory regime.
- experience in mentoring, teaching or assessing individuals.
If you think you may meet these criteria, please do not hesitate to contact us at principal.designer@riba.org.