The Building Safety Act - 8 Key Legal & Practical Compliance Points

Introduction

The Building Safety Act is transforming the landscape of residential property and construction. This in-person course covers 8 key Building Safety Act (BSA) topics which everyone in the industry needs to understand and act on.

Proactively implementing critical actions is key to compliance. Affecting both new-build projects and occupied residential buildings, no-one can afford to ignore the BSA. It encompasses measures for resident safety and security; new rights and responsibilities on industry developers, builders and designers; and new obligations for individual and organisational competency, risk assessment and building certification within a higher-risk regime. Regulators are empowered with significant powers to enforce compliance, and their work is taking shape in earnest.

Aimed at all involved in residential property matters and those who work in regulatory matters, this course will interweave the threads of ‘levelling up’ and government ambition which are at the heart of the BSA following the Grenfell tragedy and the extensive work done since. It may also be of wider interest to those who prepare construction contracts, quantity surveyors, employers’ agents, fund monitors etc.

What You Will Learn

This course will cover the following 8 key, activity-driven compliance topics:

• The BSA jigsaw: Understand how to piece it all together
• The Regulators: Identify how the BSA workload is divided up
• Key terminology: Define key BSA terms such as Dutyholders, Accountable Person, Gateways and Golden Thread
• Activities for compliance: apply compliance requirements to both new-build and existing residential buildings
• Competency under BSA: legal and practical expectations
• Inclusion: Demonstrate understanding of resident engagement duties
• Building safety certification process
• Non-compliance risks: Evaluate Regulator powers, statutory breaches and offences