Design and building work: meeting building requirements
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The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
The duties and competence requirements for building regulations that clients, designers and contractors must meet. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Building regulations and duties covered in this guide
- Higher-risk buildings
- Clients' duties
- Managing the project
- Appointing designers and contractors
- Appointing an organisation as principal designer or principal contractor
- Higher-risk building work: clients' duties
- Higher-risk building work: individuals or organisations with serious sanctions
- Clients' duties: multiple clients
- Domestic clients' duties
- Managing the project
- Appointing designers and contractors
- Designers' duties
- Principal designers' duties
- Higher-risk building work: principal designers' duties
- Contractors' duties
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Design and building work: meeting building requirements’ (updated 4 March 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026