The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 require a Principal Designer on most building projects. For construction works in Putney, our CDM team manages design-stage health and safety, ensuring compliance and reducing risk throughout the project lifecycle. We integrate CDM management with the practical realities of building in Wandsworth, delivering health and safety outputs that genuinely protect people rather than just ticking boxes.
We act as CDM Principal Designer for building projects across Putney, managing health and safety from initial design through to project handover. Our role ensures that health and safety is considered at every stage of the design and construction process. The construction types common in Putney — including Edwardian terraces, Victorian houses, riverside apartments, mansion flats — each present specific health and safety challenges that our CDM team addresses proactively.
Management of the pre-construction information and health and safety file for building projects in Putney, ensuring designers are coordinated and risks are addressed.
Coordination of health and safety matters across the design team for projects in Putney, ensuring compliance with CDM 2015 requirements.
Preparation of the building's health and safety file at project completion, providing essential information for future maintenance and alteration works.
Advice to clients on their CDM duties for building projects in Putney, ensuring legal obligations are understood and fulfilled.
Putney properties are particularly prone to damp in riverside properties subject to historic Thames flooding, subsidence in Edwardian terraces on London clay, flat-roof failures on 1970s–80s riverside apartment blocks. Understanding these local defect patterns is essential for anyone commissioning a survey, planning remedial works or assessing the condition of a Wandsworth building.
Putney Conservation Area; Wandsworth Council applies Article 4 directions in residential areas; riverside setting requires specialist flood risk consideration. Any works to properties in Putney must be assessed against these planning and heritage requirements, and our services are delivered with full awareness of what Wandsworth Council will and will not permit.
Our surveyors cover Putney and the surrounding Wandsworth area. The area is accessible via East Putney (District line), Putney (National Rail), Putney Bridge (District line), and our team carries out regular inspections across Putney SW15.
The Principal Designer manages health and safety during the pre-construction phase, coordinates designers to eliminate or reduce risks, prepares pre-construction information and manages the health and safety file.
Most building projects in Putney with more than one contractor require a Principal Designer under CDM 2015. Even smaller projects benefit from professional health and safety coordination.
Yes. We frequently combine the CDM Principal Designer role with project management, contract administration or employer's agent roles for projects in Putney, providing integrated project delivery.
The Principal Designer should be appointed as early as possible in the pre-construction phase, ideally before detailed design begins. Early appointment allows health and safety to be designed into the project from the outset.
Projects in Putney often involve Edwardian terraces and riverside properties with construction risks including damp in riverside properties subject to historic Thames flooding, subsidence in Edwardian terraces on London clay, flat-roof failures on 1970s–80s riverside apartment blocks. Our CDM management specifically addresses the health and safety implications of these building types and conditions.
Putney Conservation Area; Wandsworth Council applies Article 4 directions in residential areas; riverside setting requires specialist flood risk consideration. Heritage works and conservation area projects require specialist contractors and techniques. Our CDM pre-construction information reflects these requirements to ensure designers and contractors plan safely.