The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 require a Principal Designer on most building projects. For construction works in Richmond, 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 Richmond upon Thames, delivering health and safety outputs that genuinely protect people rather than just ticking boxes.
We act as CDM Principal Designer for building projects across Richmond, 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 Richmond — including Georgian terraces, Victorian villas, Edwardian houses, riverside properties, listed buildings — 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 Richmond, ensuring designers are coordinated and risks are addressed.
Coordination of health and safety matters across the design team for projects in Richmond, 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 Richmond, ensuring legal obligations are understood and fulfilled.
Richmond properties are particularly prone to damp in Georgian riverside properties on Thames alluvial ground, settlement in Victorian villa foundations on gravel and clay, deterioration of original decorative ironwork and joinery on listed buildings. Understanding these local defect patterns is essential for anyone commissioning a survey, planning remedial works or assessing the condition of a Richmond upon Thames building.
Richmond Town Centre Conservation Area, Richmond Hill Conservation Area and the Richmond Outstanding Natural Beauty designation; Richmond Council is very protective of the Thames setting and applies stringent design standards. Any works to properties in Richmond must be assessed against these planning and heritage requirements, and our services are delivered with full awareness of what Richmond upon Thames Council will and will not permit.
Our surveyors cover Richmond and the surrounding Richmond upon Thames area. The area is accessible via Richmond (District line, Overground, National Rail), and our team carries out regular inspections across Richmond TW9.
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 Richmond 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 Richmond, 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 Richmond often involve Georgian and Victorian riverside properties with construction risks including damp in Georgian riverside properties on Thames alluvial ground, settlement in Victorian villa foundations on gravel and clay, deterioration of original decorative ironwork and joinery on listed buildings. Our CDM management specifically addresses the health and safety implications of these building types and conditions.
Richmond Town Centre Conservation Area, Richmond Hill Conservation Area and the Richmond Outstanding Natural Beauty designation; Richmond Council is very protective of the Thames setting and applies stringent design standards. 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.