Building Safety Act Consultants London for Accountable Persons & Higher-Risk Buildings

No. This is technical building surveying and building safety evidence support. We do not provide legal advice, fire engineering certification, or a guarantee of Building Safety Regulator acceptance. Clients should take legal advice where the interpretation of the Building Safety Act 2022, statutory appointment duties or liability is in question. Where legal, fire engineering or statutory role appointments are required, we identify that clearly so the dutyholder knows what sits with us and what must be obtained elsewhere. Our role is to make the technical evidence behind building safety decisions robust, organised and defensible.

Under the Building Safety Act occupied-building regime, an Accountable Person is an organisation or individual that owns, or has a legal obligation to repair, any common part of an occupied higher-risk building. They must assess and manage the building safety risks — spread of fire and structural failure — for the parts they are responsible for, and keep that under review. We support Accountable Persons with the technical building information, surveys and gap analysis behind those duties; the statutory duties themselves remain with the Accountable Person and are not transferred to us.

Where a higher-risk building has more than one Accountable Person, the Principal Accountable Person is the one responsible for the structure and exterior. The Principal Accountable Person carries additional duties, including registering the building with the Building Safety Regulator, preparing and updating the safety case report, applying for a Building Assessment Certificate when BSR directs it to do so, and preparing and reviewing the resident engagement strategy. We provide the technical evidence and information support behind these duties; the statutory responsibilities remain with the Principal Accountable Person.

Yes. We support evidence review, building information gap analysis and the technical inputs a safety case draws on — external wall, compartmentation, fire door, facade and structural condition evidence. This supports, and does not replace, the safety case report itself or the dutyholder's statutory obligations. The work is carried out subject to appointment scope and competence requirements, and we identify clearly where specialist fire engineering or legal input is required rather than implying it is covered.

Yes. We help clients identify, structure and review the key building information needed to manage building safety, so it can be kept accurate and current as the golden thread. That includes reviewing what records exist, identifying gaps, and recommending how technical information should be organised and maintained. We do not operate the client's information management systems or assume the dutyholder's ongoing responsibility for keeping the golden thread up to date.

We provide the technical building evidence, condition information and gap analysis that a safety case report relies on, and help structure it. The safety case report itself, and the assessment that it is satisfactory, remain the dutyholder's responsibility and commonly require fire engineering and other specialist input. We are explicit about which elements we can support and where competent specialist or legal input is required, so the report is built on properly scoped, properly attributed evidence.

No. We provide RICS regulated building surveying and project advisory support. Statutory fire engineering opinion, formal fire risk assessment, FRAEW sign-off and specialist certification are distinct roles that require specific competence and insurance. Where an instruction needs them, we confirm competence, insurance and appointment scope before proceeding and coordinate with competent fire specialists rather than implying that input is covered. This careful boundary protects the client and ensures the right professional signs the right document.

It can, and it often should. FRAEW and PAS 9980 external wall appraisal, facade investigation, fire compartmentation surveys and fire door inspections frequently provide the most important building safety evidence for a higher-risk building. We help scope which surveys are actually needed, coordinate them, and bring the findings together as structured building safety evidence rather than a set of disconnected reports.

Yes. We provide a readiness review: a building information and evidence gap analysis, a recommended survey route, and help organising technical information so the dutyholder is prepared for engagement with the Building Safety Regulator. The application itself, and the statutory duties around it, remain with the Principal Accountable Person, and we do not guarantee Building Safety Regulator acceptance — that decision rests with the regulator.

Accountable Persons, Principal Accountable Persons, managing agents, freeholders, resident management companies, right to manage companies, housing associations and local authorities commonly instruct this support for higher-risk residential buildings. Managing agents and freeholders often instruct on behalf of, or alongside, the Accountable Person, and we frame the work so it can be relied on by boards, leaseholders and the dutyholder.