Building Safety

Scope

Champion and support the delivery of high quality, safe buildings for those who live and work in them.

Mission

Our ambition is to create an industry within which everyone understands and fulfils their role and responsibilities, and a culture in which building safety is the overriding priority, where safe designs are properly constructed using suitable products and materials, and occupants are safe throughout the lifecycle of a building.

  • Regulatory Clarity: increasing regulatory clarity and improving the understanding of the regulations and their adoption by the industry;
  • Competence: leading industry competence, the development of standards, industry accreditation and driving the adoption of required behaviours;
  • Construction Products: supporting the clarification of product information and certification including testing;
  • Golden Thread: supporting better design and construction delivery through improving industry processes, skills and digital technologies; and
  • Professional Indemnity Insurance: developing partnerships and campaigns which unlock financially sustainable PII and other forms of insurance for those who deliver, own and occupy safer buildings.

Building safety is applicable to all buildings (it is not only for those who build and work on Higher-Risk Buildings) and across the built environment. This means all must play their part to procure, design, construct and manage buildings safely through the whole lifecycle.

Useful Resources

Reports and Papers

Governance

News