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
- CLC Guidance Suite – Building Control Approval Application for a new Higher-Risk Building (Gateway 2) – 21 July 2025
- Guidance Note 01 – The Building Safety Regime for a new Higher-Risk Building – 21 July 2025
- CLC Advisory Note – BS 9991:2024 – Fire Safety in the Design, Management and use of Residential Buildings. Code of Practice – March 2025
- CLC Report – Creating Safe Buildings – August 2024
- CLC Delivering the Golden Thread – August 2024
- CLC Delivering the Golden Thread – Summary Guide – August 2024
- CLC/BSR/OPSS Building Safety Webinars – August 2024
- Industry Competence Steering Group
- Competence
- Building Safety Regulator Be Ready Campaign
- Building Safety Regulator (BSR)
- Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS)
- Build UK – Building Safety Guide
- Code for Construction Product Information
- Collaborative Reporting for Safer Structures (CROSS)
- Guide to Managing Safety-Critical Elements in Building Construction
Reports and Papers
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Government Progress Report – May 2025
- Code of Practice for the Remediation of Residential Buildings – May 2025
- Construction Products Reform Green paper – February 2025
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report: Government response – February 2025
- Remediation Acceleration Plan – December 2024
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry – Phase 2 Report – September 2024
- An Independent Review of the Construction Products Testing Regime – April 2023
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry – Phase 1 Report – October 2019
- Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety: final report – May 2018
Governance
News

Guidance on Building Control Approval Applications for a New Higher-Risk Building (Gateway 2)
CLC publishes guidance suite produced in collaboration with industry stakeholders and the Building Safety Regulator

PAS 2000:2026 Construction Products – Bringing Safe Products to Market – Code of Practice
BSI launch consultation and free webinar