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 for a new Higher-Risk Building – 4 June 2026
- Guidance Note 01 – The Building Safety Regime for a new Higher-Risk Building – 4 June 2026
- 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
- Built Environment Competence Hub
- Guidance on Managing Competence in Organisations Across the Built Environment
- 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
- Guide to Products Critical to Safe Construction
- BSR Building Control Approval Application Data
Reports and Papers
- Building Control Independent Panel Report and initial Government Response – May 2026
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Progress Report – May 2026
- Building Safety Regulator Strategic Plan 2026 to 2027 – March 2026
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Government Annual Report – February 2026
- Construction Products Reform White Paper – February 2026
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Government Progress Report – December 2025
- Single Construction Regulator Prospectus – December 2025
- Grenfell Tower Inquiry Progress Report – September 2025
- Updated Remediation Acceleration Plan – July 2025
- 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

New and updated CLC HRB Building Safety guidance
Guidance notes published on the Fire and Emergency File and the Building Regulations Compliance Statement

BS 8670-2 Built environment. Core criteria for construction product competence.Code of Practice
Consultation launched by BSI

Navigating the Staged Application Process: A Practical Guide for Dutyholders
Register for a free webinar on Staged Applications for new Higher-Risk Buildings

PAS 2000:2026 – Construction Products – Bringing Safe Products to Market
BSI publishes Code of Practice

