Client’s Responsibilities
As the client, you must maintain and manage critical building information to ensure compliance with building regulations. Your key responsibilities include:
1. Keep Detailed Records:
- Document compliance with building work duties
- Record management processes to align with project plans
2. Share Information:
- Provide essential building information to all designers and contractors
3. Digital Record-Keeping System:
- Implement a secure system with version control
- Store essential documents:
- Drawings and plans
- Competence declarations
- Construction and change control plans/logs
- Compliance statements
- Fire and emergency files
- Client authorizations
- Site location plans
- Reporting plans
- Planning statements
- Partial completion strategies
4. Completion Phase:
- Apply for a completion certificate when work is finished
- Provide information to the principal accountable person or Responsible Person, including:
- Documents for building control approval and completion certificate applications
- The building completion certificate
- Access and control information
- Fire safety information
Principal Designer’s Responsibilities
As the principal designer, you must keep all design information up to date and work with the principal contractor to:
- Record and evidence design work during construction.
- Assist the client in providing necessary information.
- Share relevant building work information.
You must also ensure:
- Effective communication between designers.
- Capture and share relevant information.
Principal Contractor’s Responsibilities
As the principal contractor, you must use the client’s record-keeping system to keep building information current. You must:
- Assist the client in providing necessary information.
- Collaborate with the principal designer to share relevant information.
- Facilitate communication among all contractors.
- Keep evidence of compliance with building regulations.
- Work with the design team to manage changes.
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