Safety
Providing peace of mind for your project’s compliance with the CDM Regulations 2015 and the Party Wall Act, by giving the right information, to the right people, at the right time.
PRINCIPAL DESIGNER & CDM SERVICES
Expedite Safety provides a proactive and comprehensive Principal Designer (PD) service to support clients throughout the entire life of their projects. We carefully guide each project through the CDM Regulations 2015, ensuring your scheme fully complies. Our skill lies in meeting the necessary statutory requirements effectively, yet minimising bureaucracy and unnecessary paperwork and ensuring our clients are informed at every step of the way.
Typical services
- Assistance in developing the brief to incorporate H&S
- Pre Construction Information compilation
- Designers Risk Assessments and Risk Registers
- Assessing contractor’s information and site arrangements
- Site visits and H&S meetings
- Compilation of H&S Files at completion
PD appointments should be made as early as possible, to ensure health and safety is firmly embedded in your project from the start. This will ensure that the CDM Regulations are fully complied with and that the full benefits of design reviews are implemented and realised.
We are happy to discuss any type of project of any size and have worked with multiple commercial, public sector and residential clients, both in D&B and traditional contracts and across all major sectors. We understand the commercial and time pressures clients often face, as well as their health and safety obligations. We’re here to help you balance these project challenges and help deliver your project safely, on time and on budget.
In order to cater best to our client’s needs, we offer a bespoke consultancy CDM Adviser service to aid Clients, Designers or Principal Designers in fulfilling their role-specific duties under the CDM Regulations. This service has been designed to be flexible, ensuring we can cater to any working arrangement.
With years of experience and continuous training undertaken, we have an in-depth understanding of the CDM Regulations, specifically the roles of Designer and Principal Designer, our team is well-placed to provide all the guidance or support you may need. We hold Incorporated Membership of the Association for Project Safety (APS), CHAS Accreditation as Principal Designers and SSIP Membership. We oversee all CDM-related works in the Expedite group of companies.
PARTY WALL SURVEYOR SERVICES
Expedite Safety provides a professional and responsive service to support our clients throughout the Party Wall process. We adhere closely to the statutory requirements and ensure your Award is suitably fair and robust. Our skill lies in providing guidance at every stage of the process and providing the highest service.
The Party Wall Act, etc 1996 covers three distinct types of work:
- Alterations to a shared (party) wall,
- The construction of new walls on the boundary,
- Excavation works close to neighbouring properties.
The Party Wall Award, also referred to as a Party Wall Agreement, is a legal document prepared by the two appointed Party Wall Surveyors or the Agreed Party Wall Surveyor.
With training courses undertaken to gain an in-depth understanding of the Party Wall etc Act 1996, we hold Membership of the Faculty of Party Wall Surveyors (MFPWS) and handle Party Wall-related works within the Expedite group of companies.
WHEN DO I NEED A PARTY WALL SURVEYOR?
You must tell your neighbours if you want to carry out any building work near or on your shared property boundary, or ‘Party Wall’, in England and Wales. Party Walls stand on the land of at least 2 owners and usually form part of a building, but do not always have to form part of a building, such as in the case of a garden wall (timber fences do not count however).
Typical examples of relevant work may include:
- Building a new wall on your boundary,
- Cutting into a party wall,
- Making a party wall taller, shorter or deeper,
- Removing chimneys or other features from a party wall,
- Knocking down and rebuilding a party wall.
Walls on one owner’s land and used by other owners to separate their buildings are also party walls. You can also have a ‘party structure’, this could be a floor or other structure that separates buildings or parts of buildings with different owners, e.g. in the case of apartments and flats.
We can offer advice and guidance on your specific situation and explain whether your proposed works apply under the Act, as the criteria can be convoluted and difficult to understand at times. We will then talk you through the process in more detail if your works apply.
You must appoint a surveyor if you and your neighbour can’t agree or if you both want protection. You can appoint a surveyor together or each appoint your own. The surveyors will then agree on a ‘Party Wall Award’. This will establish what work should happen, how and when it will be carried out, who will pay for which part and how much will be paid (including the surveyor’s fees).