Dame Judith Hackitt's recommendations are now being firmed up, so watch this space.
Ringley CEO Mary-Anne Bowring was joined by Life by Ringley MD Sam Hay at an RICS event in Manchester in November to talk about the future of building safety.
Last month, we blogged about the ?golden thread? of data that Dame Judith Hackitt?s building safety review is recommending should be established for every high-risk residential building (ie, one that is 10 storeys or higher) in the country. The review also sets out the framework for a new ?Joint Competent Authority? to ensure that safety is placed firmly at the heart of the property industry.
The Hackitt review proposes the new JCA should have an overarching role, bringing together local authority building standards, fire and rescue authorities and the HSE. The report recognises the role that the CDM regulations have had in improving accountability and responsibility for safety and sees a future where these bodies all work together to maximize the focus on building safety within HRRBs across the entire building lifecycle. The recommendation is this: the best way to get genuinely effective safety management is to establish a new body that ensures feed in from other bodies is made an absolute requirement.
As we explained in our previous blog, one of the key responsibilities of the proposed JCA will be to create and maintain a database of all HRRBs and key duty holders for those buildings ? whether under construction or already occupied. It will also ensure duty holders focus on mitigating building safety risks during the design and construction phase.
A new role of building safety manager will also be created ? above and beyond the role of the property manager. The increased focus on reducing ongoing safety risks in HRRBs is not the property manager?s job ? and is certainly not achievable within the same base management fee per unit.
The responsibilities that will fall to the building safety manager are likely to include:
03/09/2020
Author : Mary-Anne Bowring
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