CDM 2015

The following is taken from the HSE website. Subject to Parliamentary approval, new Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) will come into force on 6 April 2015. About this guidance This draft Legal (L) Series guidance [2] is on the legal requirements for CDM 2015. It’s being made available before the Regulations come into force on 6 April to help anyone who has duties under the Regulations to prepare in advance. Please note the draft Regulations within the guidance have been amended following consultation. The Regulations and this draft Legal series guidance may be subject to change while the Regulations are awaiting Parliamentary approval. The final version of the Legal series guidance to support CDM 2015 will be available on 6 April 2015. What will change? Principal designer. The replacement of the CDM co-ordinator role (under CDM 2007) by principal designer. This means that the responsibility for coordination of the pre-construction phase – which is crucial to the management of any successful construction project – will rest with an existing member of the design team. Client. The new Regulations recognise the influence and importance of the client as the head of the supply chain and they are best placed to set standards throughout a project. Competence. This will be split into its component parts of skills, knowledge, training and experience, and – if it relates to an organisation – organisational capability. This will provide clarity and help the industry to both assess and demonstrate that construction project teams […]

T4 ABF Baggage Facility

Construction of a new building to enclose a recently extended baggage facility at Terminal 4, Heathrow, for Vinci Group. Production Design period 26 weeks. Project on site now – Jan 2013– Approx £5m. Architectural and civils production design and construction support services. T4 ABF is an existing baggage facility, adjacent to the aircraft stands. The facility had recently been extended to meet the growth in passenger numbers, and a temporary scaffold structure had been provided to protect the nely extedned baggage facility and the operators. The project involved constructing a new building over the baggage facility, linking to the existing building, and forming a new blast wall at the aircraft stand lboundary. The baggage facility was to remain fully operational during the construction phase, requiring attention to detail to ensure the correct interfaces with the existing structures and operational areas were maintained.