Principal Designer's Handbook

1The Principal Designer Role

1. 1.1 Role overview
2. 1.2 Different role responsibilities
3. 1.3 Commercial projects
4. 1.4 Domestic projects
5. 1.5 Partial design service

1.1 Role overview

The Principal Designer must plan, manage and monitor the Pre-Construction Phase, and coordinate construction health and safety during this phase to ensure that the project is carried out without risk to health and safety (so far as is reasonably practicable; it is not possible to ensure that construction work is carried out without risk).

Pre-Construction Phase

The Pre-Construction Phase is any period during which design or preparatory work is carried out for a project, and often continues during the Construction Phase.

Preparation of Pre-Construction Information

The ...