Scottish Building Regulations: Fire Safety review and Compliance: Call for Evidence

As part of the Compliance Plan Approach (CPA) to compliance with building regulations and standards the role of Compliance Plan Manager (CPM) will be introduced on defined building warrant projects.

The CPM will be introduced as a mandatory requirement after legislation is amended, when the role and its appointment by the Relevant Person (RP) is defined. It is anticipated that as a minimum a Compliance Plan Manager will be a construction professional and have accreditation from an anticipated industry-led CPM competency scheme. The CPM is appointed by the RP (normally the building owner), not the builder or developer. The only time in terms of appointment where this cannot be the case is where the owner is the developer/builder.

This is to ensure that the CPM can act without bias, or conflict of interest, and provide their core function of supporting persons whose role it is to submit the building warrant Completion Certificate to meet their statutory requirements.

The CPM must be a competent construction professional with a significant range of knowledge and experience across a wide and often unpredictable variety of contexts

The Compliance Plan Approach is built on a principle of transparency of actions and behaviours. Planned actions to evidence compliance with building regulations are recorded on the building warrant compliance plan, together with identification of those expected and contracted to deliver the evidence.

It is intended that through legislative change, that the CPM will have a duty to report to the verifier, prior to completion certificate acceptance, any non-compliance with the building warrant and building regulations which have not otherwise been notified to the verifier.