CSN Consulting LLP

New Front Entrance

Construction of a new teaching block to provide additional teaching accommodation for an existing secondary school. The single storey steel framed construction provides two general classrooms, an ICT Suite, offices and sanitary accommodation.

Scope of Works

• Provide professional services for new build project

Scope of Service Provided

• Acted as CDM Co-ordinator
• Completion of Feasibility Study
• Obtaining of Planning & Building Regulation Approval
• SBEM Energy calculation
• Production of Detailed Design
• Preparation of Specification
• Management of Tendering Process
• Contract Administration
• Acted as Client Quantity Surveyor
• Applied for funding on clients behalf & managed financial spend of full project
• Management of all furniture, furnishings & ICT equipment orders

Contract Value: circa £500k

Rear Elevation

Contract Period: 27 weeks

The introduction of the Fire Safety Order 2005 within England and Wales replaces and amalgamates previous fire safety legislation to impose a duty on “responsible persons” to carry out a fire risk assessments of the premises and ensure it is regularly reviewed.

Where the premises are licensed, or where five or more persons are employed, the responsible person must maintain records of assessments made and measures taken.
CSN have carried out fire risk assessments on behalf of responsible persons where the responsible person feels they are not competent to carry out the task themselves. Premises previously inspected include office buildings, higher education premises and the communal areas of large multi-tenanted residential developments.

We have also previously carried out fire risk assessments of hospital premises on behalf of local health authorities to the standard prescribed within Health Technical Memorandum No 86.

The introduction of the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 replaced the previous 1994 regulations and introduced the role of the “CDM Co-ordinator”.

The CDM 2007 Regulations impose certain duties on all parties who have an involvement with any construction project within the UK to ensure health and safety is considered throughout all stages of a project.

For all non-domestic construction projects likely to involve more than 30 days or 500 person days of work, the client has a duty to appoint a suitably competent person to perform the role of the CDM Co-ordinator.

CSN Consulting LLP have acted as CDM Co-ordinator for a wide range of projects including, demolition, refurbishment and new build schemes. As CDM Co-ordinators we provide advice and assistance to clients to ensure suitable co-ordinated arrangements are implemented while planning and preparing for the construction phase. Other duties also include notifying the Health and Safety Executive, ensuring the relevant information is provided to all parties, ensuring all designers comply with their duties under the Act and also to ensure co-operation between the Principal Contractor and all Designers during any onsite changes.

As CDM Co-ordinator we are also responsible for collecting information about the project which is likely to be relevant during the future use and maintenance of the building. This information is provided to the building user in the form of the Health and Safety File.