Designer information form

Your design risk information in whatever format you already hold it, usually your own drawings or risk register. Around ten minutes.

1. Project Reference & Your Role

As a designer under CDM 2015 (Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015), you must consider foreseeable risks created by your design, eliminate or reduce them where reasonably practicable, and provide information about significant residual risks to others. This form records the information the CDM Principal Designer (PD) needs to coordinate the Pre-Construction Information (PCI) and design risk information. It takes under ten minutes; your own risk assessment, register or drawings can be uploaded as they are, with nothing re-typed.

When to complete: We recommend completing this form after your first issue of design drawings, typically at RIBA Stage 2 or 3. If you are not yet at that stage, please let us know and we can agree a return date.

Abbreviations used in this form: CDM, Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 · PCI Pre-Construction Information · DRA Designer’s Risk Assessment · RRR Residual Risk Review · H&S Health and Safety · R&D survey Refurbishment and Demolition survey · TW Temporary Works · PD Principal Designer · PC Principal Contractor

Project Reference *

Your Role *

Please describe your role

Current design stage *

Helps us interpret whether your response is preliminary or final, and what further updates to expect.

Your Details

Your Full Name *

Company / Practice

Email Address *

Phone

Scope of Design Responsibility

Briefly describe the elements of the project you are designing or have design responsibility for *

Please provide the project reference, your role, design stage, name, email address and a brief scope description before continuing.

2. Duty Acknowledgement & Competence

The Principal Designer records competence information provided by designers for the Client's review. The Client remains responsible for taking reasonable steps to appoint duty holders with suitable skills, knowledge, experience and organisational capability under CDM 2015.

CDM Designer Duty Acknowledgement

I understand that I may have duties as a Designer under CDM 2015 where I prepare, modify, arrange or instruct design information for this project. This includes any elements where I take design responsibility, produce specifications, coordinate with other designers, or instruct design information on behalf of others.

Competence Statement

Briefly, your competence for work of this type and scale

A few lines is plenty. This is recorded for the Client's information under CDM 2015 Regulation 8; if you have a capability statement, you can upload it with your documents instead and say so here.

Professional Indemnity Insurance (optional)

CDM 2015 places no insurance duty on designers and we do not check or chase insurance. If you would like your PI details held on file for the Client's information, record or upload them here; otherwise skip this.

PI Insurance held?

Yes No Not applicable

Level of cover

Insurer

PI insurance expiry date

PI certificate (optional)

Max 10 MB per file.

4. Information You Need

Two quick lists, both optional. First, tick any existing information you need in order to complete your design. Second, tick anything your design has created a need for. If nothing applies, leave everything unticked and continue.

Existing information you need

Information triggered by your design

As a result of your design, is any additional information, input or specialist work required? Tick anything your design decisions have created a need for, whether or not it has been commissioned yet.

3. Design Risk Return & Documents

This section is the most important part of this form. A design risk is any residual risk created by your design that cannot be fully eliminated and which those constructing, using, or maintaining the building need to know about. Examples: structural steels requiring temporary propping during erection; confined spaces created by the layout; maintenance activities requiring access at height; materials requiring specialist handling or disposal. Please record anything significant. If you have no residual risks to report, confirm this explicitly below.

Further guidance: HSE, Designer duties under CDM 2015

How are you providing your design risk information?

It is included in my design information My drawings, specifications or calculations carry the design risk information (for example risk notes on the drawings). I will upload those documents below and name which ones carry it.

I will upload my own risk register or risk assessment I have a design risk register or risk assessment in my practice's standard format, I will upload it below.

I will provide my risk register later My risk information is not ready yet. I will email it to [email protected] when it is available. I understand this remains an open action until it is received.

Nil return Based on my current scope and the information available, I am not aware of any significant or unusual residual risks arising from my design other than ordinary construction risks that a competent contractor would be expected to manage.

Which of your documents carry the risk information? *

Upload the documents in the Documents block below. We read the risk information from them directly, so there is nothing to re-type.

Document name / reference *

Upload your risk register below, or send it separately to [email protected] with your project reference.

Summary comments or key items to highlight (optional)

Upload risk register / risk assessment

Max 10 MB per file. For larger files, email directly to [email protected] with your project reference.

When do you expect to provide your risk register? (optional)

Email your risk register to [email protected], quoting your project reference, when it is ready. This stays open on the CDM tracker until received.

Please select how you are providing your design risk information before continuing.

Documents

Upload drawings, calculations, reports, specifications or any other documents you are providing alongside this submission. For each file, select the document type and add a title or reference. Files that are too large to upload here can be sent separately to [email protected] with your project reference in the subject line.

Documents uploaded with this submission

Max 10 MB per file. For larger files, email directly to [email protected] with your project reference.

Documents you expect to provide later and approximate timing

5. Looking Ahead

Health & Safety File contributions

The Health & Safety File is handed to the Client at practical completion. It records information future owners, maintenance contractors, and future designers will need to safely maintain, alter, or demolish the building.

Does your design scope generate H&S File information?

Yes, my design generates H&S File information No, nil return: my scope generates no H&S File information TBC, I will confirm at a later stage

What to include:

Anything a future owner, contractor or designer would need to safely maintain, alter or demolish the building
As-built drawings for your scope
Safe working loads, load paths, and constraints on future structural alterations
Maintenance requirements and inspection intervals for any safety-critical system
If in doubt, include it, the file can always be refined; gaps cause problems

Tick the types of information your design will contribute

Any additional notes on H&S File contributions

Attach H&S File documents with this submission

Max 10 MB per file. For larger files, email directly to [email protected] with your project reference.

Contractor-designed (CDP) elements

Some elements of a project are designed by specialist contractors rather than the lead design team, for example, structural steelwork connections, piling, scaffold, or specialist glazing. These are known as contractor-designed (CDP) elements. As a designer, you are often best placed to identify where CDP design will be needed, so the Principal Contractor knows what to commission and can price it at tender.

This section is optional, tick any elements you anticipate will require contractor design input. If you are not aware of any at this stage, select “None anticipated” below.

I am flagging one or more CDP elements None anticipated at this design stage TBC, too early to confirm at this stage

What to include:

Elements where a specialist contractor will be responsible for the design, not just the installation
Any design constraints or information the CDP designer will need from your scope (e.g. load limits, interface details)
You do not need to name the CDP designer, the Principal Contractor will confirm this

Tick the CDP elements you anticipate

6. Declaration

Please read and confirm each item before generating your submission.

I understand that as a Designer under CDM 2015 (Regulation 9), I have a duty to plan, manage, monitor and coordinate my design work to eliminate or reduce foreseeable risks so far as is reasonably practicable, and to communicate residual risks to the Principal Designer. The information I have provided is accurate to the best of my knowledge and represents my current understanding of the design risks and information requirements arising from my scope of work at this stage. I will notify the Principal Designer promptly if my design changes significantly, if my assumptions change, if further information becomes necessary, or if new or previously unidentified hazards come to light after the date of this submission, so that the CDM documentation can be updated accordingly. I confirm that I have identified, to the best of my knowledge at the current design stage, the existing information and further supporting information required for my design or work package. I understand that omissions from this form do not transfer responsibility for those items to the Principal Designer.

Full name *

Date *

Please tick all three declarations and enter your name and date before generating.

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