Principal Designer competence

Principal Designer competence

1. Functional requirements

   • Comply with the Building Regulations
   • Cooperate with other persons
   • Ask for assistance
   • Refuse to carry out work if cannot meet main requirement
   • Refuse to carry out work if beyond competence
   • plan, manage, monitor design work
   • Coordinate design work
   • facilitate cooperation between design team and other dutyholders
   • Coordinate work of design team
   • encourage designers to comply with their duties under the APICD
   • LIaise with the Principal Contractor
   • Maintain information relevant to planning, management, and monitoring of building work, and the coordination of design work with the building work
   • Have regard for comments from the Principal Contractor
   • Assist the client in providing information to designers and contractors
   • Technical functions

2. Baseline competences

   • Understanding of Governance
     • Legal framework
     • Compliance
     • Roles, responsibilities, and accountability
     • Golden thread of information
     • Due diligence, evidence, and personal responsibility
     • Information management
   • Understanding of Leadership
     • Ethical behaviour
     • Leadership
     • Communication and engagement
     • Teamwork and motivation
   • Understanding of building systems and safety
     • Building design for fire safety
     • building design for structural safety
     • Building design for building services design, user behaviour and related risk factors
     • Interacgion of sytems and compoents
   • Undersatnding of Management
     • Design coordination
     • Project management
     • Risk management
     • Procurement
     • Change management
     • People management