Your one stop partner for meeting your BSA obligations

As professionally qualified construction professional with over 40 years of experience in construction, we are proud of our extensive knowledge of how to design and build regulation compliant  buildings. 

You probably believe that all professionally qualified people should be able to offer the service that BSA Audit is offering. If so, here is something to consider.

Following the report of Dame Judith Hackett and the Grenfell Enquiry, there have been recommendations for areas needing improvement in the construction sector. These include necessary training required in the professional consultant sector to improve knowledge of the regulations, improvement in the knowledge of building safety design along with the principles of fire safety design. To this end the Royal Institute of British Architecture has devised a learning programme for its members which is a compulsory. They have recently published new guidance books to assist Architects to deliver both safe and fire compliant buildings. 

An excerpt from the RIBA Principal Designer's Guide (2024) introduction states this:

"The considerable work undertaken by government and leading figures in the construction industry since the Grenfell Tower fire has sought to ensure that such systemic failure never occurs again, making explicit in the law the responsibilities of every member of the project team to meet the minimum requirements of regulation.

The duties and building control regime introduced by the Building Safety Act 2022 and the statutory instruments enacted under it, are particularly relevant to architects and lead designers, who have a moral and ethical imperative to acknowledge, accept and discharge their responsibilities for leading the design team in way that results in a safe, sustainable and accessible built environment. Adopting an attitude of personal responsibility is even more important for architects proposing to undertake principal designer services, and yet more so for those providing principal designer services in respect of higher-risk buildings' (RIBA 2024).

At BSA Audit, we believe that these words and the action taken by the RIBA to improve its members is telling about the state of the industry and the competency of its professional members. Sadly there are organisations still out there that believe its business as usual following the same  behaviours which enabled the Grenfell Tower tragedy believing the change necessary doesn't apply to them.

Therefore it is BSA Audits mission to identify and educate where necessary until the required behaviours and competency has been established across the industry. The biproduct of this endeavour will also ensure non professional clients on small projects   are kept safe in their duties too.

There are many non qualified people operating in the smaller domestic market. Even if qualified, there are also light touch appointments with reduced services tailored to fit smaller fees which do not always ensure statutory obligations are met by designers. BSA Audit will demystify your project, the competency of the team employed to undertake, any areas lacking a responsible party and recommendations of what to do to fix it.