Design and building work: meeting building requirements

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Explains how clients, designers and contractors can meet the duties and competence requirements for building regulations. Covers: higher-risk buildings; clients' duties; designers' duties; principal designers' duties; contractors' duties; principal contractors' duties; competence requirements; individual competence; organisational capability; trainee competence; change in competence; principal designers: competence requirements; principal contractors: competence requirements; demonstrating and assessing competence; competence standards and benchmarking; and Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.wales/design-and-building-work-meeting-building-requirements and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 18 June 2026.

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