Service

Principal Contractor, Principal Designer & CDM

An integrated approach to health, safety and delivery, including works carried out by our own direct labour teams and approved supply chain.

  • Client & End User
  • Education Sector
  • Subcontractor
A new all weather sports surface at a primary school

What this covers

  • Principal Contractor duties through the construction phase
  • Principal Designer duties through pre-construction
  • CDM advisory for clients discharging their legal duties
  • Construction phase plans, RAMS review and site management
  • Coordination of contractors, designers and stakeholders
  • Pre-construction information and health and safety files
  • Delivery through direct labour or our approved supply chain

Health and safety and delivery are the same conversation. Treating them separately is how projects end up unsafe, late or both.

As Principal Contractor

We plan, manage, monitor and coordinate the construction phase: site set up and segregation, construction phase plans, method statements and risk assessments, inductions, and day to day supervision of every contractor on site.

As Principal Designer

We lead health and safety through pre-construction, coordinating the design team to eliminate and control risk at source, issuing pre-construction information and developing the health and safety file properly rather than as a box-ticking exercise at handover.

In live and sensitive environments

A great deal of our work happens in schools, care settings and working factories. Segregation, safeguarding, DBS checked operatives and sensible working hours are planned in from the start, not bolted on.

Questions

Common questions

Do you carry out the works yourselves?

Projects can be delivered using our experienced direct labour teams or through our approved supply chain, with Hauxley Group holding the Principal Contractor duties either way.

We are a school. Do we have CDM duties?

Almost certainly. Trusts and schools commissioning building work are clients under CDM 2015, and we advise on what that means in practice and take on the duties that can be delegated.

Related work

Projects we have delivered

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