Principal Designer & CDM
Health and safety competence built into the design, not bolted on afterwards.
What this service covers
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 place hard duties on the client and require the appointment of a Principal Designer on every notifiable project. We take that appointment and discharge it properly — leading design-team co-ordination on health and safety, producing pre-construction information, monitoring for foreseeable risks through the design stages, and preparing the health and safety file for handover.
We support clients in discharging their own CDM duties: mobilising a competent design and construction team, ensuring adequate time and resources are allowed, and confirming welfare provision at site level. For residential clients on notifiable domestic projects, we advise on where the client duties transfer to the contractor and where they do not.
Our Principal Designer work is grounded in an understanding of how West Sussex construction sites actually run — coastal weather, heritage constraints in Chichester and Arundel, urban co-ordination in Worthing and Crawley — rather than a generic checklist.
Typical deliverables
- Principal Designer appointment and duty discharge
- Pre-Construction Information (PCI)
- Design risk register
- Design co-ordination meeting minutes
- Health and Safety File at completion
When to call us
At project inception on any notifiable project, before design work begins in earnest.
Principal Designer & CDM across West Sussex.
We provide principal designer & cdm services across West Sussex from our Worthing office. Our work spans the coast, the market towns and Mid Sussex — we travel to sites and meetings across the county.
Other services from CSQS Ltd.
RICS Level 2 Homebuyer Survey
The mid-level RICS home survey for conventional houses and flats in reasonable condition, carried out to the RICS Home Survey Standard.
RICS Level 3 Building Survey
The most detailed RICS home survey, for older, larger, altered, listed or non-standard properties — a full analysis of construction and condition.
Preconstruction & Feasibility
Order-of-cost, feasibility and viability advice before you commit to a scheme.
Cost Planning & Quantity Surveying
Elemental cost plans, bills of quantities and pricing schedules aligned to RICS NRM1 and NRM2.
Talk to us about your project
We reply to emails quickly, and we meet in person across West Sussex — Worthing, Chichester, Horsham, Crawley and everywhere between.
Whether you have a scheme at feasibility, a project going out to tender, a contract that needs administering or a dispute that has already started, the first conversation is free and useful.