Criteria for determining whether a new building that is being designed and constructed is a "higher-risk building"

Publication Year

2023

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Provides guidance on the process of determining whether a new building that is being designed and constructed is a higher-risk building under the Building Act 1984 (as amended by the Building Safety Act 2022) and the Higher-Risk Buildings (Descriptions and Supplementary Provisions) Regulations 2023. Covers: guidance for understanding whether the proposed new building is a higher-risk building in the design and construction phase of the regime; use criteria; building definition; counting storeys and measuring height; and glossary.

Document History

Sourced from https://www.gov.uk/guidance/criteria-for-determining-whether-a-new-building-that-is-being-designed-and-constructed-is-a-higher-risk-building 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 19 October 2023.

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