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Hi All Does anyone have a template for a feasibility report which a CDM Principal Designer would do for a client?
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Hi Naz - I would expect the Feasibility Report to be done by one or more of the contracted Designers, rather than the CDM Principal Designer - in that capacity. [Of course the CDM Principal Designer would often be the Lead Designer, but it's important to recognise the distinctions between contractual scenarios and CDM statutory duties] A Feasibility Report should be looking at numerous issues, just one of which is health and safety risks at various points in the lifecycle of whatever structures are included within the scope of a project. There are plenty of feasibility reports in the public domain. Whether they might provide the sort of template you are looking for would depend heavily on the type(s) of projects you are dealing with. Need to be careful that you do not breach someone else's copyright!
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I don't know what you mean.
A feasibility report is not something CDM requires.
There's no requiremnt that feasibility reports be prepared only by a Principal Designer.
The format of a feasibility report that a designer would produce for a client will depend on what is being assessed for feasibility - the structure of a feasibility report for (say) a bridge between Ireland and Great Britain will be rather different to that of one for (say) refurbishment of an office's toilets. CDM is probably substantially irrelevant to the structure of the report, though it will possibly be addressed in the report (depending on the purpose and audience of the report - it may be mentioned only in so far as setting out asssumptions made by the author, for example).
Can you clarify what you have in mind.
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Thanks for the responses. When I say feasibility report, I mean just the CDM Principal Designer extract. A feasibility study has been carried out and I need to contribute to the report from a Principal Designer perspective i.e. design risks moving forward with phasing the project, M&E, asbestos etc. It is a simple report that gets added to the feasibility to inform the client of CDM Design risks moving forward. Edited by user 08 April 2022 07:45:10(UTC)
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Hi Naz Well that sounds like what some might call a Design Risk Register which might often be incorporated into a broader Risk Register - though how that would be presented and what it might be called would be likely to vary according to the nature of the project - as illustrated by the examples given by achrn. But....all the Designers on the project, if competent, should be used to working with such documentation. CDM 2015 changed the parameters for the role of Principal Designer compared to the previous roles of Planning Supervisor (CDM 1994) and CDM Co-ordinator (CDM 2007) with a view to ensuring that the role of PD is led by either the Client or a Designer working on the project. As one result the Association for Project Safety changed its rules for entry to various grades within APS. To get full membership someone would need both Design or Construction discipline qualifications and experience + a health and safety qualification, whereas an experienced health and safety professional with construction sector experience would only get to Incorporated status UNLESS they have those design/construction discipline qualifications (Not many of them around). So, it should probably be Client, Project Manager or Lead Designer who should be determining what format design risks are recorded in - it might be that the PD has one or more of those other hats. There is guidance as to possible formats e.g. in CIRIA publications.
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