A Midlands building consultancy is reviving the concept of a clerk of works as building safety and compliance becomes increasingly important.
Birmingham-headquartered The Construction Consultants (TCC) is offering a clerk of works service to help developers ensure their projects are safe and comply with specification and regulations.
TCC was co-founded by director Alex Pimley MCIOB, and fellow director Gareth Powell is also a CIOB member.
Co-founder Sandeep Singh Sunner said that, since Grenfell, rigorous compliance had become more important and the position of clerk of works, which had fallen out of favour in recent years, was key to that process.
“At TCC we are able to offer a clerk of works service to provide meticulous building defect inspections and to ensure compliance with specifications and regulations,” he said.
“Ultimately this will result in high-quality construction throughout the project life cycle.”
TCC’s clerk of works service includes thorough building inspection by a professional qualified by the Institute of Clerk of Works and Construction Inspectorate.
The service is designed to identify and address any defects and ensure the highest construction standards are met, as well as specification and regulation compliance and continuous quality assurance in order to minimise impacts on cost, programme and overall quality.
Well done – I hope this is the start of an industry wide initiative and has longevity. The name CoW, may change but a trained specialist, of whatever nomenclature, independently focused only on quality and compliance (over and above building control) is the key to ensuring quality and safe fitness-for-purpose, sadly eroded over the last few decades.