Did you know? Common questions to BSR on resident engagement and managing high-rise buildings.

Andy McGrory, Policy Lead for Resident Engagement answers some of the common questions put to the Building Safety Regulator on resident engagement and managing high-rise residential buildings. These questions were part of our recent webinars and we've taken the opportunity to answer them here for more clarity.
00:08 - Question 1: Can a managing agent - appointed by the directors of a Resident Management Company - be the Principal Accountable Person?
00:54 - Question 2: Is an individual director of a Resident Management Company the Principal Accountable Person?
01:18 - Question 3: Is an individual director of a Resident Management Company personally liable for any breach of the law - or is the Resident Management Company responsible?
03:08 - Question 4: Is the Accountable Person the same as the Responsible Person?
03:50 - Question 5: Do I require a type 4 Fire Risk Assessment including intrusive inspection of compartmentation?
05:18 - Question 6: Do I have to have an intrusive structural survey of my building?
06:35 - Question 7: Do I have to use consultants?
07:24 - Question 8: What is the format of the safety case report and what information should it contain? Will the Building Safety Regulator be producing a template?
08:28 - Question 9: Where there is a number of individual HRBs in a development does each one need a safety case, a safety case report and a residents engagement strategy, even where much of the information is the same or similar?
10:14 - Question 10: What is the hourly rate charged by the Building Safety Regulator to assess a Safety Case Report?
11:03 - Question 11: How many hours on average will it take the Building Safety Regulator to assess a safety case report?
12:36 - Question 12: Does resident engagement mean we have to do everything everyone wants?
13:20 - Question 13: If a Building Assessment Certificate application is refused, is the building unsafe and will everyone have to move out?
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