The Association of Construction Design Management
Is an organization that promotes the integration of design and construction processes in the built environment industry for the benefit of the UK population.
It aims to improve the quality, efficiency, and sustainability of construction projects through better design management practices to create safe buildings and homes.
Core values of the Association are safety through competence, innovation, collaboration, professionalism, and excellence.
Mission Statement
To assist the UK construction industry to provide safe buildings and homes by supporting the objectives set out in the Dame Judith Hackitt report “Building a Safer Future” and as required by the building safety act 2022 and associated legislation.
We do this by providing a pathway for competence for those involved in the construction and management of the built environment and provide means of checking competencies for relevant duty holders under CDM2015 Regulations, the Building Safety Act 2005 and related legislation.
We seek to raise client awareness to recognise that the Principal Designer role is vital to safety within the built environment and not to be viewed as solely an administrative compliance necessity.
We seek to reconcile the gap between Designer and health and safety professional in the role of the principal designer within the built environment industry.
We seek to raise awareness of all relevant duty holders as to their need to comply with the building safety act 2022 (and related legislation) and to provide information and training pathways for them to achieve this compliance.
Undertakings
To operate to expected professional standards as a minimum and apply best practice where possible.
To be accountable to our members and the Public at large.
To run the Association on a not-for-profit basis and to invest any surplus profits into the Association to further the aims and objectives of the Association.
To support members’ desire to become competent and increase competence by mentoring, providing the career advice and offering accredited / CPD training courses commensurate to their learning requirements and prior learning knowledge base.
To subject the AoCDM to regular reviews with independent external assessment.
To work collaboratively with organisations within the construction and built environment industry to achieve the objective of creating safe buildings and homes for the UK at large.
The AoCDM operating policies will include the following principles;
- Be Inclusive
- Promote Equality and Diversity
- Practice Anti-slavery
- Promote gender equality
- Appeals and Complaints processes and procedures
- Invigilation standards and procedures
- Conflict of interest policy
- Health and Safety and workplace management policy
- Quality Assurance policy
- Examiner assessment and competence policy
- IQA assessment and policy
- Malpractice and Maladministration policies
- Privacy and data protection policy
- Environmental policy
- Safe guarding policy
- Ensure it is insured to the necessary level and for all relevant operations / services provisions.
Professional Standards
Board members must be Chartered members (or equivalent) of a recognised construction-related industry or profession and have a demonstrable track record of leadership, vision and demonstrate personal integrity and accountability.
Board members will be chosen from the following professions and professional bodies
- Architects (RIBA)
- Health and Safety Professionals (IOSH)
- Building Surveyors (RICS)
- Building Safety Managers (CIOB)
- Principal Contractors (CIOB)
- Legal Advisors
- Other professions / bodies to be determined
AoCDM to be registered under;
- ISO9001 (Quality Management)
- ISO 45001 (health and safety management)
- ISO / IEC 17024:2012 (Certifying body Conformity Assessment)
Immediate, intermediate and long-term policies
It is our aim to create a sustainable Association that will provide continuous and on-going support for the built environment industry.
To encourage collaborative partnerships with related bodies, such as IOSH, NEBOSH, CITB, CIOB, APS, representative principal contractor companies such as Lovells (etc.), social housing organisations such as FCHO etc., training companies such as Astutis etc.
Immediate Policy
To set up three registers based on the FLEX PAS 8670:2022 for;
- Principal Designers as defined by the CDM2015 Regulations and conforming to PAS 8671
- Principal Contractors as defined by the CDM2015 Regulations and conforming to PAS 8672
- Building Safety Managers as per the Building Safety Act 2022 and conforming to PAS8673
To conform with the objectives PAS 8671/2/3, these registers will be subject to BS EN ISO/IEC 17024 assessment and certification.
The registers will have different grades based on the competency levels as set out in the PAS criteria, e.g. CDM2015 Principal Designer, CDM2015+ Principal Designer and Higher Risk Building Principal Designer, in the case of PAS 8671.
The registration application process will have a matrix to identify knowledge / skills gap which will be communicated to the applicant. We undertake to work with the applicant to in-fill competency areas.
To allow persons operating in the built environment industry an opportunity to support their claim to competence by being independently assessed by the IDM against the PAS8671/2/3 standards.
To allow Clients, Responsible Persons (Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005) Principal Accountable Persons (building safety act 2022) and other interested parties to check individuals’ claim to competency by their being on the relevant AoCDM register.
To create a Training Faculty to assist those persons with identified competency / knowledge gaps by using ASPL materials and collaborating with leading H&S training providers.
This will give AoCDM access to a wide range of accredited courses, CPD and other appropriate training materials, on an immediate and minimal effort basis to provide a leaning platform to support people to achieve their desired competencies on an incremental and progressive basis.
Where there are identified gaps, to create unique training courses to bridge fknowledge and competency gaps in the provision of suitable and targeted training courses.
For instance, the development of principal designer NVQ diploma courses, levels 3, 4, 5 and 6.
To add conferences, webinars and other information-disseminating resources, including blogs.
To collaborate with other leaders in the industry to assist in their and the AoCDM’s objective of conforming to the Hackitt reports’ objectives.
Long Term Policy
To transfer to Institute status
To become the industry leader in construction design management education and registrations
To be sustainable for the foreseeable future
To expand to overseas operation in terms of setting standards and registration for duty holders in the construction industry