Competency management
How we check and record the skills, knowledge, experience and behaviours of everyone who works for us, including subcontractors.
Building safety & handover
Windows are part of a building's safety case. We plan, record and hand over our work so you can show what was installed, by whom, and to what standard.
Documented procedures, not just a policy
Under the Building Safety Act 2022 and the amended Building Regulations, everyone carrying out building work has dutyholder responsibilities around competence and compliance. We've written specific, signed and version-controlled procedures for each area, and we work to them.
Our competent person scheme is FENSA (Reg. 45140), so replacement windows and doors we install in dwellings are self-certified as compliant with the Building Regulations and notified to building control.
Handover information
- Per opening
- Photo-evidenced QA
- Quality
- Inspection & test plan
- Products
- Spec & test evidence
- Compliance
- FENSA certificates
- Operation
- O&M manual
- Format
- Digital, per address
Eight written building-safety procedures
Each one is signed, dated and reviewed annually. Copies are available to clients and main contractors on request.
Supervision & instruction
How work is supervised and how information and instructions reach operatives on site.
Client duties awareness
Making sure domestic and commercial clients understand their duties under the Building Regulations.
Subcontractor competency
Fire and structural competency checks before any subcontractor works for us.
Dutyholder cooperation
Cooperating and sharing information with principal designers, principal contractors and other dutyholders.
Product quality & defects
Checking products on delivery and notifying defects or non-compliant products.
Planning, managing & monitoring
Planning and monitoring our work so it complies with the Building Regulations.
Information sharing
Providing accurate information to dutyholders and building owners at handover.
Information you can put straight into your building record
For higher-risk and multi-occupied buildings, the accountable person and principal contractor are responsible for the Golden Thread of building information. Our part is to give you accurate, organised information about the work we did:
- Product specifications and the fabricator's performance and security test evidence
- Photo records of each opening before, during and after installation
- Inspection and test plan records and snag close-outs
- FENSA certificates and an operation & maintenance manual
- Clear records of any deviation from the specified design
We don't claim to be "Golden Thread compliant", that's your building's duty. We make sure our part of it is complete and easy to use.
Fire-rated glazing
Where a specification calls for fire-resisting windows, doors or screens, we'll only propose systems with test evidence for the complete assembly, and we'll tell you at tender stage if a requirement sits outside our scope.
Where a specification calls for fire-resisting windows, doors or screens, we'll only propose systems with test evidence for the complete assembly, and we'll tell you at tender stage if a requirement sits outside our scope.
Need our procedures for a PQQ?
We'll send our building-safety procedures, H&S policy, RAMS and training matrix together.
Call Tommy on 020 7324 4804, send photos on WhatsApp to 07301 767786, or fill in the quote form.