CDM & Principal Designer Consultancy
Through our team of certified, experienced practitioners, TFT provides Principal Designer, Designer and CDM Client Adviser services across the UK property industry. Whether providing strategic or project-specific consultancy, we aim to remove any confusion over the various duty holder’s obligations, ensuring clients, designers and contractors get the most appropriate and timely advice to enable them to meet their duties regarding health and safety.
Health and safety. It’s a familiar phrase to us all in construction. For most clients, designers and contractors, safety has become second nature, all able to readily identify safety hazards, assess the risks and eliminate, reduce and control them, passing this information on to those that need it.
Health is a different matter. Statistically, the effects and cost of work-related ill-health far outweigh those of injuries and deaths, but less regard is paid to considering and designing out health hazards, with too much reliance still placed on personal protection rather than collective, preventative measures, designed in. Our training and rigorous design risk management ensures we identify and deal with the hazards, risks and opportunities for safe and healthy design at all stages of our involvement, for the benefit of everyone who may interact with the building through its life cycle.
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Dominic Thomas
Dominic is TFT’s Director of CDM Services and is responsible for managing the team of CDM consultants at the London office in the delivery of CDM Principal Designer, Principal Designer Advisor and Client CDM Advisor services to support Clients, Developers and Designers in compliance with the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2015.
He has a background in managing CDM teams at multi-disciplinary consultancies, where he has worked alongside colleagues in architecture, engineering, project management and surveying. As a full Member of the Chartered Institute of Building, he is a multi-skilled construction professional and CDM consultant, qualified in construction, occupational health and safety, fire safety and building safety. He is an advocate for building safety and has supported his teams and Clients in preparation for the introduction of the Building Safety Act and its secondary legislation.
Dominic’s experience spans a range of sectors including residential, commercial real estate, aviation, infrastructure, modular construction, demolition, refurbishment and conversion works, and remedial works including fire safety remedials and recladding.
Ashley Morris
Ashley is a Director based at TFT’s Bristol office, joining in 2002. He leads TFT’s Construction, Design & Management (CDM) Regulations advisory service, providing Principal Designer, Principal Designer Adviser and CDM Client Advisor roles across the country to a wide variety of clients seeking strategic and practical advice on compliance with the regulations.
Ashley also deals extensively with Party Wall and Neighbourly matters, helping to set up the local Severnside Branch of the Pyramus & Thisbe Club, providing best practice advice in party wall matters. He served as inaugural Secretary and Treasurer of the Branch from its inception in 2007 until 2017.Other specialisms include Technical Due Diligence and quality monitoring on commercial and residential schemes, including defects diagnosis and resolution.
A regular presenter of internal and external CPD sessions on both CDM 2015 and party wall matters, Ashley is also responsible for coordinating CPD events for the Bristol office, and has been published in the RICS Building Surveying Journal.
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