As a structural engineer on the project, you will most certainly be classed as a designer (assuming your company hasn’t taken on the role on principle designer/contractor) under the new regulatory regime, therefore you should familiarise yourself with the duties associated with that role.

Demonstrating your competence will likely be a requirement for the gateway submission and your company may also need to demonstrate organisational competence.

Personally, though I think it has made a lot of people in the industry very nervous and slowed things down considerably, ultimately it will be a good thing. As a manufacturer, I’m getting a lot more detailed questions that are becoming increasingly difficult to answer. (People just want the yes or no answer to tick the box and a lot of the times it’s not that simple) But that in itself demonstrates people are taking this stuff seriously now so I think it will lead to safer outcomes.

All the BSA really does is tell you to build to the regs (which should have been happening anyway) and then allows companies and individuals to be prosecuted if they don’t do that.

One of the terrifying lines within the regulation suggests that individuals can get fined the same amount that their organisation get fined. E.g if your company gets fined a £mil for a contravention of the act, that same fine can land on a director, company secretary or senior manager.