CDM Advisor Services

At ONFORM, we provide professional CDM Advisor and Principal Designer services under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015). Our role is to help clients, developers, and designers meet their legal duties, ensuring health and safety is embedded into every stage of a construction project.

With over 17 years’ hands-on construction and surveying experience, and as Chartered Building Surveyors (MRICS), we combine practical site knowledge with regulatory expertise to safeguard compliance and reduce risk from concept design through to project completion.

What is CDM 2015 and Why Does it Matter?

The CDM Regulations place legal responsibilities on clients, designers, and contractors to ensure health and safety is properly managed during construction. Failure to comply can lead to project delays, enforcement action, and legal liability.

Appointing a competent CDM Advisor or Principal Designer ensures your statutory obligations are met and risks are proactively managed.

Our CDM Services Include:

  • Client Duties Support – Advising clients on their statutory obligations under CDM 2015.

  • Principal Designer Role – Acting as PD on projects where required, coordinating design risk management across all consultants.

  • Pre-Construction Information (PCI) – Compiling, reviewing, and issuing PCI packs to the project team.

  • Design Risk Reviews – Identifying and recording significant design risks, ensuring these are addressed at the earliest stage.

  • Coordination of Consultants – Ensuring architects, engineers, and specialists cooperate on health & safety risk management.

  • Construction Phase Plan (CPP) – Reviewing contractor CPPs to ensure compliance before works commence.

  • Health & Safety File – Preparing and maintaining the Health & Safety File for handover at project completion.

  • Ongoing Compliance Advice – Providing practical, proactive advice throughout the design and construction phases.

💡 Most of our clients combine CDM Advisor or Principal Designer services with our Project Management, Contract Administration, or Employer’s Agent (Design & Build) roles. This ensures that statutory health & safety duties under CDM 2015 are fully integrated with the contractual and project management framework, giving a seamless approach from design risk management through to construction and handover.

Learn more about our Project Management services → | Contract Administration services → | Employer’s Agent services →

  • Chartered Building Surveyors (MRICS) with over 18 years’ industry experience.

  • Practical understanding of design, risk, and construction site processes.

  • Independent, impartial, and professional approach.

  • Experience acting clients across residential and commercial projects.

  • Covering Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, London and the surrounding areas.

Why Choose ONFORM?

Why Choose ONFORM?

📞 Contact ONFORM today to discuss our CDM Advisor and Principal Designer services in Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey, or London.

  • Director at Large Architectural Practice

    "To be honest, you are probably one of the best Project Managers / Employer's Agent we have ever worked with. My colleague wasn’t sure what your role was, and I had to explain it to her using examples from other projects. She was shocked at how knowledgeable and proactive you were compared to others we have worked with!"

  • Private Client for Bespoke Luxury New Build Home

    “Theo is an outstanding project manager / contract administrator. He has superb attention to detail; he is phenomenally hard-working; and he is thoroughly dependable. Engaging Theo has given us tremendous confidence that our project will be delivered on time and on budget. We couldn’t ask for more.”