Master Design Risk Management and new duty holder roles to navigate the evolving regulatory landscape. Transform safety from a checklist into a core driver of architectural excellence.
Architects make decisions every day that influence how safely buildings are designed, constructed, and lived in. This fast-moving, practical webinar gives you the tools to understand your duties, identify safety-critical elements, manage design risk, and build healthier environments.
Through real case lessons, interactive exercises, and practical frameworks, you’ll see how good design, good documentation, and good communication directly shape safer outcomes for users, contractors, and your own practice.
Key topics covered in this course include:
Principal, Ostime Consulting
Drawing on over 30 years’ experience as a registered architect, Nigel delivers risk management and productivity improvement services to medium and large-sized practices through Ostime Consulting. His experience includes seven years as director of a large practice, three as director of a startup modular housing company and for the last 9 years leading project delivery at Hawkins\Brown, where he continues to work, alongside the consultancy business. His work includes contract negotiation and price discrimination advice alongside facilitating client feedback based on research he led for RIBA into ‘what clients want’. He also develops management systems, standard forms, and procedures for maintaining error-free, efficient project management and provides guidance on the requirements of the Building Safety Act. Nigel is the author of a number of books for RIBA and lectures on professional practice at several schools of architecture.
