CICAIR

On 31 March 2024 CICAIR Ltd.’s (“CICAIR”) designation by the Secretary of State in England and the Welsh Minister in Wales, to maintain and operate the Construction Industry Council Approved Inspectors Register (“the Register”) was withdrawn.

Following royal assent of the Building Safety Act 2022, the Health and Safety Executive (‘‘HSE’’) established a new regulatory body, the Building Safety Regulator (“BSR”).

BSR has three main functions:

1. Overseeing the safety and standards of all buildings;

2. Regulation of the building control profession; and

3. Leading implementation of the new regulatory framework for ‘higher-risk’ buildings.

As part of the second function mentioned above, BSR will establish and maintain a register of building inspectors and a separate register of building control approvers (“the BSR Registers”), as a means of regulating the standards of building control professionals and increasing accountability across the sector. This will subsume CICAIR’s current role in maintaining and operating the Approved Inspectors Register with effect from April 2024.

Further information on the new regulatory regime for the building control profession can be found below.

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Complaints about an Approved Inspector

Investigations relating to the conduct of Approved Inspectors that were either not started by CICAIR, or were not concluded, were passed on to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

If you lodged a complaint with CICAIR prior to the end of CICAIR’s designation, a member of the BSR team will contact you about your complaint.

CIC no longer holds any data or information about Approved Inspectors and all data was passed to the BSR.  

If you have any questions, please contact the Building Safety Regulator 

Guidance about contacting the BSR is here: Contact the Building Safety Regulator - GOV.UK