ABSTRACT
The principal designer role should not be considered an insignificant ‘bolt-on’ to a design service, and remuneration should be considered separately. Initial discussions about the role and scope of the client’s duties, the role and duties of the principal designer, and any possible additional services that the client may require should be used to establish the service agreement. Designers on domestic projects are advised to provide their client with a fee for both the design services and for undertaking the principal designer duties with their initial fee proposal if they wish to ensure that they have sufficient resources allocated to discharge their roles. Designers should critically assess their design proposals at an early stage, and then throughout the design process, to ensure that health and safety issues are identified, integrated into the overall design process and addressed as they go along.
