Publication - Advice and guidance

High risk buildings - verification during construction: industry guidance

Published: 28 May 2026
Directorate: Local Government and Housing Directorate
Topic: Building, planning and design
ISBN: 9781807752248

Additional steps that design teams and contractors should follow when preparing and submitting building warrant applications, through to the submission of completion certificates for defined High Risk Buildings (HRBs), to support implementation of phase 1 of the Compliance Plan Approach (CPA).

Part of

Building standards: verification and certification

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Contractor Design Portion (CDP) Recommendations - CQIC | Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative

2 Building standards: procedural handbook: sections 3.11.1 and 5.4

3 Grenfell Tower Inquiry phase 2 report: Scottish Government response - gov.scot

4 Building standards compliance and enforcement review: report - gov.scot

5 Scottish Building Standards Hub - INFOP43 Verification of cladding remediation work Jan 2026.pdf

6 ‘duly authorised agent’ is the term used in The Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and on the statutory completion certificate form to identify a person acting on behalf of an applicant or relevant person.

7 Once the Compliance Plan Manager is set within legislative change, both they and the verifier will update the live compliance plan (subject to legislative change).

8 The Compliance Plan Manager Role will be introduced by anticipated legislative change.

9 High risk buildings - verification during construction: compliance plan approach - background and implementation - gov.scot

10 Building standards: verification and certification - gov.scot

11 Verification During Construction - High Risk Buildings Verifiers Guidance to Support Implementation of Phase 1 of Compliance Plan Approach

12 Prewarrant Compliance and Procedural Model form

13 Building standards - gov.scot - overview of the building standards system

14 Appendix 2 - PreWarrant Compliance and Procedural Model Form

15 Contractor Design Portion (CDP) Recommendations - CQIC | Construction Quality Improvement Collaborative

16 Section 4 of the Building (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 2004

(3) The applicant shall if required by the verifier at any stage submit to the verifier–

(a)such further information or additional plans; or

(b)such further copies (not exceeding two) of the application or of the plans submitted with the application as the verifier may direct.