The Three-Tiered Compliance Shield

THE MARIS METHODOLOGY:

THE THREE-TIERED COMPLIANCE SHIELD

We refuse to treat statutory compliance as an administrative afterthought. At Maris Interiors, we engineer regulatory protection directly into the fabric of your project, absorbing the immense legal weight of the delivery phase through three distinct layers of governance:

Tier 1: Duty Holder Assumption
Under the rigorous new Building Safety Act and CDM 2015 regulations, the employer holds ultimate liability. We protect our clients by formally assuming the statutory roles of both Principal Designer and Principal Contractor from day one.

Tier 2: The Golden Thread
Infrastructure We take total ownership of your digital compliance. We collate all technical specifications, fire strategies, and material provenance data into a secure, unified electronic facility, ensuring accurate building data remains accessible throughout the asset’s lifetime.

Tier 3: Proactive Change
Control After Gateway 2 approval is granted, any mid-project design alteration must be formally categorised. We deploy rigorous early-stage design freezes to prevent “major changes” that would legally require work to stop for up to six weeks while awaiting regulatory re-approval.

THE LEGAL COUNSEL & CEO’S CORNER:

PIERCING THE CORPORATE VEIL

Shielding the executive board from severe new liabilities and remediation orders.

For the Chief Executive Officer and General Counsel, the Building Safety Act 2022 introduces unprecedented corporate exposure through Building Liability Orders and Remediation Contribution Orders. The Act introduces revolutionary legal mechanisms that allow parties to pierce the corporate veil to recover the costs of defective work. Building Liability Orders and Remediation Contribution Orders mean that the original developer and their associated corporate entities can be pursued for remediation costs if a building is found to be unsafe. This prevents organisations from using complex corporate structures or special purpose vehicles to shield themselves from historical construction liabilities.

Furthermore, the Defective Premises Act 1972has been heavily amended, extending the prospective liability period for claims from six years to fifteen years. The CEO must ensure that the chosen procurement partner possesses the financial stability and the requisite 15 year Professional Indemnity insurance policies to match this extended statutory liability period. Entering into a contract with a fragile supply chain is now an existential threat to the enterprise. By partnering with a robust, integrated entity like Maris, the executive board ensures that safety occurrences are monitored through a Mandatory Occurrence Reporting system and that all statutory duties are flawlessly executed, actively shielding the enterprise from regulatory prosecution and reputational ruin.

MARIS TOOLS:

Diagnostic instruments to govern legal obligations and digital record keeping. Deploy these specific governance frameworks to ensure absolute compliance with the Building Safety Regulator.

• The Gateway 2 Validator: A comprehensive technical audit of the Stage 4 design package ensuring that all sub-contractor design portions are fully detailed and coordinated before submission to the regulator.
• The Golden Thread Portal: A secure, cloud based common data environment where all material provenance data, fire strategies and operational manuals are digitally stored and updated in real-time.
• The Controlled Change Log: A strict commercial tracking tool that categorises any client-driven scope changes as major, notifiable, or recordable to prospectively assess the time and cost impacts of regulatory rejection before physical work is altered.