Vol. I · A regulatory atlas for builders, founders & policy explorers
An interactive map of every statute, dutyholder, gateway and product mark between a vacant site and an occupied building — drawn from the post-Grenfell UK regime and the European construction acquis. Read it as a landscape; mine it for product strategy.
A construction project moves through eight regulatory stages. Each carries its own dutyholders, statutory gates, and product opportunities. The post-Grenfell Building Safety Act 2022 reshaped the choreography for higher-risk buildings — but the lifecycle structure now applies, in spirit, to every UK build.
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 codified the modern dutyholder regime; the Building Safety Act 2022 hardened it for higher-risk buildings. Read each row to follow a stakeholder across the project; read each column to see who must do what at a given stage.
Every regulation that shows up on the map, indexed by region and instrument type. Click a row for the substance: what it requires, who it binds, when it bites. UK + EU divergence is now significant — the EU CPR 2024 revision, EPBD recast, and CSRD on one side; the Procurement Act 2023, Building Safety Act 2022, and HRB Gateway regime on the other.
Every compliance burden is also a market: a function someone now must perform, often badly, often manually, often without good tooling. The post-Grenfell UK regime alone created roughly £2bn of recurring work in safety case management, golden thread tooling, and competence assurance. EU CPR 2024 will do the same for product traceability. Below: where the regulations are tightest and the existing players are weakest.