Canary Wharf New Build Achieves BSR Approval — A Landmark Result Driven by Our End-to-End Leadership.
We’re proud to announce that the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has officially approved the application for a New Build in Canary Wharf — a milestone that not only reflects the strength of the project, but also the depth of expertise and leadership we brought to every stage of the journey.
This approval is more than a regulatory success. It represents a fully coordinated, multi-disciplinary, and strategically guided effort from the earliest design stages through to final submission, all completed in an extraordinary six months, a pace rarely achieved under the new building safety regime.
Leading From Day One: Guiding the Design Process
Our involvement began long before documentation was assembled or compliance gaps were discussed. From the very early days of the project, we provided strategic oversight and technical direction to ensure the design team understood and aligned with the evolving requirements of the Building Safety Act.
We worked directly with architects, fire engineers, MEP engineers, façade specialists, and project managers to build a design that was not only compliant, but robust, coordinated, and evidence-ready.
Our approach ensured that every discipline moved with clarity and consistency — preventing issues before they emerged and enabling the project to build momentum from day one.
Injecting Expertise Into Every Technical Discipline
To meet the expectations of the BSR, we embedded our expertise across all key areas of the design. This included:
Architectural Compliance: ensuring layouts, materials, and life-safety provisions aligned with regulatory expectations and were supported by clear evidence.
Fire Strategy & Life Safety: strengthening the fire engineering strategy, validating assumptions, and ensuring documentation could withstand BSR scrutiny.
MEP Systems: supporting the design of critical mechanical and electrical systems that underpin building safety and resilience.
Façade & Passive Safety Elements: ensuring façade details, materials, and fire performance criteria met the rigorous standards of the new regime.
Structural Engineering (Including Third-Party Check): One of the defining strengths of our involvement was the introduction of a formal role of third-party structural engineering checker, a move that significantly strengthened the technical assurance of the project. This independent review not only identified enhancements to the structural narrative, but provided a layer of robustness that ultimately proved vital in gaining regulator confidence.
By embedding expertise into every discipline, we ensured the application was not merely compliant, it was cohesive, defensible, and technically rigorous.
Full End-to-End Management of the BSR Application
Throughout the process, we provided complete management of the BSR application, acting as the central driver in close collaboration with the principal designer that brought all disciplines together and maintained absolute alignment with the Regulator’s expectations.
Our leadership spanned:
Coordinating all design disciplines
Validating and assembling every required document
Managing evidence, narratives, and technical justification
Building a structured, regulator-ready submission
Advising on decisions, risks, and required interventions
Responding to questions and steering the project through the process
This level of coordinated management is what enabled project to progress smoothly and confidently through the BSR journey.
A Remarkable Achievement: Approval Secured in Just Six Months
In the current regulatory environment, BSR approvals can often take 12 months or more, particularly for complex or multi-disciplinary developments.
To have delivered end-to-end design coordination, technical assurance, documentation assembly, third-party structural review, and a full regulator submission — all within six months — is an outstanding achievement and a testament to the effectiveness of our process.
It demonstrates what can be accomplished when technical excellence, structured leadership, and a genuinely collaborative approach come together with absolute focus.
A New Benchmark for Building Safety Excellence
This approval stands as a strong example of what the industry can achieve with the right guidance, expertise, and discipline behind it.
As the BSR process becomes the new norm for UK development, we remain committed to helping organisations navigate it with confidence — delivering design assurance, technical certainty, and regulator-ready submissions that stand up to the highest scrutiny.
This application is now officially BSR approved — and we’re incredibly proud to have led the journey from the earliest concept discussions to the final green light.
A safer, smarter, more compliant future starts here.
