Construction design management

Putting safety at the heart of every project

We partner with clients to strengthen health and safety performance across every stage of a project. By embedding strong safety habits and proactive practices, we deliver measurable benefits, reduce incidents, and enhance operational performance. Our approach ensures regulatory compliance while promoting best-practice solutions that protect people, assets, and the wider community.

Expertise that spans every discipline

Our Construction design management (CDM) advisory teams are supported by architects, building surveyors, structural, civil, and mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) engineers, sustainability specialists, and quantity surveyors. This multidisciplinary approach ensures seamless integration of safety and compliance into every aspect of design, procurement, and delivery, optimising project outcomes across the asset’s lifecycle.

Flexible, responsive, and value-driven

We provide agile, proactive CDM support, adapting roles, design strategies, and compliance measures to evolving project needs, regulatory changes, or shifting contexts. By combining technical rigour with practical delivery, our teams safeguard compliance, mitigate risk, and help clients achieve project objectives while creating value, efficiency, and environmental performance.

Sector-specific safety solutions

Our service spans education, residential, healthcare, commercial, and leisure sectors, with tailored CDM strategies aligned to each sector’s regulations and best practices. Safety and compliance are integrated with sustainability objectives, supporting energy efficiency, adaptable design, and responsible material use.

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Supporting confident change across local government

Councils across the country are balancing major transformation programmes alongside the day-to-day responsibility of delivering essential services to residents.

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Public Sector Challenge: Earth, Mynd, and Shire

Norse Group is proud to support the Public Sector Challenge: Earth, Mynd, and Shire 2006 raising funds for Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation.

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LATCos offer flexibility for service integration and disaggregation

Justin Galliford explains how the LATCo model can help councils merge services effectively while providing a practical alternative to disaggregation.

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