Pick Everard high-risk building hire: Gateway 2 lessons for project teams
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on The Construction Index
30 Second Briefing
Pick Everard has expanded its 11-strong Building Safety Act team by appointing APS-registered Principal Designer Building Regulations (PDBR) Aditya Sardesai, who has led a 21-storey higher-risk building through Gateway 2 to Building Safety Regulator approval. A chartered CIOB member with site-based experience across UK hotel, leisure, residential, care and commercial schemes, Sardesai brings detailed knowledge of HRB building control processes and buildability constraints. He will lead compliance on several flagship new-build and remediation contracts, signalling tighter focus on Gateway 2 evidence, sequencing and cost/programme impacts for tall buildings.
Technical Brief
- Cross-disciplinary training in architecture and construction project management supports integrated design–construction risk reviews for HRBs.
Our Take
Pick Everard’s recent work on fire safety remediation for nine Salford tower blocks and other remediation schemes in Doncaster suggests the firm is pivoting from one-off compliance tasks towards a sustained Building Safety Act advisory and delivery role for higher‑risk buildings over 18–21 storeys.
Across our 916 Infrastructure stories, relatively few pieces combine ‘Safety’ and ‘Contract Award’ tags without a specific asset named, which signals that Pick Everard is positioning its 11‑person Building Safety Act team as a framework-style resource rather than being tied to a single flagship project.
The firm’s parallel appointments on university sustainability frameworks and active travel projects (e.g. Waterside Bridge in Nottingham) indicate that its higher‑risk building capability will likely be integrated with broader ESG and whole‑estate risk strategies, rather than treated as a narrow fire‑safety niche.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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