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 What are we going to do?

To ensure that duty holders identify, understand, manage, and mitigate building safety risks throughout the building’s life cycle, those responsible for building safety must now retain a ‘golden thread of information.’

The purpose of the golden thread is to have the right information to understand the building and the steps needed to keep both the building and the people living in it safe.

It will hold the information that those responsible for the building require, to: 

  • show that the completed building and any later building work meets the requirements of applicable building regulations
  • identify, understand, manage, and mitigate building safety risks, to prevent or reduce the severity of the consequences of fire spread or structural collapse throughout a building’s life cycle

When does the golden thread start?

The golden thread needs to be created before building work starts and the information must be kept updated throughout the design and construction process (for example where – through the change control process – the plans for the building work are changed).

When the building work is completed, the golden thread must be handed over to the Accountable Person(s), who is responsible for the occupied building.

Crucially, by maintaining an accurate and up-to-date source for all building information you will ensure that building owners can better manage their buildings and optimise safety.

So, remember your building’s information must be:

 

  • kept digitally
  • kept securely
  • a building’s single source of truth
  • available to people who need the information to do a job
  • available when the person needs the information
  • presented in a way that can be easily used  

Essentially, the golden thread is all about the right people having the right information when they need it. 

 

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