Building Digitisation: A Game-changer for Building Safety
What is driving building digitisation? In this blog we explore how it’s gathering pace in light of regulatory change and a focus on building safety, key provisions and requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022 and how to get on the journey to digitisation.
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New building regulations with requirements for compliant digital information management will be the key drivers for tech buying decisions this year. 2024 is the year when the Building Safety Act (BSA) will come into full force and the mandate for digital building information, safety cases and a golden thread of information will put prioritising information high on the industry agenda.
New buildings completed after 1 October 2023 now must be Gateway 3 compliant (new Building Safety Act decision point) have a relevant completion certificate and be registered before being occupied.
Deadlines have passed to register higher-risk residential buildings (HRRB) with the Building Safety Regulator (BSR). If an asset owner doesn’t have all their building information digitised, they will find it increasingly difficult to account for documentation around Key Building Information. Read on for guidance on how you can prepare for building information requirements.
Today, Createmaster announces that sister company Bond Bryan Digital will be rebranded to Createmaster Information Management under the Createmaster brand. This move brings the two brands together to improve the way building information is specified, delivered and managed across the whole life of an asset.
Key Building Information deadlines are looming. If you own or manage an occupied high-rise residential building or are responsible for a building’s design, construction and completion you’ll need to get ready for new roles and responsibilities. Read on for guidance on how you can prepare for building information requirements.
Today, Createmaster and Zutec, leaders in construction management software solutions across the building lifecycle, have launched their new building safety, maintenance and information-focused paper: Building Safety in the Digital Age — Embracing Technology for Enhanced Building Information.
What is driving building digitisation? In this blog we explore how it’s gathering pace in light of regulatory change and a focus on building safety, key provisions and requirements of the Building Safety Act 2022 and how to get on the journey to digitisation.
Gateway 3 applications are to be introduced in October 2023 as part of the Building Safety Act roadmap. Learn more about Gateway 3, what is required at the application stage, and how best to collate information ready to submit to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and secure a Completion Certificate, all within the context of the Building Safety Act 2022.
Today, Createmaster, a leading digital handover and building manual solutions provider, introduces its ‘Golden Thread: Gateway 3” solution’. Underpinned by the Zutec platform, the solution combines the Createmaster fully managed digital handover service with a dashboard that enables contractors and developers to understand the information required to fulfil obligations set out by the Building Safety Act at the handover stage of an asset.
New Digital Retrofit solution aimed at asset owners and building duty holders, brings together existing siloed and disparate building information from in-use higher-risk buildings (HRBs) into the Zutec platform, providing a user-friendly dashboard to manage documents and data.
The construction industry is adapting rapidly towards a more agile and digitised model that can help navigate market pressures, is more aware of its surroundings and can create more sustainable built environments. Collaboration can mean teams are working together towards one project goal, and everyone can get the information they need when they need it.
At the same time, the PAP has just 28 days from submitting an application for registration to provide Key Building Information. And, that information must be digital.
This marks a big step forward in improving the safety of HRBs further to Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations for a systemic review of building regulations.
Under the Building Safety Act 2022, as of 6th April 2023 to October 2023, Principal Accountable Persons (PAPs) must now both register all legacy building stock and live HRB projects.
At the same time, the PAP has just 28 days from submitting an application for registration to provide Key Building Information. And, that information must be digital.
This marks a big step forward in improving the safety of HRBs further to Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations for a systemic review of building regulations.
New research from leading ConTech solutions providers, Zutec and Createmaster, reveals many UK tenants and leaseholders are living with outstanding maintenance issues in their homes.
From faulty fixtures to unaddressed snagging issues and ongoing defects, the surprisingly high levels of outstanding maintenance issues raised by almost half UK non-freeholders (47%) questioned, indicates many are living in uncomfortable, and potentially unsafe, circumstances.
New research, jointly conducted by leading digital construction solution providers, Zutec and Createmaster, reveals the majority of UK non-freehold tenants do not feel 100% safe within the building in which they live. With increasing awareness around fire safety these findings bring to light that as an industry there still is a lot to do. For instance, four in 10 (43%) residents say they have not seen any fire safety certificates in their building..
Following the tragic events at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, claiming 72 lives, the Government commissioned the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety led by Dame Judith Hackitt.
How many Hard Copies do you need? The answer is none! In 2021, there are much more effective methods of delivery for structured data and O&M requirements.
Createmaster are running a series of free CPD workshops with leading contractors and developers. We share valuable advice accumulated over 18 years’ experience managing project handover documentation.
O&Ms: The Problem With Procuring Late. On a typical construction project, the main contractor has between 30 – 40 subcontractors to procure and manage.
In this first of a series of articles, we will focus on the significance of producing an accurate Asset Register as part of the Operations & Maintenance [O&M] information to be handed over from the main contractor to the end client, as part of the PC handover documentation.
The Health and Safety File [H&S File] is a Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 [CDM15] legislative requirement on all notifiable construction projects involving more than one contractor.
Operation and maintenance manuals [O&Ms] provide all the information required by end users for the operation, maintenance, decommissioning and demolition of a building. O&Ms delivered collectively as part of the Building Manual, are a contractual requirement on HSE notifiable construction projects.
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