Zutec delivers digital solution that puts residential building firms on the path to golden thread compliance

Golden thread dashboard puts all building information and processes in one place to manage document collation, actions, approvals, gateways and compliance  

London, 7th March 2023: Today, Zutec, the leading common data environment (CDE) for developers, clients and asset owners in the residential sector, announces the availability of its new Golden Thread Dashboard. 

Designed to capture building information across the asset lifecycle, from design to digital handover and maintenance, the Zutec solution provides one place to store, register and manage information while helping firms meet regulatory compliance. Leveraging Zutec’s decades of experience, it has been specifically developed to support the construction and building maintenance industries prepare for the imminent arrival of the final provisions of the Building Safety Act (BSA) 2022 later this year. 

Jeslin Joy, Head of Solutions Engineering at Zutec, says: “With the UK Government’s new building regulations putting an emphasis on digitising data, the golden thread of information will become a fundamental requirement for ensuring building safety and accountability. It is therefore more important than ever to have a robust client tool to manage information from design to build and beyond and prepare for this early. Taking the pain out of document management process, our dashboard offers a comprehensive, consolidated and integrated perspective to building information for users, which is aimed at facilitating and achieving golden thread compliance for clients.” 

Providing a unified, top-level view of data, the Zutec Golden Thread Dashboard enables users to drill down and define, track and quality check all necessary documents required for compliance with the gateways set out in the BSA, as well as other building regulations.  Users can track actions, outstanding deliverables, snags, and remedial works against trade/work packages, so nothing falls through the cracks when it comes to the construction, operations and maintenance documents for a building. 

Managing RFI’s, responses and changes to a build can be done within the tool, with details recorded for effective management of safety measures and auditing. Certificates due for renewal can also be monitored and updated. With search and sharing functionality, all stakeholders get transparency which helps firms meet regulatory requirements in the operations phase too.   

The user experience is simple, the journey quick and the view is action oriented. This takes away the complexity normally seen in a CDE platform, so end users can focus on what matters most — ensuring the safety of tenants and proving their compliance with a full audit trail should it be needed. Adminstrators can also take advantage of the rich function offered by the Zutec platform, without it affecting the day-to-day user’s efficiency. 

Joy continued: “We are seeing asset owners and developers keen to firm up on their information management strategies, as the industry moves closer to achieving a golden thread of building information. Client CDEs play a vital role in this longer term, therefore we have built our dashboard in the Zutec CDE to minimise risk, enhance collaboration and streamline the transition of information from construction into the operations phase. By adopting our approach, you own your data so you can ensure critical information is always up-to-date and easily accessible. This instills confidence in building safety for operations teams, as well as occupants who see safety managed as a top priority.” 

With a specialism in digital handover from sister company Createmaster, getting started with the Zutec Golden Thread Dashbaord has never been easier. As a fully managed service, documents are reviewed and uploaded by a team of experts that professionally collate and deliver handover packs for a seamless transition to operational departments. This gives firms a digital representation of an asset that can be used by building owners, facilities managers and other stakeholders to make informed decisions. 

For clients, asset owners and developers looking to take the next step towards Golden Thread, Zutec is offering a proof-of-concept package so firms can try the solution on a project or asset before investing across a portfolio.  

To find out more, or to organise a demo, click here. 

About Zutec: 

Part of the BuildData Group AB (“BuildData”), Zutec is a provider of cloud-based construction management software with more than two decades of experience in transforming built environments across the globe. As a common data environment, the platform provides solutions for quality management, tender management, project management, documentation management, asset information, design collaboration, digital handover and field-based tools across the construction project lifecycle, primarily for residential market including housebuilders, developers, asset and property owners and contractors. 

Customers include Taylor Wimpey, Multiplex, Wates, Sir Robert McAlpine and Aecom, and its tools have been used in the construction of iconic buildings such as The Shard (London), Wembley Stadium (London), Midfield Terminal Abu Dhabi International Airport (Abu Dhabi) and Parramatta Square Precinct (Sydney). 

BuildData operates a suite of companies including Createmaster and Bond Bryan Digital, which help customers derive meaningful value from data throughout the entire building lifecycle.