Digital toolkit launched to help housing associations manage building safety information

The concept of a ‘golden thread’ of building safety data was first put forward by Dame Judith Hackitt in her post-Grenfell Building a Safer Future report. The requirement has since been incorporated into the Building Safety Bill.

Victoria Moffett, head of building and fire safety programmes at the NHF, said: “The BIM4HAs toolkit and community are also completely free enabling housing associations to start the journey together and learn from one another.

“Not only will implementing BIM help housing associations prepare for upcoming changes to the regulatory regime that are likely to require all building owners to record a golden thread of building information, it makes excellent business sense given that it can help housing associations manage buildings more efficiently.”

Jack Ostrofsky, chair of BIM4HAs, head of quality and design at Southern Housing Group and a member of the government’s Building Regulations Advisory Committee, said: “Digitising your asset information isn’t only a regulatory imperative, it also makes commercial sense.

“The experienced professionals who have worked on this toolkit as volunteers have been willing to share their experiences, good and bad, in order to learn best practice. Now they are sharing that expertise with all.”