Are you happy with your BIM strategy? Are you satisfied with your supply chain’s approach to information management? Are your clients driving BIM processes?

How do you get senior stakeholders to buy into the processes required to comply with the golden thread? That was one of the questions asked by public sector staff at the second Connected Local Authorities group event.

Data standards experts Chris Lees and Nick Nisbet have developed a new data protocol to help improve the management of risks in the design, construction and management of new homes in scope of the Building Safety Act – and buildings more widely.

Duncan Reed explores how maintaining a digital, structural golden thread can be hugely valuable as the industry moves into a more sustainable age.

Setting up systems to form a golden thread of information about their assets is powering housing providers to think differently about information and the way they interact with customers.

Johnny Furlong offers an update on the golden thread and provides a warning about those claiming to offer ‘approved’ solutions to help with safety regulations.

Kirsty Villiers reviews progress towards the golden thread.

There is no need to mandate how the golden thread should be implemented, the Industry Safety Steering Group (ISSG), chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt, has declared.

The golden thread, the state of BIM, 4D, and battling back from covid-19: these were the topics that were front of mind in the past year, judging by the top 10 stories on BIMplus in 2021.

Eoin Leonard, the CEO and founder at i3PT Certification, explains how compliance learnings from Ireland can help UK construction companies prepare for the Building Safety Bill.

The list of authors of the Golden Thread is now in the public domain. Who’s on it?

While Building Safety Bill had its second reading in Parliament, the government issued further detail on the Golden Thread.