nima welcomes the August 2024 publication by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) of its guidance for dutyholders and accountable persons on delivering the ‘golden thread’.
Meanwhile the ongoing CLC work led by nima to refresh the ‘Information Management Mandate’ complements the guidance’s objective, by addressing the need for strong data and information foundations.
The importance of better information management in respect of the design, construction, occupation and operation of higher-risk buildings has long been recognised.
nima welcomed Dame Judith Hackitt’s original 2018 recommendation regarding the creation and maintenance of a golden thread of information across the whole life of higher-risk buildings. She later delivered the keynote at nima’s first virtual conference in November 2023, with the themes of building safety and whole life use of information re-visited at the April 2024 virtual conference.
The CLC working group that drafted this guidance included several people actively engaged in nima, including Dan Rossiter and Varun Soni. Their work is complemented by ongoing CLC activity to refresh the ‘Information Management Mandate’ - to broaden its reach and its relevance across the whole life of the built and managed environment, and to make it accessible to and achievable by a much wider audience.
The IMM task group is led by nima chair Dr Anne Kemp and includes two nima vice-chairs (Emma Hooper and Simon Lewis). The IMM task group is aiming to share its draft approach for consultation in autumn 2024, prior to launching the revised approach at nima’s November 2024 virtual conference.
The CLC’s golden thread guidance underlines the importance of effective management and storage of golden thread information. It calls for information that is accessible, accountable, accurate, electronic, secure, transferable, understandable and up to date.
This is strongly aligned with nima’s view that current and future use and exploitation of information about assets in the built and managed environment needs to be underpinned by high quality data and information (for example, read the nima draft Quality data and artificial intelligence position paper).
