We believe sharing knowledge is key to shaping a better world. This is why we are developing an online platform that enables users to seamlessly navigate, query, and review, UK building regulations and guidance documents, ensuring compliance and best-practice across every project.
Key Codes:
Building Regulations: Approved Documents (A-S)
Construction Design Management Regulations
Sector Specific Guidance Notes
Key Functions
A Collated Archive
Our platform consolidates Building Regulations, CDM Regulations, and Guidance Notes, in one location. Allowing users to gather information with increased ease and speed.
Project Search
Enter your project type, location, and key parameters to access regulations and guides relevant to your project, ensuring alignment with the latest standards and best practice.
Multidisciplinary AI
Empower every user to become a multidisciplinary expert with natural language AI. Get accurate and cited responses to complex queries, seamlessly linking all relevant documentation.
Save and Reference
Bookmark and share crucial regulations and guides relevant to your project, facilitating collaboration with others. Integrate key clauses into your reports, emails, and design documentation.
Wiki Reviews
Harness collective expertise. Registered users have the capability to flag and comment on clauses, aiding regulators in executing targeted revisions and enabling continuous improvement.
Tracked Updates
See scheduled updates, past revisions, and stay up-to-date with industry best practices to ensure ongoing compliance throughout your project's life cycle and future-proof your proposals.
Key advantages
For designers, developers, contractors, home owners and inspectors (B2B):
Efficiency and productivity gains
Streamlining access to essential information and enabling collaboration, can improve operational efficiency and productivity for professionals, giving time back to tackle the more creative and bespoke challenges of a project.
Accessible and up-to-date
Keeping up with complex and constantly evolving regulations, codes, and guidelines is a major challenge. An accessible and dynamic platform democratises multidisciplinary knowledge, empowering all users to become up-to-date experts on any given project.
Compliance and risk mitigation
Failure to comply with relevant regulations and standards can result in hefty fines, legal issues, and avoidable harm; both to the buildings occupants and the planet. An intuitive and accessible platform mitigates these risks and helps shape a better world.
For code writers, editors, researchers, and government (G2B):
Reduce the time and cost of rewrites
Code rewrites incur significant expenses and consume valuable time, leading to continually outdated guidance. An interactive platform leverages collective user input to pinpoint crucial rewrites ensuring up-to-date standards and an more agile workflow.
Link guidance to an evidence-base
Building regulations and guidance notes currently lack a robust evidence base. Providing a digital platform enables guidance to be linked to peer-reviewed research, enhancing its credibility and improving quality of the built environment.
Increase reach and implementation
The effectiveness of regulation is contingent on the industry's knowledge of it. The current siloed hosting of guidance limits industry adoption. Creating a network of users allows for alternations, updates, and additions to be quickly disseminated and adopted.
Better Codes, Better Buildings, Better World.
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