Threadway is a platform to guide you through developement and maintenance of key fire safety requirements and other forms of building compliance.
The key principle behind Threadway is that buildings exist in all sorts of states from old to new, from well understood to buildings full of unknowns. It is the task of the owners of these buildings to understand how these buildings are designed, why they are designed that way, and what needs to be done to maintain them.
No portfolio of buildings will ever be in the perfect state. What matters is being on top of things and making sure that progress is being made.
Some actions, like ensuring a fire safety strategy is present, only need to occur once. Some, like Fire Risk Assessments or other inspects need to happen regularly. Threadway will alert you when these things are due.
Ensuring that you can be confident in your building or portfolio of buildings is incredibly important. Sometimes, it is also important to communicate that to other parties. This could include a regulator, but could also inclue prospective buyers or tenants wishing to do their due dillegence and ensure the building is in good condition.
This is not a short game. Particularly for a large portfolio of buildings, fire safey is many small pieces coming together correctly.
But how do I do that? Underpinning Threadway is the idea that it should be very easy to understand what needs to happen next, no matter the state of any building.
Not all buildings (nor their documents) fit a simple pattern. Threadway is designed from its core to be able to handle builindgs of any type and address issues in any number of ways.
There is no strict rule that must be applied to every building. A system that doesn’t work for even a handful of buildings cannot be universally applied.
Threadway works for every building, even those that are messy and awkward. In all cases, a requirement can be overridden with an explanation and a timescale to review.
Most of the time there are multiple ways to resolve a check.
Threadway never features a mysterious checkbox. Everything is a guided workflow.
There is no perfect schema, database, or BIM that will provide everything you need. We don’t take that approach.
At every point in time, we apply a series of checks. These checks are adaptable questions that can be applied to any property.
These checks help with two things:
A good CDE can solve not enough information, but:
The issue isn’t only lack of data, but also vast piles of data that are not usable or informative.