Building confidence, visibility

Threadway is a platform to guide you through developement and maintenance of key fire safety requirements and other forms of building compliance.

Gain Confidence in your Buildings

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.

Building and Guiding

Record what you know, and start addressing what you don't.

Track Progress

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.

Receive Alerts

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.

Report to Other Parties

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.

Building Confidence, Piece by Piece

This is not a short game. Particularly for a large portfolio of buildings, fire safey is many small pieces coming together correctly.

Be Guided

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.

Handle Complex and Legacy 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.

Building and Guiding

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.

Missing Provided Unresolved Findings Overridden Provide Basic FRA Ignore Requirement Relying on Human Interpretation Provide Detailed FRA Resolve Signicant Finding Resolve Last Findings FRA Expires Verify with statement CSV, XSLX, etc... Verified Verified Fire Risk Assessment

Checks - How Threadway builds understanding

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:

  • Do we know this thing about our building?
  • If we don’t, how do we get there? What are the steps involved?
✔ Fire Safety Strategy Present ✘ Fire Risk Assessment Current ✔ External Wall Report ✔ Site Plan ✔ Register of Fire Doors ✘ Fire Safety Management Plan

Maintaining a Safety Case

A good CDE can solve not enough information, but:

  • Is this the right information?
  • Do we understand what information we have?
  • Do we have what we need for our Safety Case?

The issue isn’t only lack of data, but also vast piles of data that are not usable or informative.