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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.

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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

FRAs and Ongoing Tasks

Within this system of checks there is also the capability to manage ongoing issues, not just static information.

Checks understand that information can degrade over time. An FRA from 10 years ago does provide the same level of certainty in fire safety compared to one completed 6 months ago.

Checks can also break down on issue (such as an FRA or other inspection) down into smaller issues or significant findings.

The core principle of Threadway, that we work with what we have, also applies here. If that’s a bunch of scanned PDFs, we can track those.

If FRAs are provided in a more advanced format (such as a spreadsheet) we can break this down and track individual significant findings.

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.

Threadway’s Approach to Building Confidence

  1. Start where we are.
  2. Handle what we have.
  3. Grow and improve confidence.
  4. Apply across the portfolio.
  5. Integrate and share.

The state of fire safety information is very imperfect and ever-changing. Threadway’s approach is to embrace that imperfection and progressively work to improve it.

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