Hannah Pinsent, Architect here at Tate+Co, joined a lively construction industry round table to explore the implications of the Building Safety Act and the mandatory Golden Thread approach for providing comprehensive data on projects’ design and construction.

Architects could see a return to their former role as guardians of design quality throughout residential projects as a result of the act and its approach to providing comprehensive data on projects’ design and construction.

This was one of the key findings of netMAGmedia’s third edition of Building Insights LIVE, a series of industry round tables to discuss crucial construction topics. Focusing on the safety agenda post-Grenfell that was enshrined in the Act, ‘Following the Golden Thread to Safety’ brought together leading architects, developers, BIM professionals and product manufacturers to look at best practice on construction information management for safer buildings.

A full summary of the discussion will be published in the coming weeks.

Many thanks to netMAGmedia for organising the event and gathering such an excellent panel. It was great to be part of the debate.

The panel includeed:

Richard Harrison – Association of Consultant Architects

Lucy Craig – Mace Group

Peter Sutcliffe – AECOM

Stephen Hamil – NBS

Ben Wallbank – Trimble EMEA

Chris Lees – Data Clan

Chris Hall External – Siderise

Glyn Hauser – JELD-WEN

Paul French – Saint-Gobain Interior Solutions