로그인Revolutionising the Digital Golden Thread for Building Safety
The Digital Golden Thread, born from the Grenfell Tower tragedy, represents a transformative approach to building safety and management by maintaining a comprehensive digital record throughout a building's lifecycle. As regulations tighten and the industry embraces digital transformation, Matterport is emerging as the visual cornerstone of this solution, providing accurate 3D digital twins that serve as the foundation for documenting, managing, and maintaining critical building information. By bridging the gap between physical spaces and digital documentation, Matterport is helping organizations not only comply with new safety standards but also revolutionize how building information is captured, stored, and accessed across the entire property sector.
What is the Digital Golden Thread?
The Digital Golden Thread is a complete, up-to-date digital record of all information required for the safety of construction projects and building operations. It includes details on design, construction, refurbishments, and ongoing maintenance. This concept, mandated by the UK's Building Safety Act 2022, aims to enhance accountability, transparency, and safety in the built environment.
Matterport's role in the Digital Golden Thread of Information
Matterport's 3D capture technology and digital twin platform are ideally suited to support the Digital Golden Thread initiative. By becoming the “visual reference point” for live company assets, inspections, and documentation. Here's how:
Comprehensive Digital Documentation and Information Management: Our technology creates highly accurate 3D models of buildings, providing a visual record that can be easily updated throughout the building's lifecycle.
Smart Building Integrations: Matterport's open API and SDK enable seamless integration with existing building management platforms, allowing our digital twins to serve as a visual interface that connects with asset management systems, maintenance software, inspection tools, and safety platforms - creating a unified, accessible hub for all building information throughout its lifecycle.
Exports of Critical Information: Matterport's platform allows for the seamless exports of various data types, including BIM files, floor plans, measurements, and annotations, creating a single source of truth for all building information.
Real-Time Updates: As buildings evolve, Matterport makes it easy to capture changes and keep the digital record of building data current, ensuring compliance with the Golden Thread requirements.
Enhanced Collaboration: Our cloud-based platform facilitates collaboration among accountable persons and stakeholders, from architects and engineers to facility managers and safety inspectors.
Case Studies: Implementing the Digital Golden Thread with Matterport
At Global Technical Services, we use high-density point cloud scans (e57) to carry out detailed technical analysis of buildings. The accuracy of these scans allows us to measure features with precision and produce 2D plans, enabling us to work closely with clients to establish fire compartmentation and detailed fire strategies. Using a single reference point streamlines collaboration across teams, particularly when tackling complex ideas and challenges. We’re also actively exploring the potential of point cloud data, including the creation of dimensionally accurate digital models of real-world buildings. These models enable advanced digital analysis, offering significant opportunities to enhance project outcomes.
With clear applications in BIM, CFD modelling, and custom manufacturing, this technology is helping us redefine what’s possible in building safety and design."
-Keith Plowman, Fire Safety Consultant, Global HSE Group
Insituu's 3D asset management system takes the core features of Matterport, such as high-fidelity 3D scans and immersive visualization, to the next level by focusing on asset organisation, collaboration, and scalability.
Here’s how it extends Matterport’s capabilities:
Enhanced Asset Organisation While Matterport excels in creating and visualising 3D spaces, Insituu adds a robust layer of organisation by enabling users to tag, catalog, and manage assets within those spaces. This functionality helps in tracking individual objects and their metadata, making it ideal for industries requiring detailed asset documentation.
Operations & Maintenance Manuals Insituu streamlines the creation of operations and management manuals by integrating detailed asset data directly into its platform. Users can annotate and link specific assets within the digital 3D model to relevant documentation, maintenance schedules, or procedural guides. This centralised approach ensures that all information is accurate, up-to-date, and visually contextualized within the 3D environment, making it easier to generate comprehensive, customised manuals tailored to the specific needs of a facility or project.
Golden Thread of Information Insituu’s focus on maintaining the "golden thread" ensures that every change to a 3D model or associated asset is tracked, updated, and easily retrievable, providing a continuous and reliable information flow throughout the asset's lifecycle.
By combining Matterport’s immersive spatial data with Insituu’s advanced asset management features, organizations gain a comprehensive solution for managing both the visual and operational aspects of their 3D environments.
Insituu’s 3D asset management system has revolutionised how we maintain the golden thread of information. It provides seamless traceability and ensures every detail stays connected across the asset lifecycle."
– [Global Gaming Company]
The Future of Building Safety
As the UK leads the way in implementing the Digital Golden Thread, it's clear that this approach will become a global standard that informs the culture of building safety and management. Matterport is committed to continually innovating and adapting our technology to meet the evolving needs of the construction industry. By embracing Matterport's solutions, building owners, managers, and safety professionals can not only comply with new building regulations but also enhance overall building safety, improve operational efficiency and decision making, while providing peace of mind to residents. The Digital Golden Thread is more than just a regulatory requirement - it's a paradigm shift in how we approach building safety and management. With Matterport, you're not just meeting standards; you're setting them.
