Description
Key Learnings
- Discover the benefits of digitizing workflows to enhance fire safety and overall health and safety protocols in construction.
- Discover the role that digital transformation plays in aligning with safety legislation and establishing industry best practices.
- Discover the key principles and implications of the UK's Building Safety Act, and how it impacts the global landscape.
- Grasp the importance of developing a future-ready construction workforce and the strategies to equip teams with new skills.
Speakers
- KPKristina PoluyanovaKristina embarked on her career with Autodesk six years ago as a Construction Customer Success Manager for BIM 360 in Barcelona, Spain. 3 years later she relocated to London, UK, where she continued expanding Autodesk Construction Cloud reach across the UK, Ireland and the Middle East helping main contractors and owners adopt construction technology on their projects. In the past 2,5 years, Kristina has utilized her construction expertise as Senior Product Marketing Manager for EMEA, steering the go-to-market strategy for Autodesk Construction Solutions in the region, which includes overseeing market trends, industry regulations, competitive landscape & defining product-market fit in each region.
KRISTINA POLUYANOVA: Hello. And welcome everyone to today's class on Global Footprint for Improved Safety Following the UK Building Safety Act. Before we begin, just a safe Harbor Statement in here to ensure you don't make any decisions, financial decisions based on the forward looking statements that we may share within the scope of this presentation.
Today, you're going to hear from the three of us. My name is Christina Poluyanova. I'm working as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for the EMEA region, looking after the go-to market strategy for our construction solutions.
We also have Chris Palmer on the call today. Chris is our Senior Technical Solution Executive for the EMEA region, who is helping customers like yourselves be successful with the initial discovery deployment of construction solutions. And then we have Lee Ramsey on the customer side, Digital Director at Morgan Sindall who will be sharing Morgan Sindall journey with you today. All of us are based out of the UK.
So let's begin. But before we take this presentation further, let's understand what has driven the need for change. Before we speak about the impact of the Building Safety Act in the UK and initiatives planned, let's understand what has driven the actual need for change or what has prompted this need. Let's zoom out of the UK for a moment and travel to other parts of the world. And let's look at a few years back to see what happened in the US, actually.
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- We're just about a week away from the somber, second anniversary of the Surfside collapse.
- 98 people were killed when the Champlain Towers South came crumbling down in the middle of the night. Well now, federal investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the tragedy. And they're sharing the findings of their preliminary report. CBS News Miami's Ivan Taylor joins us live with the details. Ivan, what have you learned?
- Severe strength deficiency on the pool deck. Yes, Jim and Lauren, we've heard it before. But now, federal investigators are saying it loudly on this 24 page report.
- When they find potential evidence that could be helpful for us--
- A new face for the investigation as in why Champlain Towers South collapsed has the National Institute of Standards and Technology pointing as a possible cause of the tragedy, the pool deck.
- As you can see on the left-hand side of the slide, a structural model of the pool deck slab.
- Federal investigators show slides illustrating what they consider areas that fail to meet both, building codes and its original parameters.
- It's certainly one of the things that we've been looking at as a potential cause.
- Allyn Kilsheimer is an independent investigator who was at the site of the collapse hours after it occurred on June 2021. He tells us he was hired by the town of Surfside and has nothing to do with the federal investigation.
- And the question would be, is it a column that supported the pool deck? Or is it the pool deck itself? Those are two different things.
- The report says the investigators also looked into corrosion in parts of the deck steel.
- Including flexural and axial behavior of concrete, concrete cracking, yielding of reinforcement.
- The federal agency has been investigating through debris and columns transported to warehouses in South Florida. Mr Kilsheimer says another possibility has to do with the way the Champlain towers were built, which was--
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KRISTINA POLUYANOVA: So there are about 20 official versions that are still under investigation following this tragedy. And they have to do with the way the designs were performed. And then, there is another version, saying that contractors didn't build from the same way that their designs were intended to be. So the investigation has been going on since 2021 with no single conclusion to define the reason of this tragic accident that has taken away 98 lives.
And unfortunately, residential accidents are not new to the construction industry. And they continue to happen pretty much all over the world. Some of these may sound familiar to you. What has driven the need for change in the UK was another tragic incident, which involved the deaths of 72 people and affected countless lives.
Here, fire, accelerated by the aluminum cladding, which had been passed by use by building control, however, in reality, did not meet combustibility requirements of the UK building regulations. This incident takes the problem to a deeper level, because there were also issues identified throughout the product supply chain. And what turned out was that there was falsification of combustibility tests and labeling for the cladding system, highlighted the lack of quality assurance and accountability from supplier chain, all the way through the building control sign-off.
This whole incident and investigation resulted a report, Building a Safer Future, that was published in May 2018 and set out the guidelines that were then to become the Building Safety Act. So what is the Building Safety Act all about?
It's an act to make provision about the safety of people in or about buildings and the standard of buildings. The term "safety" in the name of the act can actually mislead some people. However, there is a clear difference here between building safely as in safe methods of construction. And what the building Safety Act is looking to achieve is centered around occupational building safety. So where and to which projects does the Building Safety Act actually apply?
The new regime applies to the two buildings that are at least 18m in height or have at least seven stories and have at least two residential units. It also applies to care homes and to hospitals, who are all meeting the same height criteria. It initially did apply only to the new projects. However, existing buildings will be retrospectively called in to demonstrate compliance over the transitional period.
The act is about improving the building standards and quality control in construction projects within the UK, generating better information about how a building should be built, tracking and recording that information, and ensuring what is constructed actually matches what has been designed. And all of this is coupled with a greater focus on the types of materials and products that go in the build and the certification and approval process around them. Also, there are more stringent building regulations enforced by the New building safety regulator with the aim of improving building safety and of course, better access for residents to information about the building that they occupy.
So let's now see who is impacted by this legislation. Well, pretty much everyone in the industry is impacted by building quality, from the owner to the GC, to supply chain, to manufacturers, and of course, to building residents. So at a high level, let's look at how general contractors and owners are impacted by this legislation, which I'm sure we'll see most of you here, joining us today as well.
So for main contractors, accountability for quality is pushed back from the government onto the industry, meaning that from the UK government perspective, never again can they be in a position where they can potentially be blamed for the failure in the building control. And then, there is also a stronger change process, control process, with more robust record keeping. Then there is also a focus on demonstrating through evidence that the work you perform is compliant with current regulations. And the burden of proof is actually on the main contractor, including photo proof, photo records, and so on and so forth.
As for the owners, they must be in a position where they have established the necessary information management system to facilitate successful completion and to accept the digital record. And they must sign at completion, that the building is safe to occupy. So why are we looking, and why are we talking about this now? In terms of a timeline, this is a rough timeline that helps us to understand the reality and where we currently sit and how this legislation is evolving and coming into force. And the most recent milestone that has been the closest to us was on October 1st, where the gateways 2 and 3 of the Building Safety Act would come into full force, and developers must then apply to the building safety regulator for building control approval before they actually commence work on any new high rise building.
And with this, I will hand it over to Lee Ramsey from Morgan Sindall, who will share their own journey and view and the experience related to the Building Safety Act. Lee, now the floor is yours. Over to you.
LEE RAMSEY: Thank you very much. So in England, the Building Safety Act in the Secondary Legislation is the biggest change to the industry in the last 40 years. There are serious implications if the legislation is not followed. There are imprisonment and penalties, unlimited fines for numerous breaches of the law. The legislation has taken since 2017 to be developed in various draft versions, in consultations, and papers are being issued by government, prior to the secondary legislation recently being passed in August of this year. However, one thing is being clear over the recent years-- the industry would need to change prior to the passing of the legislation and act proactively.
Over the recent years, the author of the Grenfell Report and Chair of the Regulator, Dame Judith Hackett has been very outspoken in relation to her industry findings in past behaviors of the industry. It is clear now, that you can't wait for others to do the right thing. You need to act responsibly, regardless of others.
There's a regime of penalties if the defined duty holders do not act responsibly. And it's down for the industry to demonstrate compliance. It's not for the regulator to tell you what to do and how to do it. The regulator will ask you to demonstrate what is reasonable and practical.
Again, Dame Judith Hackitt has been clear. It will not be a rap across the knuckles when you get it wrong any more. The changes are huge and far reaching. And I don't believe all parties have fully, fully appreciated the impact across the broader industry.
A core aspect of the change is around culture and behavior. The industry needs to be proactive. And the blame game to others will not be acceptable. The industry needs to work together in a positive and a collaborative manner for the benefit of the residents. Previous statements like, its good enough, will not pass the test set by the regulators. Parties will need to prove and demonstrate buildings are safe.
Competency is a key element of the building safety and compliance change. Within setting the bar report, 11 roles have been identified where the required skills, knowledge, experience, and behavior will need to be established. Standards have already been issued for the principal designer, otherwise known as general designer, and principal contractor, otherwise known as general contractor, for further more responsibilities.
Furthermore, it's the responsibility of the client to assess the competency of these parties before starting the work. The client will need to play an active role in the development. The client must make suitable arrangements for the planning, managing, and monitoring the project, so to ensure that the compliance with all relevant requirements are achieved. This is a big change for some clients, who often pass on the responsibility to others.
In summary, what does this mean in real terms, we're talking about quality-- quality of information, quality of design, quality build, and quality of handover. By achieving the high standards, I believe industry will save time, money, and lives.
For many years, people have thought about quality just relating to the construction works. However, it's more than that. It's not just a standalone element. To achieve the highest quality, there needs to be a behavioral and cultural change in industry. We all need to encourage this change and support one another on this journey.
CHRIS PALMER: OK. Thank you, Lee. And so now moving on, we'll have a look at Autodesk's response to these challenges and the combinations of technology we can use to enable our customers to meet some of these requirements.
At Autodesk, we've undertaken quite a deep dive into some of the primary and secondary legislation of the Building Safety Act and BSA 644 and had many conversations with various customers. And as a response to this we've tried to map out the key themes and challenges that need to be addressed by project teams to generate and maintain the golden thread of information on projects and to generate a comprehensive digital handover at completion.
The result of this is this visual wheel, which you can see, which when working in a clockwise direction, starts to demonstrate the different areas project teams will encounter when formulating a methodology for a digital information management strategy, which spans the life cycle of a project.
We then looked at mapping these requirements to these new building safety gateways and rolling them up into some of the following key themes, where we feel we can assist our customers-- firstly, a common data environment-- so providing that centralized digital repository and digital audit trail for decisions made during the design and construction phase.
Fire design development-- so providing tools to collaboratively produce these plans required under the new regulations, including some of the parametric data required under the regulations, and connecting that data directly to authoring tools with apps and plugins to enhance the process.
Then change management during design-- so provide a mechanism to support, record, and report on design changes during design development and building safety regulator approval. Fire information delivery tracking-- so ensuring that all of that information that needs to be delivered and those requirements are met, including tracking and reporting on the progress.
Building product information-- so workflows to collate this, to approve and record all the building product information and certification within a project. Construction evidence-- so the ability to, first of all, plan out the inspection and evidence in process needed during the construction phase and the tools required to execute that process, including mobile tools and connections to reality capture solutions.
Change management during the construction phase-- so mechanisms to, again, support, record, and report design changes and product changes during the construction phase. And then finally, digital handover-- so how we can support the creation of digital handover documentation centrally from our CDE or via API connections to aid with registration of buildings with the building safety regulator.
So here, you'll see an overarching framework of the individual products within the Autodesk Construction Cloud Unified Platform. Now, the platform is vast. And as we've seen here at AU, it's growing at a rapid pace. Now, in my role as a technical solutions executive, I deal quite extensively with mapping customer workflows and needs and look at how both our own and partner technology can combine to provide tangible workflows that enable customers to achieve very specific results.
And every customer and project is different. And so then when we're looking at specific workflows needed to achieve compliance with the Building Safety Act, we can have a good walk map of what we think will be required on a typical project.
So now, let's take a look at those themes again and for the digital information management. And firstly, we can begin to map those against those modules that we have within the Autodesk Construction Cloud, and then drill down one step further into those specific workflows, functions, and features which will be needed by the project teams at each step of the lifecycle to generate that golden thread of information.
Whether this is in the early project stages with authoring tools, design integrations, and design sharing, version control, change analysis, review, markup, comment and approval processes, or then within the construction phase for things like asset-based commissioning, workflows with digital assurance, digital quality assurance workflows, all the way to producing that digital handover, we can achieve all of this in one platform within the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
With our extensive partner network, we can then connect into valuable technology stacks that actually help us to achieve these goals. Now, in terms of the Building Safety Act compliance, I think this is going to be particularly true for design development stage, during construction evidence, and also during the handover process.
Specifically in terms of third party tools to help generate the required level of detail and models and plans, reality capture solutions to aid with the increased burden of proof on contractors and connections into other client systems to transfer host and maintain the golden thread of information upon completion.
So the real value of the Autodesk breadth of partner network is that we are not trying to specifically assign a solution in order for you to work with us. If you already have an established solution for reality capture, for example, that's great. We can connect to that. We can start to share data and work together.
Now, the industry's talked and theorized at length over the last few years about what exactly what should be included in the legal definition of the golden thread of information. But on the 17th of August 2023, the government published new secondary legislation with greater depth and actually to underpin some of the technical and practical aspects of how the industry would achieve compliance with the Building Safety Act.
Now, importantly, in part 4, section 31 of the Building Higher-Risk Building Procedures England Regulations 2023 actually spells out in law, in practical requirements-- so key practical requirements which a client must ensure is in place in order for their project to create and maintain the golden thread of information. So legal requirements from the UK government.
And this states that the golden thread should first of all be in electronic format, transferable without loss, accessible by client designer and contractor. It must be secure. It must be changeable only in accordance with procedure. It must record all change, including the person and the date, and also should use consistent terminology and definitions.
So in the first instance, Autodesk Construction Cloud is ideally placed to serve this purpose, providing an electronic, secure, and collaborative environment to begin collating and recording project information and decisions. And if we look at Autodesk Docs platform, we're really aiming to remove barriers to collaboration by providing file view and support for a huge range of 3D and 2D file types, Microsoft 365 files, and direct support for things like point clouds.
In real terms, what we're seeing is that when it comes to tracking the approvals and decisions made on a project and generating that golden thread of information, it doesn't really matter whether it's a 2D PDF, or a 365 document, or an IFC file. All project members can view, comment, and approve and view project information. And we're also able to apply naming standards and conventions, such as the ISO 9650 naming standard, to ensure that project documentation does use that consistent terminology and definitions.
Now, the British standard, BS 86444, which offers a new fire information management framework or fire array, which is intended to be both for new and existing assets, and also offers a comprehensive list of information which needs to be generated and exchanged over different stages of an asset's life cycle.
So where this is used in BIM processes on a project, the standard actually also provides a detailed list of fire safety properties which can be included as parametric data within models to help generate the required data. Now, the Autodesk Construction Cloud is, first of all, ideally placed to manage this project information and those metadata requirements through something like our parameter service.
So managed account or organizational level-- these parameters can be made. Organizations can maintain a standardized database of parametric values, which can then be assigned to the supply chains and project teams for inclusion within their design submissions.
So putting it simply, the parameter service is really putting clients and owners in control of the information they receive from subconsultants. And it makes it easy for those teams to access those requirements through direct connections to the Autodesk Construction Cloud.
So when it comes to creating a digital audit trail, the review and approvals functionality is the key workflow engine within Auditor docks to track and record decisions made during a project and enabling that retrospective analysis of how a design and project information progressed through various states within a project.
The engine allows us to create formalized, multiple step, and group approval workflows which can then be used to update document approval statuses and metadata, as well as what we'll call commentary issues, markups and burn some important information to those construction documents to ensure it's retained and easily visible by project teams.
In terms of change management as the design develops, the recording of this change is a fundamental requirement of good information management process. Therefore, one of the most important functions of Autodesk Docs is the ability to track document versions. Autodesk Docs enables version control on all files stored within the platform with the ability to download previous versions or roll back to make previous versions current.
Critically, every action around a particular file is recorded, with the file activity history, so we can see exactly who's viewed, edited, or reviewed a document or revised the document And When . Version comparison tools are also available for 2D and 3D information to quickly visualize the change that's occurred between versions of project information as it's developed.
So with reference to the cladding on Grenfell Tower and the quality and safety of a building-- and the quality and safety of a building can only be as good as the materials which are used to build it. Obviously, this tragic incident highlighted serious flaws in the way building products are tested and certified in the UK, which will be overhauled by the introduction of some of the new primary and secondary legislation.
Now, building specifications can include huge quantities of very specific product specifications, many of which require their own specific certifications. And it can often be substituted in-flight, during a project due to potential sourcing problems or even cost issues.
So however, I mean, the UK construction industry has never been particularly good at tracking and documenting the exact materials which finally end up in a building and the decisions which were made by the project teams which resulted in them being there.
Now, the Building Safety Act is looking to change that. And this is where we can really start to learn lessons from our cousins across the Atlantic, where technical submittal workflows have been a mainstay of projects for many years. Using the submittals engine within Autodesk Build, project teams can create detailed lists of product data, test information, certifications, installation requirements, samples as built, all those things that are required on a project.
And these can be assigned to specific parties who are made accountable for them. And the collation of this information can be tracked and monitored. Approved submittal information can then also be made available to the site teams to aid with any installation problems, quality control issues, and sign-off queries.
Now, just to emphasize what we're talking about here, so we're now talking about the building safety regulator-- BSR stands for building safety regulator-- and the submissions that are going to be required to meet this new level of requirement.
Wherever you work in the world, there's usually a level of documentation that needs to be submitted to your local regulatory body to gain permission to build. And in the UK, before the 1st of October, this would have been a standard building control full plan submission.
However, for now, for any new developments coming under the jurisdiction of the building safety regulator, the gateway to submissions, as we call them, require much greater levels of depth with items such as, obviously, plans or to phrase is a complete design, a competence declaration, building regulation compliance statement, fire and emergency file, a construction control plan, a change control plan, mandatory occurrence reporting plan, and also, where applicable, a partial completion strategy.
Now, one of the really interesting inclusions here is the construction control plan. And this is a big step change for the industry and a shift of the burden of proof, as you are now being asked to submit a detailed plan about how you will ensure quality on a project. And on a project, that will enable you to prove that technical compliance retrospectively.
Now, there's been a lot on a previous slide that we could focus on. But if we focus on the construction control plan and schedule I section 2 of the Higher Risk Building Procedures England, Regulations 2023 spells out exactly what should be included in this.
And to summarize, it's a strategy to ensure that contractor competence, including arrangements for ensuring the information, instruction, and training is provided to those carrying out building work is sufficient, also a strategy for cooperation between designers, contractors, and for sharing information.
But I think, most importantly, this document should spell out strategies, and policies, and procedures for planning, managing, and monitoring high risk building work to ensure compliance with building regulations and to record evidence of that compliance and also the arrangements the client has adopted to maintain that golden thread of information.
So this is where the power of a platform can really come into play, as we look to combine all these different technical aspects and functions together into a cohesive plan and executable workflows which can be centered around assets. Now, our assets can be spatial, in terms of apartments, zones, rooms within a building. But they can also be physical assets, such as perhaps a fire door.
We firstly list out the asset types and categories that we wish to compile against. And then we begin to add our base data-- so things like metadata from models, drawings, schematics, or other model information, approved submittal information, as we've just looked at. And we then looked at our time-based components through this, so using our schedules, all sorts of pull-out things like tasks, which can be used to define the executable quality control plan.
And then finally, in terms of assigning those quality control processes which are defined by the asset type and category, this will allow the evidence piece to be recorded, including any photographs, videos, and issues raised in a structured way. And as the project progresses, the status of that asset can be updated and a feedback loop created with the project schedule. Finally, all of this can be consistently reported, and constantly reported, and visualized through dashboards and Insights module within your Autodesk Construction Cloud.
Now, our asset-based commissioning is really where our site teams reap the benefits of the hard work put in by the design teams earlier in the project. Remember those data parameters that we talked about earlier on and about assigning responsibility to our sub-consultants and suppliers.
Well, this is where the Asset module really is able to strip out that asset registered directly from a model and bring with it any of those parametric data values which we need to maintain or update during the construction phase. And if we have a quick look at this process now, you'll see that our assets and parameters have been mapped and imported from the design model, giving a huge head start in creating that critical data we need to transfer over to the client.
Here, we can build out intelligent databases of project information, which we can begin to quickly filter through using any of the attributes such as maybe level, or type, or object. And if we do go and select an individual asset, you can see that all of the metadata is-- all of the metadata we select from the model has been assigned to that individual asset, along with any empty fields that we might want to populate during the installation process, such as maybe installation date, warranty start date, warranty end date, or any other relevant information.
And also within there, we will be generating a hyperlink directly back to that model element. And if we go and click on that hyperlink, and it's taken us directly to the location of that 3D model element. And we can use those navigation tools to navigate and roam freely within that space.
If we maybe actually take the example of a fire door here, we're actually also able to bring up things like the parameters within the model and start to cross-reference exactly what's been designed with what has been installed and updated within your asset parameters.
Now, in terms of making some of these workflows mobile-friendly, and accessible, and useful to teams on site, the asset sheet mockups are key. And we can map specific assets to locations within the drawing, which enables site teams to quickly access this information whilst navigating on a mobile device.
As the asset status starts to change, so does the color of the markup, giving us a clear way to visually track progress. And finally, when it comes to exporting this data, we can obviously create things like PDF exports, but also CSV and Excel exports of the data, which we can then start to use for information exchanges throughout the various stages of a project.
In terms of the planning side of the inspection and testing, the schedule function in ACC enables us to control and feed back on the overall procedures and timescales for quality inspections. Native third party programming formats can be imported into ACC platform to surface schedules for use by project teams and to enable data linkages with other functions within the platform.
The example we can see here is the ability to take that schedule item and assign it for installation of the interior doors and to assign that to one or multiple assets. This way, we can easily sequence the tasks to be complete to ensure no quality checks item-- no quality check items are missed. And we can also easily cross-reference and report back to the project team on any delays in the commissioning process.
Autodesk Build enables a variety of quality control workflows, both form and issue-based, which can be customized to specific project requirements. Autodesk Builds offers use of things like smart PDFs to make the transition from paper to digital as easy as possible.
And as we can see in the video here, a specific ITP form for fire doors has been created as a template including things like signatures for specific hall points. And we can link that directly to things like the asset category. Instances of that form can be created, either in advance per asset or initiated by the site team at the time of the inspection. And each completed form instance will then reside as a construction evidence piece against that relevant specific asset if it is ever needed to be recovered or sourced in the future.
To execute some of these site-based workflows, operatives and inspectors have access to the Autodesk Construction Cloud app, where they can access very specific asset information using things like barcodes, QR codes, NFC tags, or even via those sheet markups. All of that detailed information we've collated is then accessible for them to carry out the installation and quality control checks on that asset.
In this instance, we can see the metadata we derived from the model is listed here along with some empty fields that might need to be populated by the site data-- by the site data collection team. Within our references, as you can see, we have a link to that approved submittal item with the stamps on the product data. And when it comes to accessing things like the relevant form, an instance of the form has been generated and ready to be completed using a simple and intuitive user interface.
We can fill out the relevant form and add the relevant signatures at the various hold points, all whilst keeping the asset status up to date for real-time reporting. The asset markup function is then allowing us to, first of all, see exactly where this particular asset is situated. But secondly, it's going to give us a visual color reference, so we can understand the exact status of a particular asset.
The link back into the schedule item from the link reference enables the site operatives to give quick feedback on the completion status and of the task to report back on any difference between things like planned and actual completion dates, or any cost implications, or anything along those lines.
Finally, with a new addition into the platform recently, we also have an asset status progress. And we're able to very quickly go and access that to look at how many outstanding checks are due and the exact status of each firedoor in the inspection or ITP process.
So I talked a few slides back about our extensive partner network. And the example here I have on the screen has now been provided by one of our colleagues, Jason, at our partner, Oculo. And the reason I wanted to show this is because it's a great example of how reality capture solutions can be used for quickly capturing data in the field.
But then using the APIs and pre-built connections to the Autodesk Construction Cloud, the data which is collected in the solution is not just another digital silo. A firestopping issue here, which has been identified during a site walkaround for example, can be pushed back into ACC and managed centrally alongside other project issues. It can bring with it the metadata, photographs, and a direct link back into the Oculo scene.
This is very powerful and why open platforms and systems are so critical and critically important, as delivering the golden thread of information and levels of construction evidence which are now required is going to require multiple platforms working in unison.
As an end note, throughout the day-to-day use of the Autodesk Construction Cloud and those workflows, we're creating a huge amount of structured data, which can be leveraged to give critical project insights. To allow teams to report on this data in their own way, the Data Connector Tool provides a direct link to Microsoft Power BI, whilst also making available a large selection of pre-built dashboards to act as a starting point for your data analytics.
One of the key workflows relevant to the golden thread of information that this enables is to tie those multiple processes together and provide unified information tracking within the project, but also potentially then across multiple platforms. Rather than arrive at the end of the project with missing information, using custom built dashboards, we can track and check off information as it's generated and delivered, ensuring that we're fully compliant.
KRISTINA POLUYANOVA: Thank you, Chris and Lee. And with that, let's now discuss what we, as Autodesk, are offering to help the industry move forward with the new legislation. First of all, well, just in a nutshell, we have created a series of product webinars and product blogs to support the topic. And they are designed to align with the overall key themes that Chris just described related to Building Safety Act gateways.
We also have launched a series of product and workflow videos available on our YouTube channel that are telling you how our offerings can support the industry moving forward in regards with the regulations underpinned within the Building Safety Act. Now that we have seen industry requirements, how the industry is reacting, we have looked into product specifics and workflows. You may be wondering, all right, what is in this for me? And how can I start?
Let's go back to the beginning of the class and remind ourselves what's the name of our presentation. We came here to help you create a blueprint for global quality and safety, to equip you with tools, techniques, and the why behind the process. We have seen that the Building Safety Act in the UK aims to establish a new regulatory framework to oversee the safety and standards of buildings, especially high risk residential buildings.
This is a system that combines local requirements regulators with a central authority, focusing on resident safety, construction integrity, and ongoing maintenance. Other countries actually have similar regulatory frameworks that, in many cases, are not yet perhaps that structures or regulated controlled by the government in a rigid and robust way.
However, the importance and need for quality and safety standards is growing all over the world. And here, you will see some of the examples for this. And hopefully, there are people here in the room or watching us who can relate to one of these standards and their application to their regions.
Why does it matter? And where can you start? We believe that the Building Safety Act or regulations following safety and quality for high rise residential buildings in particular are like your autopsy around the project. First of all, they are helping you to build for the future. So you are not just building and walking away. You're actually planning how you'll access crucial data later.
Second of all, it's about connections and technologies. You are determining the necessary connections and choosing the appropriate technologies for seamless integration. And Chris has spoken a lot about that. You're navigating security and regulations. You are being prepared for stricter safety regulations and increased security concerns before everybody else.
And last but not the least, you are focused on information storage and retrieval. You are considering the role of technology in storing and retrieving information securely and efficiently. So the advice here is to prioritize a system for storing and accessing data for long-term viability and balancing innovation with compliance to meet future security and regulatory needs.
So the advice we hear is to start planning now because your future success depends on the decision you make today. With that, we would like to thank you for sitting through this class. And we hope you will enjoy the rest of AU.