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GOLDEN THREAD COMPLIANCE

Build your Golden Thread as you build

Capture quality checks, evidence, issues and approvals against the work as it happens - creating a structured, traceable construction record throughout delivery.

No chasing evidence at the end. The record is created through the work itself.

Don't wait until handover to build the record

When evidence is scattered across emails, folders and spreadsheets, creating a reliable construction record becomes a project of its own.
Sablono captures quality information in a structured way as work progresses - connected to the relevant work, location and responsible team.
FROM SITE TO RECORD

Make quality information part of the work

Sablono connects three things that are often managed separately: the work being delivered, the evidence that proves it and the people responsible for it.
STANDARDISATION

Make evidence part of the process

Define the quality checks, required evidence and approvals before work starts. Teams follow the same process across units, levels and work packages, helping create a consistent construction record.
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Build your Golden Thread as you build

Capture quality evidence, approvals and project records as work happens — creating a traceable digital record throughout delivery.
QUALITY AUDIT TRAIL

Connect the evidence to the work

Quality checks, photos, issues and approvals remain connected to the work they relate to - including who recorded them and when.
Instead of reconstructing the history later, you have a traceable record of how quality was managed throughout delivery.
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HANDOVER & LONGEVITY

The thread has to outlive the project team

Keep the construction quality record accessible beyond the people who originally delivered the work. Export and hand over structured evidence so future teams can understand what was built, inspected and approved.
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GOLDEN THREAD PRINCIPLES

Build a stronger digital construction record

The principles behind the golden thread are demanding in the same way good delivery is. Most of them stop being work once the record is produced by the act of building.

Accuracy

Capture information at the point of work rather than reconstructing it later.

Single source of truth

Progress and quality report into the same record. Updates happen in the system rather than through emails that quietly bypass it.

Accountability

Record who completed, reviewed and approved the work.

Consistency

Use standardised workflows and quality templates across teams and locations.

Accessibility

Find quality information by project structure, work, team or status.

Longevity

The trail persists for decades and exports in open formats, so it survives the project team, the contract and the software the next owner chooses.

Security

Enterprise-grade hosting with role-based access, so the record is shared with the supply chain without being exposed to it.
AUDIT TRAIL AND COMPLIANCE

FAQs

What is the golden thread? It is two things: the safety information about a building, and the management of that information. It has to be held as structured digital information, kept accurate and up to date through design, construction and occupation, and handed on so the right people can find what they need at the time they need it.
Which buildings does it apply to? Buildings at least 18 metres tall or with at least seven storeys, including care homes and hospitals meeting the same threshold during design and construction. Dutyholders carry the obligation during design and construction; the accountable person carries it during occupation.
How does Sablono create it? Trades report in Sablono as they complete work. Standardised workflows and digital QAs require the information and photographs before an activity can be signed off, and every entry records the company, the person, the time and the revision. The audit trail is the accumulation of that, unit by unit.
Is Sablono the whole golden thread? No. Sablono carries the construction record — what was built, inspected, corrected and approved, by whom and when. Design documents, as-built drawings and commissioning certificates come from your design and services teams and sit alongside it.
Can the accountable person use it after handover? That is the point of exporting it as structured data rather than scans. The record stays queryable for years, which is what makes it useful for risk assessments, resident questions and claims long after the project team has moved on.