Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread
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The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 5
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
The information clients, principal designers, principal contractors and accountable persons need to keep. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Why you must keep information about a building
- Higher-risk and high-rise residential buildings
- Managing and storing the information
- During design and construction of a higher-risk building
- Client's responsibilities
- At the end of the construction phase
- Principal designer's responsibilities
- Principal contractor's responsibilities
- When a building is occupied or could be occupied by residents
- Accountable persons' and principal accountable persons' responsibilities
- Sharing information
Source and licence
Building Safety Regulator
AttributionBuilding Safety Regulator, ‘Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread’ (updated 18 September 2024), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026