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Building Safety Act

Building Safety & Beyond

A collection of resources to help you navigate the ever-evolving regulatory landscape of Building Safety and how to leverage this data beyond compliance

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Autodesk Construction Cloud

Autodesk Construction Cloud

Connecting workflows, teams and data at every stage of construction to reduce risk, maximise efficiency, and increase profits.

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Naviate Bimfire

Naviate Bimfire

A Revit plugin for fire safety design, Naviate Bimfire lets fire safety information integrate directly into the BIM process for a digital workflow.

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Oculo

Oculo

On-site Construction progress tracking solution which combines hard-hat cameras, BIM models/floorplans & artificial intelligence to remotely view, share & track on-site progress.

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Awareness and Assessment Service
Areas of Expertise

Supplementary solutions to drive sustainability and create digital twins utilising the data captured for the Building Safety Act:

Helping you make smart, sustainable material selections directly in your Revit model.

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Life cycle assessment software for calculating and reducing the environmental impacts of your projects.

 

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Service Works Global

Computer Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) Software allowing ultimate control of your facilities and workspace.

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Case Study Digitising fire safety design in a BIM environment with Brandprojektering Sverige AB
Blog Evidencing and auditing the construction process with Oculo.
Blog Supporting the Building Safety Act with Oculo: A new era in construction safety
Blog Why Oculo is participating in the Golden Thread Initiative to help prevent future building disasters.
Blog Revit – Bringing Fire Protection into the world of BIM
Blog Should the fire engineer be involved in the design stage of a building?
Briab BIMfire Exclusive Screening This on-demand session looks at the challenges currently facing fire safety engineers in an industry where BIM is an accepted practice and show how BIMfire tools can be brought into the world of digital engineering and what it has to offer.

Webinars On-Demand

Enhancing Building Safety: Bringing Fire Protection Data into BIM Find out how and why integrating fire safety information directly into your BIM models can significantly enhance the design, construction and maintenance of safer buildings.
Building Safety Act: Guidance, Responsibilities, Impact In this webinar, we considered the key questions surrounding the Building Safety Act to help you comply with the latest legislation.
Understanding the new digital management of Fire Safety Information Standard BS8644-1 Watch this video to learn more about the new fire safety standard, why it was introduced, and how to remain compliant.
nima Virtual Conference 2023: Building Safety Panel Discussion The focus of the conference was how to understand and use data to meet today’s urgent needs across the built environment.


Smarter Building: A podcast hosted by Symetri

Tune into our podcasts where we chat with industry experts around best practice, new legislations including fire safety, trends, and technology in the evolving digital landscape in construction.

BUILDING SAFETY ACT: DOES IT DELIVER? In this episode of our Smarter Building podcast, we caught up with Dame Judith Hackitt, author of the 2018 "Building a Safer Future" report and adviser to UK and Australian Governments on Building Safety.
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH OCULO In this episode of our Smarter Building podcast, we caught up with Tom Kotecki, Co-Founder & CEO at Oculo, on becoming a tech entrepreneur, how digital site capture technology is becoming the future of project progress tracking and why organisations are adopting this now.
THE FUTURE NORMAL POST GRENFELL TOWER In this episode of our Smarter Building podcast, we caught up with Varun Soni, Partner at calfordseaden and Part of the Facilitation Team at WeAreNima.im, on fire safety and the recently released BS8644-1 standard which Varun had some involvement in the creation of.
THE FUTURE NORMAL POST GRENFELL - A DESIGN VIEW In this episode of our Smarter Building podcast, we caught up with Brent Rees, Partner at Ridge and Partners LLP, who is also a chartered construction professional (MCIAT). Listen to this episode to hear his thoughts on fire safety and the recently released BS8644-1 standard and how his team is developing digital innovations to help with the compliance and digitisation of this.
Guide: A Guide to the Digital Requirements of Fire Safety Compliance Symetri’s guide on the digital requirements of the Building & Fire Safety Acts, and the BS8644-1 Digital Management of Fire Safety Information Standard
Whitepaper: How to prepare for the Building Safety Act This whitepaper looks at how you can prepare for the Building Safety Act, brought together by a panel of experts from across the built environment.
Brochure: How will the Building Safety Act affect my business? Introducing Symetri's Awareness and Assessment Service.
2025 Building Safety Summit Register your interest for our fourth Building Safety Summit in October to hear first-hand insights and updates around the Building Safety Act! REGISTER INTEREST

Building Safety Summit | 10th October 2023


As of 1st October, all new high risk building projects will be required to go through a process of proceeding through different gateways at various stages of a project, in accordance with the Building Safety Act. In addition, all existing high risk buildings will need to be registered with the government by this date.

This event provided insights from industry experts on the latest advancements to the Building Safety Act & BS 8644 standards, best practices on remaining compliant, why and how to adopt these necessary workflows for more than just high risk building projects, and more!

Download the slides below or fill in the form to access the presentation recordings.

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Explore our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), covering a wide array of topics on the Building Safety Act from industry experts including: 

  • Dame Judith Hackitt - Author of the 2018 "Building a Safer Future" report and Adviser to UK and Australian Governments on Building Safety
  • Debi Waite - Head of Operations (Investigations and Intelligence Unit) from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE)
  • Mark Turner - BIM Manager at AEW Architects 
  • Varun Soni - Partner at calfordseaden and one of the authors of BS 8644

The FAQs will be released in two parts. Please access Part 1 below and stay tuned for Part 2 coming soon!

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Meet our Fire Safety Experts

If you would like to discuss any aspect of your strategy or processes, we're offering a free 30 minute appointment with one of our construction consultants. Click here to book.

For more information about Symetri and how we can help in the meantime, read our brochure.

Steve Rudge

Steve Rudge

Head of Technical and Delivery - AEC

Working in a multi-disciplined design and build environment for 24+ years, Steve has vast knowledge of the problems that will be encountered on projects of all sizes, and provides suitable solutions. Steve’s main expertise lies in the design, construction and management workflow of information and technology requirements to ensure a project meets the full requirements and data is reused through the delivery. Steve acts as the Project BIM manager and information manager for our clients and helps them de-risk and deliver the project to meet the full defined requirements.

Tom Rudge

Tom Rudge

Digital Construction Consultant
Whilst working onsite for several years, Tom gained his experience in Site Engineering and Management. He worked as a main contractor, guiding supply chain partners on day-to-day site delivery activities. It’s this very background that Tom brings to the consultant delivery team, allowing Symetri’s clients to benefit from his knowledge of new BIM processes and technology. To further increase his skill set, Tom has gained a MSc degree in BIM and Digital Built Environments to help bring more ideas to the construction division. Tom has a passion that envisions the future of construction going digital and believes technology will play a large part of daily site activities not too far in the future.
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Steve Rudge

Head of Consulting - Construction

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