Keeping information about a higher-risk building: the golden thread

Publication Year

2026

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Details the information that needs to be kept by clients, principal designers, principal contractors and responsible persons regarding higher-risk buildings in Wales. Covers: why information must be kept about a building; higher-risk buildings; managing and storing the information; during design and construction of a higher-risk building; and identifying the responsible person for a building.

Document History

Sourced from: https://www.gov.wales/keeping-information-about-higher-risk-building-golden-thread and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 18 June 2026.

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