Compliance

Building a passive-fire golden thread

A useful golden thread is accurate, current, accessible and proportionate. For passive fire work, it should let a future reviewer understand the defect, decision, installed system and final condition.

6minute guideReviewed for an England-based audience
01

Before work starts

Capture the asset or location, existing construction, required performance, defect and agreed solution.

  • Drawings or location references
  • Survey photographs
  • Fire strategy or rating requirement
  • Approved product and tested detail
  • Design queries and exceptions
02

During installation

Photographs and checks taken before concealment are often the only lasting evidence of critical components.

  • Substrate and opening preparation
  • Fixings, supports and backing materials
  • System depth, overlaps and annular gaps
  • Installer and date
  • Inspection hold points
03

At handover

Close the loop by linking completion records to the original action and documenting anything unresolved.

  • Final status by asset
  • Before, during and after photographs
  • Product and test references
  • Certificates and inspection records
  • Access failures, departures and residual actions

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