Building Safety Wiki seeks to boost awareness of new fire regime

The Building Safety Wiki offers regular news updates, guidance, factual articles and expert insights on fire and building safety authored by a wide range of authoritative sources.

Set live online in advance of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report and recommendations, the Building Safety Wiki aims to help share vital knowledge and information regarding the new building safety regime pertaining in the UK, including the Building Safety Act 2022 and related fire safety legislation. 

Much of the content is drawn from existing articles in the long-established Designing Buildings Wiki, which already has more than seven million users every year and 20,000 registered users and hosts circa 300 articles covering building safety topics. That content, which was built up over more than ten years, will be updated and added to on an ongoing basis.

Users can easily find relevant information for their projects or disciplines by using the Building Safety Wiki’s search bar or quick links. Anyone can also contribute their knowledge and expertise to the Wiki, free of charge, by adding or editing articles to fill any important information gaps.

Knowledge gaps

The Building Safety Wiki is sponsored by Liz Male Consulting Ltd and Enframe Consulting. LMC is a PR and communications consultancy that works with UK and international innovators, change-makers and thought leaders in property, construction and the built environment.

Liz Male, founding director of LMC, said: “The new building safety regime affects all aspects of construction and the built environment, setting new standards, policies and processes to restore confidence in building safety. However, in our conversations with professionals across the industry, we often find big gaps in knowledge, confusion about the new rules or the assumption that ‘this doesn’t apply to me’. The final Grenfell Tower Inquiry Panel’s report in September will likely provide some shocks in its findings. Each of us needs to play our part in ensuring such a tragedy never happens again.”   

Enframe Consulting specialises in construction and design consultancy for architects, most notably delivering expert technical guidance on the Building Safety Act 2022.

Significant step forward

Will Freeman, director of Enframe Consulting, stated: “The Building Safety Wiki is a significant step forward in creating a centralised hub for essential building safety information. Our mission is to provide a platform where knowledge is shared freely and contributes towards safer building practices, ultimately saving lives.”

Freeman added: “All architects, engineers, contractors and clients should have the knowledge they need to ensure compliance and enhance safety standards across the industry. I hope many fire safety and building industry experts will now come forward and keep adding vital information to this Wiki. We want generations of students and industry professionals to benefit directly from their learning on the Wiki.”

*Visit the Building Safety Wiki at: https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/Building_Safety_wiki