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The UK BIM Framework’s role in building safety regulations

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Dan Rossiter reflects on the latest flurry of further details about the Building Safety Act 2022 and how they intersect with the UK BIM Framework.

Recently, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has published several further regulations under the Building Safety Act 2022. Reading through these new statutory instruments, it is interesting to see how important the generation, structuring and classifying of information is to support building safety. 

However, it is worth noting that the regulatory duty to provide information is nothing new. Historically, there has always been a duty to provide information. For example:

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