Fire safety remediation

Golden Thread software for fire safety remediation.

BRCKS is Golden Thread software for UK fire safety remediation contractors — a timestamped record of every elevation, barrier and sign-off, built from chat.

BRCKS creates the timestamped digital record the Building Safety Act demands — from your team's existing WhatsApp workflow, not a separate system they won't use.

  • WhatsApp capture
  • Auto site diary
  • Variations with audit trail
  • RFIs with external tracking
  • 360° site tours
  • Client / BSR portal

Download and start free · Free to start · Watch the demo · Works alongside WhatsApp

  • Site team: Tower A - cladding strip back complete on east elevation, levels 8-12 📸
  • BRCKS Bot: Filed to Tower A — Golden Thread updated ✅ Photos timestamped + pinned to elevation drawing. BSR-ready record locked in.
  • Site team: Tower A - RFI to fire engineer on cavity barrier spec at parapet
  • BRCKS Bot: RFI-031 raised with fire engineer 🔥 Full audit trail open: requested, sent, chased at 48h ⏰

Say it in the chat. It lands in the job.

Capture what will be hidden

Strip-back, cavity barriers and fire-stopping photos are filed to the elevation and level before they're closed up.

Design queries tracked

RFIs to the fire engineer carry a chase deadline and a full audit trail of who asked and when.

One record, many readers

The client, Accountable Person and regulator each read the same dated record.

The Golden Thread. Built automatically.

Building Safety Act — every decision, recorded

The Golden Thread must be complete, dated, and defensible. Build it retrospectively and you'll have gaps. Build it from WhatsApp manually and you'll have errors.

Compliance systems your site team won't use

A separate portal nobody logs into produces a record nobody trusts. Your team already communicates on WhatsApp — the record should build itself from that.

Proof of what's behind the cladding

Once it's replaced, it's gone. Without a permanent visual record of each remediation stage, you're defending the work from memory three years later.

Everyone uses what suits them. It all lands in the same job.

On site — BRCKS Chat: Operatives chat. The Golden Thread grows.

Supervisors post strip-back, barrier and fire-stopping photos in BRCKS Chat, filed by block, elevation and level.

  • Photos filed by elevation and level
  • Inspections logged with sign-off
  • Elevation drawings built in
  • Site access info on every block

In the office — BRCKS Web: Every block, every RFI, one screen.

Project and compliance leads see progress, RFIs, variations and inspections across every block in BRCKS Web.

  • RFIs with chase deadlines
  • Variations with dated approval
  • Automatic site diary
  • Client and BSR exports

Sticks to WhatsApp — BRCKS on WhatsApp: Operatives and consultants stay on WhatsApp.

Subcontracted operatives, fire engineers and the client keep using WhatsApp. Their updates join the record.

  • Nothing to install
  • Photos and sign-offs by message
  • Free for subbies, consultants and clients

Your trades stay on WhatsApp.

Subcontracted operatives, fire engineers and the client keep using WhatsApp. Their updates join the record. Snags, sign-offs and photos land in the right job, and your team can reply from BRCKS Chat.

  • WhatsApp: Tower A, level 9 east: cavity barriers installed, photos attached.
  • BRCKS Bot: Filed to Tower A — level 9 east: cavity barriers installed, timestamped for the Golden Thread.
  • WhatsApp: Tower A snag: fire-stopping missing at riser, level 10.
  • BRCKS Bot: Snag 6 logged for Tower A — level 10 riser: fire-stopping missing, assigned to passive fire.

Free for subbies and clients. How WhatsApp project management works

“The lads just chat like they always did. The difference is nothing gets lost now.”

Sam, BPM

Simple prices. Start free.

  • Solo

    £20/mo — one user, billed annually. £25 billed monthly.

  • Teams (most popular)

    £40/seat/mo — per core-team member, billed annually. £50 billed monthly.

  • Subbies & clients

    Free — invite your trades and clients to every job. They just use WhatsApp.

All prices + VAT. See full pricing

What the Golden Thread actually requires

The Building Safety Act 2022 expects information about a higher-risk building to be accurate, up to date, held digitally and handed on. In practice that means someone must be able to show, years later, what was found, what was installed, who signed it off and when. Remediation work destroys the evidence as it progresses: once the cladding is off and the new system is on, the only record of the original condition is the one you captured at the time.

How BRCKS builds it as you work

  • Every WhatsApp message, photo and voice note is filed to the block, elevation and level with an immutable timestamp.
  • 360° tours capture whole elevations and risers before they are closed up.
  • Fire-stopping and cavity barrier inspections are logged as snags with proof-of-fix photos and sign-off.
  • Design queries become tracked RFIs with a chase deadline against the consultant.
  • Scope changes become priced variations with dated written approval.
  • The daily record is written automatically by the site diary, not from memory at 9pm.

Why adoption is the whole battle

Compliance platforms fail on site for one reason: the operatives who hold the evidence will not log into them. BRCKS asks nothing of them beyond the WhatsApp message they were already sending, which is why the record stays complete instead of stopping three weeks after kick-off. Your BSR submissions, client reports and warranty file all come from the same trail.

Who has to be satisfied by the record

Fire safety remediation is unusual in how many parties need to read the same file. The client or freeholder wants progress and cost certainty. The Accountable Person needs to discharge a legal duty. The Building Safety Regulator may ask for information at gateway points. The warranty provider and the eventual building owner need to know what is behind the wall. Insurers and funders ask for the same evidence in a different format.

Producing five versions of the truth is how errors creep in. BRCKS holds one dated record and lets each party read the part that concerns them — the portal for the client, exports for the BSR file, a snag and sign-off log for the fire engineer.

Capturing what will soon be hidden

The evidence problem in remediation is timing. Cavity barriers, fire-stopping at service penetrations, insulation build-ups and riser details are all visible for a matter of days. Once the new system is installed, no amount of documentation can recreate what was there. Photographs taken at the time, filed to the correct elevation and level, with a date that cannot be back-edited, are the whole asset.

360° tours do the same job at room and elevation scale, which is why teams use them before closing risers and after strip-back. Both live in the same project as the diary, the snags and the RFIs rather than on somebody's phone.

RFIs, design changes and the paper trail

Remediation projects generate constant design queries because the as-built rarely matches the drawing. Each query becomes a tracked RFI with a named recipient and a deadline, so a four-week wait on a fire engineer's response is visible and provable rather than an argument at the end. When the answer changes the scope, it becomes a priced variation with dated written approval attached to the message that started it.

Start on one block

Run BRCKS on a single block or elevation for a fortnight and look at the trail it produced. Nothing changes for the operatives. Start a 14-day free trial, check pricing (subcontractors and clients free), watch the demo or talk to us to talk through your Golden Thread obligations.

Everything that comes with BRCKS

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Fire safety remediation software — questions answered

Does BRCKS help with the Golden Thread under the Building Safety Act?
Yes. BRCKS files every message, photo and sign-off to the block, elevation and level with a timestamp, building a dated digital record of the remediation as the work happens.
Can BRCKS record work before it is covered up?
Yes. Strip-back, cavity barriers and fire-stopping are photographed and filed before they're closed in, and 360° tours can capture whole elevations.
Can the regulator or client read the record?
Yes. Clients can follow progress in the portal, and records can be exported for the Building Safety Regulator, warranty providers and the building owner.
Do operatives need to install an app?
No. Subcontracted operatives and consultants can stay on WhatsApp. Their updates join the record and they are free.
How much does BRCKS cost for a remediation contractor?
BRCKS Solo is £20 a month billed annually (£25 monthly) for one user. BRCKS Teams is £40 per core-team seat a month billed annually (£50 monthly). Prices exclude VAT. Subcontractors, trades and clients are always free.
Can I try BRCKS free?
Yes. You can start free on iPhone, Android or the web, with no card needed and no minimum contract.

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