Gateway 3 is not a task or a triage. It is continuous, total protection of the consented design — from the moment the Regulator's Consent Notice lands, through every day of construction, to handover. The design becomes sacred. STRAND holds the line.
The instant the Consent Notice is ingested, STRAND locks every consented artefact as a read-only baseline — the design bible. From that point, nothing is ever edited into the design. Every subsequent change is recorded as a deviation against the baseline, priced, programmed, and put in front of the right people.
STRAND holds the complete truth of the project: where every component belongs, by whom, when, how and why. From then on, every document that arrives must support that position — or it's flagged as drift, instantly, as your problem to know about, not STRAND's to absorb.
An issued drawing, compared against the protected baseline — and a change the paperwork never declared, surfaced the instant it arrived.
From the moment consent is sealed to the day the building is handed over, STRAND runs as a layered oversight system — each layer doing a distinct job, all of them running at once. Click into any layer to see what it does.
The Consent Notice arrives, the design locks as a protected baseline, and the project flips from assessment into continuous oversight — a documented, timestamped, human-confirmed transition.
Before works begin, STRAND compiles the programme, analyses lead-times, supports procurement, and tightens contract language so ambiguity can't be exploited later. It protects the procurement the way sealing protects the design.
As works proceed, every asset becomes a node in a living evidence graph — deliveries, materials, COSHH, daily diaries and as-builts attaching as they happen. The building's evidence assembles itself in real time.
Every document that arrives is recognised, authenticated and routed to the right place. Anything ambiguous is quarantined, never lost — built for the volume and variety of a live construction site.
The continuous watch: change classified against the baseline, cost and programme impact computed, mandatory occurrence and RIDDOR events detected, cumulative drift analysed — every output traceable and recorded.
One data spine, many views — each audience gets its own dashboard, and the regulatory dossiers (the Gateway 3 application, the Reg 38 pack, FM handover, the safety case foundation) assemble continuously, never scrambled at the end.
Every project is judged against the regulation in force the day it started — fixed for its lifetime. New rules flow to new projects, never retroactively.
STRAND is mission-critical for a live project, so inbound information is captured and recovered even through an outage. No document sent to STRAND is ever dropped.
STRAND classifies, prices, and recommends — but at the seams the law reserves for a competent person, it stops and puts the decision in front of the right human.
Determinative by design: it never guesses, never drifts, and reaches the same verdict on the same evidence every time. What it doesn't know, it asks.
Every action is captured immutably and timestamped at the moment it occurs — the record is built while the work is done, never reconstructed afterwards.
A project is known only by a number; the people on it, only by an email address. STRAND holds your evidence, never your people's personal data — by design.
Because STRAND can decompose a project, it can run separate, protected gateways for phased works — a substructure taken up to transfer slab under its own approval, ahead of the main consent for the superstructure above. Each phase gets its own sealed baseline and its own continuous oversight, exactly as the real construction sequence demands. Most tools can't model this at all.
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