Compliance and standards

Built for the duties that keep buildings safe.

Property and maintenance compliance is a myriad of overlapping obligations encompassing building, fire, and health and safety law, as well as maintenance standards such as SFG20. CFacil gives dutyholders a structured, version-controlled way to schedule and carry out work, and evidence it effectively.

Why it matters

Compliance is only as good as the evidence behind it.

Modern regulations, and the Building Safety Act in particular, has shifted the bar from "we maintain our buildings" to "show us, with accurate and current records, exactly what was checked, by whom, and when." That standard of proof is what CFacil is built to produce.

Robust compliance recordkeeping

  • Captured at source. Evidence is recorded at the point of work, keeping the link between a check, its result, and its timestamp intact.
  • Version-controlled. Audits are pinned to the exact template version used, so a record always reflects the checklist that was actually applied.
  • Continuous trail. Findings, defects, and remediation form a history you can present to a regulator, insurer, or tribunal.
Standards and legislation

How CFacil supports each obligation.

CFacil is an enabling tool, not a substitute for a competent person or a formal assessment. Here is how its capabilities map to the standards property teams work to.

SFG20

Planned maintenance schedules

SFG20 is the recognised industry standard for building engineering maintenance, defining task schedules, frequencies, and criticality (including statutory and mandatory tasks) that are revised as guidance changes.

How CFacil helps Reusable templates and check items mirror SFG20 task schedules; recurring frequencies (daily to annually) drive planned maintenance; per-check criticality flags statutory work; and template versioning lets you adopt schedule updates while older audits stay pinned to the version they used.
Building Act 1984

Building standards and control

The Building Act 1984 is the primary legislation under which the Building Regulations are made, governing the standards buildings are constructed and altered to and the building control process.

How CFacil helps A structured hierarchy of sites, buildings, floors, and zones holds the records and ongoing condition evidence that support demonstrating compliance, with exportable reports to share during building control engagement.
Building Safety Act 2022

The golden thread of information

The Building Safety Act introduced dutyholder and accountable person responsibilities for higher-risk buildings and the golden thread: building safety information that is accurate, current, and accessible throughout a building's life.

How CFacil helps A continuous, time-stamped audit trail, audits hard-linked to the template versions and checks they came from, centralised evidence and attachments, and retained history all contribute to maintaining an accurate, accessible golden thread.
Fire Safety Act 2021

Managing fire risk

The Fire Safety Act 2021 clarified the scope of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, confirming the Responsible Person must assess and manage fire risk, including structure, external walls, and flat entrance doors, and keep the fire risk assessment current.

How CFacil helps Schedule recurring fire safety inspections (fire doors, compartmentation, alarms, extinguishers, escape routes), capture findings with severity, and track remediation of defects, giving the Responsible Person a defensible, repeatable record.
Health & Safety at Work etc. Act 1974

Safe systems, evidenced

The Act places an overarching duty to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety, and welfare of employees and others, supported by risk assessment, safe systems of work, and record keeping.

How CFacil helps Risk-based criticality on checks, regular and ad-hoc inspections, role-appropriate access for health and safety officers, and a complete audit trail with reporting evidence proactive, demonstrable management of risk.
Operational excellence

Beyond the minimum

Meeting the letter of each duty is the floor, not the ceiling. Repeat issues, overdue work, and trends are where real risk and cost accumulate.

How CFacil helps Summary widgets for due, overdue, awaiting QA, and sync issues, repeat-finding suggestions, and trend analysis turn raw audit data into the early warnings that drive continuous improvement.
Offline-first and compliance integrity

Why working offline protects your record, not just your day.

Offline-first is not only a convenience for engineers in dead spots, it is what keeps compliance evidence trustworthy from capture to closure.

Evidence at source

Photos and results are captured where the work is, preserving the link between a finding and its moment in time.

Encrypted at rest

Sensitive offline data is encrypted with AES-GCM-256 before it touches storage, supporting your data protection obligations.

No compliance gaps

Inspections proceed without connectivity and sync later, so a dead spot never becomes a missing record.

Defensible sync

Every record's sync state is visible, and the server revalidates on sync, so the authoritative record stays trustworthy.

An honest word on scope

CFacil helps you organise, carry out, and evidence compliance activity. It doesn't certify your buildings, write your fire risk assessment, or stand in for a competent person, registered engineer, or fire risk assessor. Statutory duties and accountability remain with the dutyholder. What CFacil does is make meeting and proving those duties materially easier, more consistent, and harder to lose. Some advanced capabilities are in active development; ask us what is live today during a demo.

Map CFacil to your compliance regime.

Bring your standards and your toughest sites. We will run a real audit, offline and online, and show how the evidence holds up.