Digital Building Manual

A Digital Building Manual serves as a comprehensive reference guide, providing essential information for the effective operation, maintenance, and management of any given asset. Designed to streamline access to critical data, digital versions of the manual include detailed documentation on architectural specifications, engineering systems, compliance standards, and operational procedures. By leveraging digital accessibility, users can efficiently navigate and retrieve pertinent details, ensuring the building’s sustainability, safety, and optimal performance throughout its lifecycle.

BCAL have compiled building manuals for well over 20 years for main contractors and property developers, having seen them through their various forms from their inception as paper copies through their transition to electronic formats such as pdf and now as cloud-based seamlessly BIM linked information resources as part of the UK’s digital transformation. 2025 was marked by the release of our latest version which uses the Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) platform, providing clients with our most powerful offering ever. Now more feature packed than ever before which provides interoperability with a seemingly exhaustive list of external applications means that it can effectively be used to facilitate ‘end-to-end’ digitisation of any organisation.

Key features now include:

• Comprehensive information storage & sharing via a single self-contained platform
• Fault reporting/snagging
• Intuitive 3D model viewer powered by Autodesk
• Embedded H&S information
• Embedded embodied carbon and sustainability information
• Virtual reality (VR) functions
• Material quantity take-offs and building analytics

Our high-profile client list includes:

• Lovell
• Kier Construction
• BAM Construction
• Glencar Construction
• Tilbury Douglas
• Segro
• Argent
• Tritax Symmetry
• PLP Property
• Osbourne