April 16, 2026 Industry news
GS1 UK has been recognised at the Digital Construction Live Awards, winning Most innovative new software product for the Digital Building Logbook, developed by EcoWise in collaboration with GS1 UK and GS1 Ireland.
The award reflects growing industry recognition that data standards have a practical role to play in construction, particularly as demands for better safety, regulatory compliance and sustainability reporting continue to increase. The Digital Building Logbook shows how trusted data foundations can move beyond theory and support clearer, more consistent ways of working across the built environment.
Responding to long standing data challenges in construction
Construction projects generate large volumes of information at every stage, from design and construction through to occupation and ongoing management. In practice, this information is often fragmented, held in multiple systems and structured in different ways. For those responsible for buildings, this can make it difficult to access accurate and up to date product and asset information, especially when managing safety critical data or responding to regulatory requirements.
The Digital Building Logbook addresses these challenges by introducing a more structured and verifiable approach to managing product and asset information. Rather than relying on static documents that can quickly become outdated, the platform links information directly to specific products and assets. This supports continuity of data across the building lifecycle and helps ensure that information remains accessible long after construction has been completed.
How standards support trusted information
The Digital Building Logbook is underpinned by GS1 global identifiers, including the Global Trade Item Number, Global Location Number and Global Individual Asset Identifier.
These identifiers provide a common language that enables products, locations and assets to be uniquely identified and consistently referenced by all parties involved in a project.
By connecting these identifiers to trusted data through GS1 Digital Link, the Logbook enables users to scan and access relevant information quickly and with confidence.
This supports traceability, verification and auditability, ensuring information remains accurate and dependable as buildings move from construction into long term operation and management.
In practical terms, this reduces duplication of effort, supports clearer accountability and improves confidence that information shared across supply chains remains consistent over time.
Supporting policy and regulatory priorities
The recognition comes at a time when construction is being asked to demonstrate higher levels of transparency and accountability. Requirements linked to the Building Safety Act, the Golden Thread of Information and emerging digital product passport expectations all rely on data that can be shared reliably across organisations and digital systems.
The Digital Building Logbook aligns closely with these priorities by supporting consistent identification and information exchange throughout the lifecycle of buildings and materials. By enabling product and asset data to be created once and reused many times, it helps ensure that information remains available and usable long after a project has been completed.
The solution also reflects wider work underway to prepare the construction sector for future digital product passport requirements, supporting traceability, compliance and sustainability objectives in a way that can scale across projects and supply chains.
Recognition across sectors
The award was presented by a member of the National Hospital Programme Information Management Committee, highlighting the relevance of standards based approaches across both construction and healthcare.
In both sectors, accurate and trusted information is critical to ensuring safety, meeting regulatory requirements and enabling effective long term asset management.
This cross sector recognition underlines the wider value of GS1 standards in supporting complex infrastructure programmes where information must remain reliable, interoperable and accessible over long timeframes.
Collaboration and delivery
The Digital Building Logbook is the result of close collaboration between EcoWise, GS1 UK and GS1 Ireland, bringing together standards expertise, delivery capability and industry insight. It reflects a shared focus on addressing real world challenges in construction, rather than developing technology for its own sake.
GS1 UK continues to work with partners across the built environment to apply global standards in practical ways, supporting digital transformation and helping the sector move towards more connected and transparent outcomes.
