Orilum brings design coordination, regulatory compliance, competency, environment, and portfolio oversight into a single platform that works across the tools your teams already use — from project-level workflow to boardroom-level visibility. Built for UK Tier 1 main contractors, with a platform architecture that extends to the clients, consultants, and developers who work alongside them.
A Senior Design Manager on a major UK construction project typically juggles five to ten different platforms: programme software, contract management, drawing management, common data environments, BIM coordination tools, quality reporting, markup tools.
These systems weren't built to talk to each other. So you do the talking — manually reconciling deliverables against programmes, chasing PMIs and TQs across email and chat, copying clash detection findings into status reports, and maintaining a sprawling library of spreadsheets to track what the platforms can't: IRS line items, fire compliance schedules, design responsibility, subcontractor deliverables, action logs. Critical project information ends up scattered across half a dozen tools and an unknown number of personal spreadsheets — none of them connected, all of them out of date the moment they're saved.
Then there's the supply chain. Subcontractor design submissions, RFIs, sample submittals, technical queries, design assist deliverables — all running on their own track, often in their own systems. Closing the loop between what was designed, what got procured, what was approved by the design team, and what was actually built on site requires manually stitching evidence together from quality tools that were never designed to talk to the design coordination workflow.
When the programme changes — and it changes monthly — your Information Required Schedule goes out of date across hundreds of line items. Design deliverables slip. Late deliverables cause site delays. Site delays trigger liquidated damages.
Fire safety has become the defining compliance challenge of UK construction. Every project — not just Higher-Risk Buildings — now demands proper fire strategy coordination, traceable fire-rated product specification, integrated cladding and compartmentation evidence, and an auditable record showing how fire decisions were made and verified. The cost of getting this wrong has been measured in lives, and the regulatory response is structural and permanent.
Meanwhile, your directors are asking for portfolio-wide visibility you can't easily produce. And under the Building Safety Act, the golden thread requires evidence that none of this fell through the cracks — across every tool, every party, and every gateway.
There has to be a better way. We're building it.
Bring design programmes, deliverables, comments, clashes, changes, and subcontractor design submissions into a single intelligent workflow that reasons across the tools your teams already use — programme software, common data environments, BIM coordination, contract administration, quality reporting, and site verification. Orilum is the coordination layer that connects them, not a replacement that asks you to migrate away from them. Because your projects don't run in one vendor's ecosystem, and neither should the coordination layer that connects them.
Building Regulations, Building Safety Act, planning conditions, sector standards, and environmental requirements tracked together. Golden thread compliance across your entire ecosystem — not just within one vendor's platform — because on a real Tier 1 project, evidence lives across common data environments, BIM coordination, contract administration, and quality tools, and the thread has to hold across all of them. Applied to every project, not just Higher-Risk Buildings. Fire strategy, fire compliance schedules, and fire-rated product evidence integrated across the workflow. BR PD and CDM Principal Designer duties tracked, evidenced, and auditable.
Individual competence tracking against PAS 8671 and role-specific requirements. Design Responsibility Matrix allocation that proves who's accountable for what — and that they're qualified to be. Personnel security and clearance tracking for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE work. Security Aspects Letter workflows and supply chain acknowledgements managed end-to-end.
Whole-life carbon, BREEAM, biodiversity net gain, and ESG — environmental accountability linked to the design decisions that drive it, not bolted on at the end. Integrated with your corporate reporting frameworks so project-level data flows into portfolio-level commitments. Material substitutions, design options, and embodied carbon tracked as part of the design workflow — not in a separate spreadsheet.
Portfolio dashboards for directors, regional views for senior managers, project-level depth for design managers. One platform, three altitudes of visibility. Drill from boardroom KPI to deliverable-level evidence without switching systems.
Design coordination doesn't happen in deliverables. It happens in workshops, design reviews, sketches, options analyses, and technical conversations. Today, most of that work is invisible — scattered across Teams chats, lost in email threads, forgotten in unread workshop notes.
Orilum's Studio captures the design development that currently goes unrecorded. Workshops, decisions, options, sketches, technical conversations — structured, searchable, auditable.
When someone asks "why was this decided?", the answer is on the platform.
Your tools connect. Your evidence coheres. Your pillars hold.
Most construction software is built by software people who studied the industry from outside. Orilum is built by someone who's been a Design Manager on hundred-million-pound projects.
25 years in UK construction — five in architectural practice, five in developer-side design and technical, and fifteen in main contracting, most recently in senior design management on hundred-million-pound Tier 1 projects. Every workflow Orilum addresses is one its founder has personally lived through. Every frustration the platform removes is one the founder has personally felt.
Orilum is being built by someone who has done the job the platform serves — not by outside technology entrepreneurs who studied it from the outside.
Hosted entirely on Microsoft Azure UK regions, with data residency held on UK soil. No offshore processing, no overseas data transfer — built for the sovereignty requirements of public-sector and defence-adjacent work.
Three security tiers — Standard, Enhanced, and Dedicated — supporting commercial, government-adjacent, and defence-grade work from day one, with private processing and hard multi-tenancy throughout.
Built to reason across the platforms you already run — common data environments, BIM coordination tools, programme software, contract administration, and quality reporting — because a coordination layer that requires you to abandon your existing stack is not a real coordination layer. Orilum connects your ecosystem. It does not compete with it.
Every action recorded in immutable audit trails backed by cryptographic evidence chains, so the golden thread holds under scrutiny. Designed for ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, and SOC 2 readiness.
Fire strategy, fire-rated product coordination, compliance schedules, and cladding and compartmentation evidence — built directly into the design workflow, not bolted on. Aligned with PAS 9980, BS 9991, and BS 9999.
Coordination, Compliance, Competency, Environment, and Oversight — interconnected by design, not retrofitted. One continuous source of truth running across the entire construction lifecycle.
Orilum is currently in private development. We're having selective early conversations with senior design leaders, design managers, decision-makers, and directors at UK Tier 1 main contractors — and with clients, consultants, and developers who work alongside them. If you've spent too long working around software that doesn't fit how design actually happens — watching fire compliance evidence scatter across email and spreadsheets, or stitching together subcontractor design submissions by hand — we'd like to hear from you.
simon@orilum.co.uk →