A quiet place for the work of a practice.

Practice software for architects. The jobs, the day’s notes, the letters and the materials, kept plainly, in one place, with nothing in the way of the work.

At the end of a day, a few lines for each job you touched. Nolliworks reads them straight back, and offers what was worth keeping, what might be outside the brief and what is worth watching. One tap puts each on the job’s record.

Nothing is filled in twice. Course on course, the record is laid as the work is done.

Letters, emails, the minutes of a meeting: they arrive as rain does, a little at a time. Nolliworks reads each one. What it suggests waits in the job’s inbox, still as water in a basin, beside the words it came from.

Nothing reaches the record until someone has looked, and confirmed it, changed it, or let it go.

A question, asked quietly, the way you would ask someone who was there. The answer comes from the job’s own record, every sentence resting on something you can follow back to its reasons.

What you asked stays here, on your screen, and nowhere else.

Sun through the gaps in the boards, and in it, the dust you could not see.

Someone on the job notices what could cost it time, money or quality, and flags it. The practice watches it, with a playbook for what to do, until someone closes it.

A practice keeps its models: the jobs gone before, on the shelf, a little dust on them. Nolliworks sets this job beside the ones that came through the same stage, names each and how it ended, and shows what most of them had by this point that this one has not.

Files on shelves of pressed wood strands: kraft, grey and black, and one red the sun has faded. A gap where one is out.

Nolliworks keeps each job’s drawings and documents in folders, and folders can hold folders. Every drawing and document has a status. See the list as a tree, a board or a table, or grouped by kind.

Drawings lie flat on a long birch table, lead weights on the corners that want to curl. Plan, section, elevation: three views of one building, and each must agree with the others.

Nolliworks’ plan views agree for the same reason: each is worked out from the job’s one record, so nothing is entered twice. Plan › Today shows what is ready, what is in the way, and the smallest next steps; others show the same job as a flow, a timeline and a history.

Birch-plywood pigeonholes, a sample on a tray in most: the cold of slate, the weight of brick, a pane of glass with its green edge. One tray is out on the counter, and on it lies a wall cut through: brick, insulation, block, plaster.

Nolliworks’ library holds 122 materials, each with its figures, the builder’s view and a 3D specimen to turn in the hand. Choose a wall, roof or floor and its finishes and see it as a 3D section, with its U-value, a moisture check and its carbon. A practice keeps its own build-ups in families of variants, each with the projects it was used on.

Fir shelves against clay, and the light crossing them. The Approved Documents in a thin run, A to T; the handbooks; a file marked Building Control. Lower down, a small white model, left on a book.

A practice keeps what it knows on shelves like these. In Nolliworks it keeps its own manual, as wiki pages, and its policies as controlled pages with issued versions. A job can be marked as a higher-risk building under the Building Safety Act 2022; that puts it on the act’s route: the gateways, the dutyholders, the golden thread.

In the studio, the day goes up on the soft board, row by row as it was taken: the wall and its opening, the scaffold, the trench, the roof going on. Trace over the plan, held with tape.

On site, Nolliworks puts three big buttons on the phone: Photo, Record and Note. A photo can carry the practice’s own tags. Everything is kept on the phone first, and sent in the order it was captured, once there is signal. Once the visit is finished, it is there to write up in the day book.

The year on a plaster wall, a month to a row. The light crosses it slowly; where people will be away, soft bars of colour.

Nolliworks keeps a list of the practice’s employees and each person’s holiday entitlement. Leave is booked and approved in Nolliworks, and everyone’s leave is on one calendar.