The GRC platform built to help construction and housing teams deliver more with less risk
Manage governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) that keeps construction projects compliant, safe, and on track.
Construction and housing teams are under pressure from every angle
On paper, governance looks tidy. On site, it rarely is.
You are juggling safety, quality, cost, schedule, subcontractors, and constant change. Decisions get questioned months later. Evidence gets requested long after the moment has passed. And when something goes wrong, “we did our best” does not hold up. What matters is what you can prove.
That’s why construction and housing teams need GRC that runs alongside live delivery, not a once-a-quarter reporting exercise.
“There are plenty of expensive and complex risk software offerings out there, but we wanted a product that was simple to use and intuitive. We quickly appreciated that the CoreStream GRC product was for us and, importantly, one with the potential and flexibility for our users to grow with”
Ian Ross, Group Head of Audit and Assurance at Morgan Sindall
“If we can do it all in one place—here is our gifts and hospitality register, here is our staff qualifications register—that is what we are looking for.
Build it once and use it across the organization. Colleagues know for incidents, processes, and more, the place I need to go to is CoreStream GRC.”
Darren Butler, Head of ICT, Horton Housing
If your site’s risk process still lives in spreadsheets, you already know the problem
Most construction and housing teams are trying to manage serious risk with legacy tools that were never designed for it:
- Spreadsheets, shared drives, email chains and version control chaos
- Project-by-project silos with no consistent view across regions or business units
- Manual reporting for boards, audits, and regulators
- Weak line of sight from project risk to enterprise risk
- “Ownership” assignments that exists in theory but cracks under pressure
- At that point, GRC becomes admin. It stops being decision support.
Bottom line: generic GRC tools were not built for construction.
In action: Moving Morgan Sindall from spreadsheets to a scalable, dynamic risk management system
Morgan Sindall had outgrown an Excel-based risk process and needed a centralized, easy-to-use solution that would scale across divisions without disrupting operations.
They moved to CoreStream GRC and saw immediate results:
- Centralized tracking and reporting with real-time access to risk data
- Less manual chasing, formatting, and version control
- Faster, easier risk reporting for committees and stakeholders
CoreStream GRC for construction and housing
CoreStream GRC is a flexible, no-code platform that you shape to fit how your teams actually work, including your terminology, your structures, and your reporting rhythms.
That matters in construction because the operating model is never “one size fits all.” Your projects, regions, and contractors do not behave like a single neat process. Your GRC platform still has to.
What you can run in one connected system
- Project and enterprise risk in parallel
Run two distinct but connected processes side-by-side, so project delivery risk does not get lost in the enterprise view.
- Risk registers that stay live
Move away from once-a-year risk updates and treat risk as a living discipline that is used daily, with real engagement from leadership.
- Actions and controls that actually stick
Link risks to controls and mitigation actions, so ownership is real and follow-through is visible, not buried in email threads
- Audit trails you can defend
Capture decisions, evidence, and changes so you can answer hard questions later without a scramble including conflicts of interest and gifts & hospitality.
- Real-time reporting that replaces manual committee packs
Stop losing days to report prep. Dashboards and packs can be generated quickly, with drill-down when leadership asks “why.”
- Configurable workflows, without heavy IT projects
CoreStream GRC is practitioner-led by design, and repeatedly described as configurable like “Lego bricks” so you can align the system to your framework instead of bending your framework around the tool.
- Health and safety dedicated solution – 360° visibility into safety risks, harness powerful insights to spot trends, take swift corrective action, and implement proactive measures before risks escalate.
Why construction and housing organizations choose CoreStream GRC
Because it reflects how work actually happens in their environment environment:
- Built for high-scrutiny delivery, where decisions are revisited and evidence matters
- Flexible, no-code configuration, so you can match your operating model instead of forcing change for the software
- Intuitive user experience, including for non-specialists who do not live in GRC tools all day
- A single source of truth, so reporting is faster and accountability is clearer
- Responsive partnership, with clients repeatedly calling out service quality and implementation support
Book a construction-focused GRC workshop
If you want to pressure-test your current approach with experts who have worked with Morgan Sindall, Horton Housing and many more.
In a 60-minute workshop, we will:
- Map where risk and governance break under delivery pressure
- Identify what you need to evidence and who needs to own it
- Show practical ways to reduce manual reporting and close gaps
Give recommendations grounded in real implementations
“There are plenty of expensive and complex risk software offerings out there but we wanted a product that was simple to use and intuitive. We quickly appreciated that the CoreStream GRC product was for us and, importantly, one with the potential and flexibility for our users to grow with.
Added to this has been CoreStream GRC’s service that, from enquiry to implementation, has been faultless.”
Ian Ross
Head of Audit & Assurance
“The BBC and its Partners have awarded contracts to CoreStream GRC through competitive procurement processes. I have recommended CoreStream GRC repeatedly as the company provides reliable, robust, intuitive software which has met the BBC information security, data and risk controls.
CoreStream GRC has been central to us securing and retaining audience trust and the business partnership we share is first class.“
Claire McLaughlin
Head of Interactive Technology
“The CoreStream GRC system provides us with an amazing single source of the truth, not only for what needs doing but also for what’s been done: it evidences it, which was always a problem in the past. By recording everything in one place, we can see all obligations, manipulate them and report on them.
My mantra is: if in doubt, get it into CoreStream GRC. You can never have too much information.”
Andy Indominus
Engineering Director
“CoreStream GRC gives us the entire picture, we know where to focus now, this is helping prioritize and future plan.
Sophie’s [account manager] been really, really good. She understands our pain points, our volumes, and why we need something different. We’ve built a solution that works for us, but it’s transferable, not bespoke. That makes it more powerful for everyone.”
Marc Wilson
Head of Information Security & Data Protection Officer
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See how our solution delivers measurable impact and real-world results for construction and housing organizations.
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FAQs for GRC in housing and construction
Because construction risk is live, distributed, and constantly changing. Tools built for static compliance struggle with project delivery reality, especially when evidence, accountability, and audit trails matter long after the project phase has passed.
You stop rebuilding the same reports repeatedly. You get consistent registers, clear ownership, and real-time reporting that reduces manual effort and error risk. That shift is exactly what construction clients like Morgan Sindall implemented.
It should do the opposite. The goal is less chasing, fewer manual workarounds, and faster visibility so governance supports decisions instead of delaying them.
Yes. The platform is repeatedly described as configurable like “Lego bricks,” meaning you can build around your frameworks and workflows without the rigidity common in traditional platforms.