About Data Yard
Data Yard is the UK building materials sector’s collective response to a long-standing industry problem.
A platform built to serve the sector’s product data needs for the long term.
Why Data Yard exists - and why it matters now
The industry problem
Product data has long been a challenge across the UK building materials supply chain, with suppliers, merchants, and technology providers often working from multiple spreadsheet, inconsistent formats and varying data completeness.
The result is duplicated effort, manual processes, and errors that slow digital progress.
As customer expectations, regulation, and market demands evolve, high-quality, standardised product data has become essential to enabling efficient digital transformation.
The regulatory context
Following the Grenfell Tower fire, new regulations and industry initiatives have placed greater emphasis on accurate, accessible, and traceable product information throughout the building lifecycle.
Frameworks such as the Building Safety Act, the Golden Thread, and Code for Construction Product Information are driving higher standards of accountability and transparency across the sector.
Data Yard supports this transition by helping the industry build the trusted, structured product data needed for a safer, more compliant, and future-ready built environment.
The industry’s respone
Data Yard was established by the UK building materials sector to address longstanding product data challenges through a shared, industry-led approach.
Developed through collaboration between the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) and the National Merchant Buying Society, the platform is operated by Building Materials Digital Services Ltd.
This ownership model ensures Data Yard remains neutral industry infrastructure - designed to benefit the entire supply chain rather than any individual commercial interest.
Data Yard is live. Suppliers are onboarding. Merchants are accessing data. The Product Data Standardisation Template - developed collaboratively across the industry and maintained by the BMF - is the agreed framework that defines what good product data looks like for this sector.
The platform is powered by Omiteo technology (ETIMIX and PXP), built on ETIM and GS1 standards, and governed by a board that includes industry representation from across the supply chain.
Where are we today?
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