WiredScore certification support for UK connected buildings
IN2 Engineering helps UK developers, landlords and project teams plan, review and document the digital infrastructure needed for a WiredScore certification submission
What is WiredScore?
WiredScore is a global certification for digital connectivity and technology infrastructure in eligible buildings. Founded in London, it is well established in the UK commercial property market and provides a common framework for considering connectivity, provider access, resilience and future capacity.
WiredScore awards the certification. IN2 supports the team with technical review, coordination and evidence preparation. The final outcome remains subject to WiredScore’s assessment.
WiredScore applies to offices, industrial assets and homes, including multi-family residential, student living, build-to-sell and co-living schemes. Portfolio and neighbourhood routes may also apply. Confirm the route, scorecard and current requirements with WiredScore for the asset and location.
When is WiredScore needed?
Bring WiredScore into the brief early, before risers, comms rooms, containment routes, power allowances and access arrangements become fixed. This gives the team room to resolve interfaces between architecture, MEP, ICT, security and telecoms provision.
For buildings under construction before practical completion, or undergoing full redevelopment, WiredScore uses Development scorecards. Occupied scorecards apply to in-use buildings. An occupied assessment needs to consider the installed systems, available records and site conditions as well as the original design intent.
In the UK, the review can sit alongside EPC and TM54 work, net zero carbon investment frameworks, and ESG reporting expected by REITs and institutional investors. These workstreams have different purposes, so the team should define ownership, evidence and programme dependencies clearly.
Planning and statutory design inputs also matter. Building Regulations Part B can affect riser access and fire strategy coordination. Part P is relevant to electrical infrastructure. The detail will depend on the project, building type and jurisdiction, so the design team should test proposed arrangements with the responsible specialists.
What does WiredScore assess?
The current scorecard sets the detailed credits and evidence requirements. As a practical briefing structure, the assessment can address:
- Internet service provision: ability to support high-speed services and provider access.
- Mobile performance: provision for in-building coverage and supporting infrastructure.
- Digital services: occupier or resident-facing services, such as public Wi-Fi, where relevant.
- Infrastructure setup: routes, spaces, capacity and maintainability for technology infrastructure.
- Technology resilience: measures that support continuity through physical, operational and cyber-related disruption.
- Future readiness: capacity to accommodate changing technology and occupier requirements.
- Sustainability technology: technology that supports resource monitoring, management or a more sustainable occupier experience, where relevant.
UK provider diversity is often a key design and operational consideration. Ofcom regulates the communications sector, while providers such as BT Openreach and Virgin Media O2 illustrate the range of network and service-provider interfaces a building may need to accommodate. The appropriate provider strategy depends on location, asset type, commercial arrangements and available networks.
Certification levels
WiredScore certification levels are Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum, with Platinum the highest level. Under Certification describes a project progressing through the scheme. It is not a final certification level.
The applicable scorecard and the evidence accepted by WiredScore determine the result. A target level can inform design decisions, but it is not an achieved result until WiredScore confirms it.
WiredScore and SmartScore are separate products. WiredScore assesses connectivity and technology infrastructure. SmartScore assesses smart-building technology, including access, operational excellence, systems integration, data management, cybersecurity, safety and security, wellbeing, and sustainability technology. Their eligible asset types and criteria differ.
How IN2 helps
IN2 turns the certification objective into coordinated technical actions aligned with the delivery programme.
- Set the brief: confirm the asset type, project stage, intended route, rating ambition and key milestones.
- Review the infrastructure strategy: assess available drawings, specifications and proposals for telecoms, IT and related building infrastructure.
- Identify and prioritise gaps: record missing evidence, design constraints and actions while change remains practical.
- Coordinate inputs and evidence: assign actions across the landlord, design team, providers, specialists and contractor, then prepare the technical material needed for review.
- Support delivery-stage checks: review updated information and keep agreed actions visible during design and construction coordination.
What you receive
Deliverables are agreed to suit the appointment and project stage. They can include:
- a certification strategy and responsibilities matrix;
- a review of available digital infrastructure information against the certification brief;
- a gap analysis with prioritised recommendations;
- drawing, specification and coordination comments;
- an evidence schedule with document owners and outstanding items;
- support with technical responses and submission material; and
- a record of assumptions, exclusions and decisions requiring client or specialist input.
