An industry-wide shift to digital construction records could hold the key to rebuilding the credibility lost amid the cladding catastrophe, high-profile pundits suggest.

The limitations of paper construction records have been further illuminated during the cladding crisis, with authorities left scrambling to determine which major buildings across the country posed a flammable risk.

A big part of the problem was the fact that records were paper-based, and stored by various stakeholders, rather than in one central place.