A31 Provision, Content and Use of Documents
Checklist:
Problem:
- We generate many drawings with vast amounts of blank space and every time we revise, add information or update them we generate yet more paper copies.
- Offgassing from PVC ring binders
- Badly or unco-ordinated sets of documents
Solution:
- Provide as many documents as possible in electronic format so the recipient decides whether they read them on screen or print them
- Provide 3D Model files and let the contractor decide where to generate a section and print their own drawings
- Deliver documents via a Web server with electronic document management
- Set out document with narrow margins, to reduce the number of pages
- Print specifications double sided,
- Don’t shrink the font size, it must still be readable
Consider:
- Paper or cardboard based ring binders
Avoid:
- Issuing paper prints of all documents
- Filing in PVC sheathed ring binders (risk of offgassing into filing room, library or archive)
Minimise:
Substitute:
Resource Efficiency:
Reduce:
Reclaim:
Reuse:
Recycle:
Recycling:
- Collect, segregate, reuse and recycle all redundant paper.
- Purchase recycled paper or you are not recycling, only segregating for recycling.
Recover:
Waste Issues:
Waste Category:
Hazardous waste:
Waste statistics:
End of life options:
Health and Safety Issues:
Wellbeing:
- Avoid paper cuts on hands use soft copy in place of hard copy
Maintenance issue:
Precautionary principle:
Biodiversity:
- Avoid cutting down rain forest to make paper,
- use FSC, UKWAS or Grown In Britain certified plantation tree based paper
- use recycled paper
Information sources:
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
6th December 2014 – 14th November 2018
A31 Provision, Content and Use of Documents
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
6th December 2014 – 14th November 2018
A31 Provision, Content and Use of Documents
See Also:
NGS CPD
NGS JARGON BUSTER
Initials, Abbreviations, Acronyms
- FSC
- GiB
- PEFC
- UKWAS
Names and phrases
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
- Grown in Britain (GiB)
- (PEFC)
- United Kingdon Wood _______ (UKWAS)
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NGS SPECIFICATIONS
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NGS LIBRARY
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6th December 2014 – 14th November 2018
