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GBE Members Newsletter No 7 January 2017
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GBE Members Newsletter No 7 January 2017
About:
Hello Members
Happy New Year. Despite 3 highlights during the last 3 months we are glad to see the back of 2016, but we remain hopeful for 2017, and we will all carry on regardless.
Welcome to our latest email newsletter, which contains some social media wizardry at top and bottom.
The top allows you to share this with others and the bottom allow you to see what else we are saying, sharing and doing.
Regards
BrianSpecMan
T 01733 238148
GBE’s reputation is going from strength to strength, having been noticed by 4 awarding bodies.
In the last three months of 2016 GBE received 3 awards and last week we submitted supporting evidence to another, where we had already been nominated.
- Acquisition International Global Excellence Awards 2016Most Outstanding Green Building Information Platform
- Leeds University – Leeds Sustainability Institute RISE Award 2016Behavioural Change Category Award
- Build News Sustainable Building AwardsBest Green Building Information Platform UK Award 2016
- Landscaping & Gardening Awards 2017 Nomination only so far, awaiting awards announcements
Wow 4 in 4 months well that cannot last much longer, can it?
https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/about/gbe-awards-navigation/
GBE has grown from 1456 pages in April 2015, when the new website replaced the old, to 1935 pages today and 13,000 updates getting there.
GBE has developed its own neural network (human brain-like structure) in GBE, all of those pages have been added and they are listed in Navigation pages; listed and linked in all related and relevant pages, so everything should be found without searching. Navigation is still evolving. You can still use the search function, top right of every page.
https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/green-building-encyclopaedia/home-navigation/
GBE hope to start the long awaited Crowd Fund Campaign to build the content more rapidly; we have been thinking about targeting various phases:
- Healthy Building with Building Biology Association,
- Environmental/Bio based Building with CAPEM’s Dutch partner Agrodome and UEA’s ADAPT Associates
- Adaptation/Refurbishment with INSURE Interreg project
- Refurbishment with AECB Carbon Lite Retrofit.
GBE have for a long time been promoting Better Information Management (=BIM). Last year we made a big push to promote GBE Robust Specification, via GBE Solution Provider News email campaign. This year we are running a series on GBE Product Data Collection in order to support the ambitions of Building Information Modeling (BIM). We wish to collect more of the information that is essential for BIM and COBie Product Data Templates to populate the BIM models with essential data for Apps to interrogate. We support BIM4M2’s proposal that high levels of information (LoI) should come before high levels of detail (LoD) i.e. the ‘BInformationM’ attached to low LoD generic models before the expensive high LoD ‘BIModels’.
https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/collaboration/gbe-product-data-collection-collaborate/
GBE is beginning to draw the attention of Manufacturers, Suppliers, Inventors, and Installers.
GBE are in negotiations to convert them into more pages on GBE.
In dedicated following editions of the GBE Members Newsletter we will let you know about some of this work.
The first will be LoftZone’s StoreFloor.
https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/encyclopaedia/products/systems/storefloor/
Sign-up for future newsletters (right column)
https://greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk/blog/news/newsletters/gbe-newsletters-navigation/
Regards
Brian
© GBE NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan
A00 13th January 2017-20th January 2017
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GBE Members Newsletter No 7 January 2017
See Also:
GBE Links
GBE Newsletters
- Solution Provider News No1 October 2015
- Solution Provider News No 2 December 2015
- Solution Provider News No 3 January 2016
- Members Newsletter No1 October 2015
- Members Newsletter No2 December 2015
- Members Newsletter No.3 January 2016
GBE Diary & News
- GBE Navigation pages
- GBE Daily Updates & Additions January,
- GBE Diary 2016 Q1
- GBE Future Events 2016,
- GBE In-House CPD,
- GBE Newsletters,
- GBE Content List,
- GBE 285 Page Groups,
- GBE Site Navigation
GBE Social Media
- Linkedin,
- Twitter: @BrianSpecMan, @GBEGreenBuild,
- facebook,
- Google+,
- Pinterest.
GBE Live
- UK Build Show at NEC
- GBE Newsletter No.1 October 2015
- The Green Register of Construction Professionals (TGR) 15 years celebrations
- CIOB East Midlands Zero Carbon is it possible?
GBE Collaboration
- GBE Tabbed Page templates
- Manufacturer
- Suppliers
- Installer
- Products
- Accessories
- Systems
- GBE Product Data Collection spreadsheet
- GBE Product Pages,
- GBS Robust Specifications,
- GBE BIM Product Data Sheets,
- COBie,
- GBS FMSpec,
- GBE Product Passport, etc.
- GBE Issue Paper Templates
- GBE Overheating Issue Paper
- GBE Pinterest
- GBE Q&A
- GBE CPD
- GBE Media Library
- GBE Issue Paper: Overheating, Update 11
- GBE Issues Navigation: for subjects to be addressed in future Issue Papers
- If you are not sure if your products are being called for here, check out this consolidated list.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Prices: standard, enhanced or premium set up and annual renewal packages & bespoke services.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Options bespoke calculator.
GBE Contact
- BrianSpecMan@icloud.com
- (0044) 01733 238148
- (0044) 07973 281024
- (UK GMT 09:00-18:00)
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
20th January 2016 – 20th January 2017
GBE SP News No N Month 2016 Solution Provider News
GBE SP News No N Month 2016 Template
Solution Provider News
About:
Hello Solution Provider
1+2 Welcome to our new look email newsletter, it contains news and updates regarding Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE) website and the GBE Collaborative Services we offer to promote the essential differences that make your products or services a GBE Problem Solving Solution.
3 At Green Building Encyclopaedia, we’re constantly adding new content to our site, in order to make it more alluring to the search engines and more informative for our many readers. In addition, continue to ‘join everything up’ so that we can provide more value to our users. Here is a quick update for GBE Solution Providers, covering our work during December and January.
Kind Regards
BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
www.greenbuildingencyclopaedia.uk
T 01733 238148
GBE Solution Provider News No N Month 2016
3 Link to previous Newsletters list page
2 Recent Newsletters:
- Solution Provider News No 1 October 2015
- Solution Providers News No 2 December 2015 (this page)
- Members Newsletter No 1 October 2015
- Members Newsletter No 2 November 2015
3 Further development of Manufacturer, Suppliers, page templates (Installers next)
The old style 3 column pages meant a lot of scrolling in some cases so we are replacing it with….
Up to 18 unique tabs at your finger tips: allowing you to choose which tabs to adopt, according to your budget:
| Your company images | Images of company logo, endorsements, accolades, etc. |
| About the company | About your company, contact details and its environmental credentials |
| Incubator | What GBE likes about a company before including |
| COMPASS COMPany Assessment Screening System | Company strengths and improvements |
| Manufacturers Downloads | PDF etc. files: Literature, Certificates, Tests, Method Statements, Specifications, etc. |
| Company Data Sheet | Additional company data |
| Products, Accessories Systems Lists | Linking to complimentary parts Pages |
| Products, Accessories Systems Matrix | Showing which parts are used to make up systems |
| Application Elemental Assemblies | Showing applicable applications |
| Manufacturer, Suppliers, Installers | Linking to complimentary parties’ pages |
| Echo | Confirmation of manufacturer’s self-declaration of environmental claims |
| LCA & EPD | Links to Certificates |
| Maps | Location of company |
| Media Links | Media links to additional information, e.g. video, eBooks, etc. |
3 Further development of tabbed page templates for Products, Accessories and Systems
With up to 30 tabs each containing different information: each company chooses which to adopt to suits its budget
| Images of the subject of the page | Images of company logo, products, labels, literature, etc. |
| About the subject of the page | What is its purpose as a product, accessory or system |
| Incubator | What GBE likes/dislike about a product before including |
| Product Accessory System Screening | Detailed strengths and weaknesses of a product compared with an average product in same group |
| HERACEY® | Is it Healthy, Environmental, Resourceful, Appropriate, Competent, Effective and does it meet GBE Yardstick? |
| Manufacturers Downloads | PDF etc. files: Literature, Certificates, Tests, Method Statements, Specifications, etc. |
| Material/Product/Accessory Data Sheet | Material/Product properties, standards, performance, etc. |
| BIM/CAD Model file | CAD files with or without BIM data |
| BIM Product/Accessory/System Data Sheet | Data including LCA/EPD data if available |
| COBie Spreadsheet | Facilities Management information for BIM models |
| Products/Accessory/System Specification clause(s) | Robust for inclusion in NBS based project specification |
| System/Sub-system Application Data Sheet | Application data, limitations, codes, Agrément certificates |
| Products, Accessories Systems | Linking to complimentary parts Pages |
| Elemental Assemblies | Compatible Assemblies of parts |
| Elemental Sub-Assemblies Specification | Robustly linking the product specifications together |
| Workmanship Specification | Robustly describing the installation requirements |
| Waste Specification | To help with Site Waste Management Plan entries |
| FM Spec in-use maintenance specification | For COBie or FM Operation & Maintenance Manuals |
| End of Life Options | Best practice deconstruction for reclaim and reuse or recycling for a circular economy |
| Product/Accessory/System Passport | Schedules of information on reclaimed materials to enable competent reuse |
| See Also | Links to/from Encyclopaedia’s Jargon Busters, Checklists, etc. |
| Echo | Confirmation of manufacturer’s self-declaration of environmental claim(s) |
| Life Cycle Assessment & Environmental Product Declaration | Links to applicable Certificates for components or products |
| Classify | Assigning CI/SfB, CAWS, Uniclass classification to products for literature identification for Technical Libraries/CAD layering |
| Manufacturer, Suppliers, Installers | Linking to complimentary parties’ pages |
| Finish, colour, pattern, texture swatch | Illustrating options available |
| Links | Media links to additional information, e.g. video, eBooks, etc. |
3 We have also been developing a GBE Product Data Collection spreadsheet to automatically populate schedules for many of the tabbed pages: Product Data Sheets, Application Data Sheet, Product, Accessory, System and Workmanship Specifications, BIM Product Data Sheet, COBie Spreadsheets, FMSpec, Product Passport, SWMP entries, etc.
| GBE Features | GBE Benefits |
| Popular pages reestablished and linked from home page:
Daily Updates & Additions January, Diary 2016 Q1 Future Events 2016, GBE In-House CPD, Newsletters, Content List, 255 Page Groups, Site Navigation |
Easy for users to check what’s been added since their last visit, including new company and product pages, templates, news and a whole lot more. |
| Adding testimonial quotes on navigation pages. | To give users confidence that GBE is competent. |
| Responding to a GBE user’s email questions with more answers in GBE Q&A | Creating links to Company and Product Pages.
Responding allows GBE to find out what users know, how they think and what they need and want. |
| Making pages more user friendly and joined up. | To enhance the user experience of the site. |
2 GBE Website: Features and Benefits
- Reintroduced GBE Daily Update & New Pages, Diary, Future Events: providing easy links into all new, updated pages and relevant events.
- Continuing to develop GBE Navigation pages: Helping users to find their way around
- Building ‘joined-up’ GBE Tabbed page templates for manufacturer, products and accessories, accommodating types of information at users fingertips without scrolling down.
- Developing GBE Product Data Collection spreadsheet to seed the tabbed pages, generating Schedules, for Product Pages, Specifications, BIM, Product Data Sheets, COBie, FMSpec, Product Passport, etc.
- Created GBE Issue Paper Templates with links to Solution Providers: Users find products that solve problems.
- Updated the Overheating Issue Paper to version 11 on website with image of paper and on posts on Social media: Brings LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Facebook contacts to GBE website.
- Posting images in GBE pages onto Pinterest: Clicking the image in Pinterest takes you back to the GBE pages for more information.
- Responding to a GBE User’s email questions with answers in GBE Q&A Responding to requirements allows GBE to find out what Users know, how they think and what they want and need.
- Actively promoting GBE CPD to membership groups, CPD providers and Practices: creating promotional opportunities for GBE website.
- Uploaded 2500 image files to GBE Media Library to start reconnecting and adding to CPD and Specification Files: So there is more content to attract and keep Users on the site.
2 Each page with an picture, logo or image gets the image and a link back to the page posted on Pinterest.
2 Wider promotion:
- Promoting new and relocated Pages and Blog Posts on Linkedin, Twitter: @BrianSpecMan, @GBEGreenBuild, facebook, Google+, Pinterest.
2 Out and about promoting GBE:
- Attended UK Build Show at NEC to meet manufacturers and suppliers. See GBE Newsletter No.1 October 2015 for 10 interesting things I saw there.
- Sign up for future editions with 10 more interesting things.
- Spoke at The Green Register of Construction Professionals (TGR) 15 years celebrations in Bristol & London.
- Spoke at CIOB East Midlands event Zero Carbon is it possible? 1st December
2 Lining up future promotional opportunities: December 2015
- Attending KTN Horizon 2020 meeting to look for more Bio-based project opportunities.
- CAPEM Team meeting in Lille and Loos en Gohelle to determine the future of CAPEM LCA services and Compass LCA Tool.
2 Next actions:
- Started Mailchimp campaigns to get sign up to GBE website and newsletter:
- Architects, Students, Local Authorities, Government Departments, Housing, Membership Groups and CPD Providers, etc.
- Preparing a campaign to magazine and newsletter editors about GBE
3 Link to previous Newsletters list page
2 GBE Solution Providers: (Manufacturers and Suppliers)
GBE would like to hear from you if you solutions Solutions for Overheating Problems and would like them to be exposed to GBE’s user traffic.
- GBE Issue Paper: Overheating, Update 11
- If you are not sure if your products are being called for here, check out this consolidated list.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Options & Prices: standard, enhanced, premium, bespoke & renewal packages.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Options bespoke calculator.
2 Providers of healthy, environmental, resourceful, appropriate, competent, effective solutions, unrelated to overheating, are invited too.
- GBE Issues Navigation: for subjects to be addressed in future Issue Papers
3 Providers of healthy, environmental, resourceful, appropriate, competent, effective solutions are invited to become GBE Solution Providers:
We offer GBE Solution Providers Pages for companies and products and have standard, enhanced and premium pricing bands for ready made complimentary services and bespoke pricing for any preferred combination of services: See the following links for more information and budget calculator
GBE Collaborator Service Band Options & Prices
GBE Collaborator Excel bespoke budget calculator
Talk to BrianSpecMan about becoming a member or advertiser on GBE
To find out more / discuss pricing, either email or call Brian on
+44 (0)1733 238148 / +44 (0)7973 281024 (UK GMT 09:00-18:00)
BrianSpecMan@icloud.com (0044) 01733 238148 (0044) 07973 281024 (UK GMT 09:00-18:00)
Copyright © 2015-16 GBE Green Building Encyclopaedia, All rights reserved.
We have either met face to face and exchanged business cards or emailed each other over the years and I have you in my address book; you may remember me as NGS National Green Specification, GreenSpec or ASWS.
Our mailing address is:
GBE Green Building Encyclopaedia
91 Oakleigh Drive
Orton Longueville
Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire
PE2 7AR
United Kingdom
Want to change how you receive these emails?
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
23rd December 2015 – 16th January 2016
GBE SP News No. N Month 2016
Solution Provider News
See Also:
GBE Links
GBE Newsletters
- Solution Provider News No1 October 2015
- Solution Provider News No 2 December 2015 (this page)
- Members Newsletter No1 October 2015
- Members Newsletter No2 November 2015
GBE Diary & News
- GBE Navigation pages
- GBE Daily Updates & Additions January,
- GBE Diary 2016 Q1
- GBE Future Events 2016,
- GBE In-House CPD,
- GBE Newsletters,
- GBE Content List,
- GBE 255 Page Groups,
- GBE Site Navigation
GBE Collaboration
- GBE Tabbed Page templates
- Manufacturer
- Suppliers
- Installer
- Products
- Accessories
- Systems
- GBE Product Data Collection spreadsheet
- GBE Product Pages,
- GBS Robust Specifications,
- GBE BIM Product Data Sheets,
- COBie,
- GBS FMSpec,
- GBE Product Passport, etc.
- GBE Issue Paper Templates
- GBE Overheating Issue Paper
- GBE Pinterest
- GBE Q&A
- GBE CPD
- GBE Media Library
- GBE Issue Paper: Overheating, Update 11
- GBE Issues Navigation: for subjects to be addressed in future Issue Papers
- If you are not sure if your products are being called for here, check out this consolidated list.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Prices: standard, enhanced or premium set up and annual renewal packages & bespoke services.
- GBE Collaborator Service Band Options bespoke calculator.
GBE Social Media
- Linkedin,
- Twitter: @BrianSpecMan, @GBEGreenBuild,
- facebook,
- Google+,
- Pinterest.
GBE Live
- UK Build Show at NEC
- GBE Newsletter No.1 October 2015
- The Green Register of Construction Professionals (TGR) 15 years celebrations
- CIOB East Midlands Zero Carbon is it possible?
GBE Contact
- BrianSpecMan@icloud.com
- (0044) 01733 238148
- (0044) 07973 281024
- (UK GMT 09:00-18:00)
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
23rd December 2015 – 16th January 2016
