GBE Product Data Collection (Collaborate)

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When it comes to specification information dissemination between manufacturer and specifier there are a number of options to consider:

• Promotional Literature which is often wordy, full of optimistic marketing and recommendation rather than instruction and needs heavy editing by the specifier.
  • See GBE LitAudit Literature Audit
• Technical Literature which will be a step closer to the requirements of the specifier, but may be in a PDF file that when and if permitted, copied from may carry format settings and history making editing necessary, often problematic and full of risks
• Readymade Specification templates with editing notes
  • GBE Robust Specification clauses
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  • GBE Robust Specification Work section

GBE Product Data Collection Sheet strips out all of the opimistic marketing and reduce the facts to the essessence: property, value and standards, but its ambitions are to:

• fill the tabbed pages of the new GBE Tabbed Product Pages including:
  • Specifications: Product, System, Waste, Workmanship,
  • BIM Product Data Sheet,
  • COBie spreadsheet,
  • FMSpec
  • SWMP
  • End Of Life and Product Passport
  • and many more
• feed a database and Big Open Data
• be printed as a database output

Its multicolumn format may make editing into specifications a little risky.

GBE Robust Specification Work section: A readymade template Specifications that are the ideal solution for specifiers;

• adopting elemental approach to specification
• with assembly and component specifications
• all the reasons for choosing the product are included
• format is suitable for editing straight into project specifications
  • NBS or NGS formats

GBE Collaborative Services Options and Costs

Audit:

When it comes to product information specification dissemination between manufacturer and specifier there are a number of otions to consider:

Manufacturer/Supplier provides LITERATURE with specification information within the text:

• A major step in the right direction
• Often issued as PDF files (to prevent corruption of the information)
• Specifiers will want to extract the information to paste into word processing
• Copy and paste can lead to format changes and corruption of the information
• Correcting the format, proof reading and correcting is time consuming and prone to error
• Specifications are more than just product data and more work is needed by the specifier

Manufacturer/Supplier provides SPECIFICATION CLAUSES

GBE Product Data Sheet

GBE offer to review manufacturer’s literature to help with

• Subdivision of information to seperate out Product Data Sheet content
• Identify missing information essential to specification
• Rationalise the information to enable easy conversion into specifications
• Ensure the content is in the right ‘voice’ for specifiers (instruction rather than guidance)
• Ensure any ‘jargon’ is explained, for the avoidance of doubt
• Simplify to ensure use of plain English
• Encourage promotion of important or unique properties and suggets appropriate wording
• Ensure the information presented is as robust as possible
• Identify the environmental properties that are not being promoted well or at all
• Carryout a GreenWash check and offer better more accurate wording
• Extract the facts from text into Product Data Collection Sheets
• Automatically populate many schedules

© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1st March 2013 – 23rd October 2021

Images:

GBC Manufacturer Supplier Request V2 Product Data Template A15 BRM 300920 PNG

See Also:

GBC Product Data Collection (Collaborate) G#40086 End.