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GBE Literature Audit Collaborate
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GBE Literature Audit Collaborate
About:
Manufacturers and Suppliers Literature
many be divided into a few groups:
- Promotional:
- Glossy, promotional, aspirational and optimistic
- Usually short on facts, lots of pictures
- Promotional Video
- Written by marketeers
- Technical: Facts and figures, diagrams, drawings, photos, explanations,
- Products Technical Literature
- Specifications
- Method Statements,
- Calculators
- CAD/BIM files
- Installation Instructions
- CPD seminars
- Installation Videos
- Website content:
- Web Pages
- PDF document
- Downloadable files
- Third party:
- Product H&S Data sheets, COSHH or CDM data sheets
- Certificates,
- Test reports,
- Accreditations, Endorsements, Accolades,
- LCA and EPD
Information Dissemination
When it comes to product information specification dissemination between manufacturer and specifier there are a number of options to consider:
Manufacturer/Supplier provides Literature with specification information within the text:
- Promotional literature is usually wordy, promotional, optimistic, guidance,
- Written by marketeers and prone to GreenWash
- Specification format should be succinct, detailed, instructional (not guidance)
- Translation from guidance to instruction is prone to interpretation and error
- Specifiers have to read, identify and extract the relevant information to create their specification
- Architects find specification writing a chore they would rather not do (a generalisation)
Product Data Sheets (PDS)
- 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
Product Specifications
Manufacturer/Supplier provides Specification Clauses:
- A major step in the right direction
- They will know their own products, intended purpose and appropriate applications
- They can write the specification from their perspective, to help the specifiers
- Avoids the risk of interpretation by many, by carrying it out once
- There is a risk that this may remain guidance and not instruction
- This may not be robust enough to help prevent substitution
GBE Collaborative Services
GBE Literature Audit
GBE offer to review Literature
- Subdivision of information to separate
- Promotional and Technical
- Theory and Product
- Specification and Method statement
- H&S Data Sheet
- Product Data Sheet
- Identify missing information essential to specification
- Identify the environmental properties that are not being promoted well or at all
- Carryout a GreenWash check and identify inaccurate wording
- Review the quantity and quality of non-text information:
- Diagrams, drawings, charts, tables, photos, cartoons, etc.
GBE Literature Edit
GBE offer to edit, correct, rewrite Literature
- Rationalise the information to enable easy conversion into specifications
- Ensure the content is in the right ‘language’ for specifiers
- 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 suggest appropriate wording
- Ensure the information presented is as robust as possible
- Replace GreenWash and offer better more accurate wording
- Extract the facts from text into tables (or duplicate, with care)
GBE Specification Audit
- Check for consistency with literature, certificates, tests or visa versa
- Check the language and format for consistency with NBS
- Check for missing vital information
- Check for missing environmental information
GBE Specification Edit
- Ensure consistency with literature or visa versa
- Ensure specifications are in the right ‘format and language’ to include in contract specifications
- Ensure specifications are Robust to defend against substitution
- Ensure vital and environmental information is included
- Ensure the reason for choosing it is in the specification
© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
20th March 2013 – 1st November 2020
GBE Literature Audit Collaborate
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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
20th March 2013 – 1st November 2020
GBE Literature Audit Collaborate
See Also:
GBE Literature Audit
GBE Recent customers and completed services
- LoftZone
- LoftZone Website pages
- LoftZone Installation Guide
- LoftZone presence on SpecifiedBy website & 6 case studies (behind login)
- LoftZone StoreFloor CPD seminar
- LoftZone StoreFloor Installation Instructions PDF
- LoftFloor StoreFloor Installation Video
- LoftFloor StoreFloor 3D Views of Assembly
GBE anticipate the items above to be updated following these audits
GBE Literature Edit
- LoftZone StoreFloor
- CPD seminar audited and edited
- LoftZone StoreFloor (CPD) G#14598
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- U values for variable insulation thicknesses and k values
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GBE CPD
- GreenWash
- Verification of manufacturers claims (CPD) G#____ N#408
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GBC Green Building Calculator
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© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1st August 2013 – 1st November 2020