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GBE Product Data Sheet
GBE Product Data Sheet (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
- this is a half way house between nothing and
- GBE Robust Specification Work section
- GBE Robust Specification clauses
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
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
1st March 2013 – 31st August 2016
GBE Product Data Sheet (Collaborate)
Audit:
LITERATURE many be divided into a few groups:
- Promotional: Glossy, promotional, aspirational and optimistic
- Usually short on facts, lots of pictures
- Technical: Facts and figures, diagrams, drawings, photos, explanations,
- Product Data Sheets
- Specifications
- Method statements,
- Calculators
- CAD/BIM files
- 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
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
20th March 2013 – 23rd December 2015
GBE Product Data Sheet (Collaborate)
See Also:
GBE Collaborate
GBE Product Data Collection
- GBE Product Data Collection G#
- GBE Product Data Sheet G#543 N#563
- Product Data Templates (PDT) G#8097
- Communicating Product Data BIM4M2 G#11309
- Product Method Statement (Template) G#14276
- Collaborator Service Band Scope & Prices G#2168
- Collaborator Service Bespoke budget calculator G#3288
- Collaboration Service Comparison G#12389
- Members Newsletter No 3 January 2016 G#9384
- Solution Provider News No 3 January 2016 G#9293 G#9293
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- CAP’EM Product Data Sheet
© GBE NGS ASWS BrianSpecMan aka Brian Murphy
1st March 2013 – 9th January 2017