A11 Tender and Contract 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.
- Quantity Surveyors think the thickness of the set of documents will dictate the price of the tender
- Offgassing from PVC ring binders
- Badly or uncoordinated 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
- Tender using CD or Web servers.
- 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
- Don’t shy away from telling the whole story in the tender documents, it gives the tendered the confidence that you know your building well, you have explored all the details, there is a true reflection of the requirements, an accurate price can be provided, with the confidence there are no surprises to build in safety margins for.
Consider:
- Paper or cardboard based ring binders
Avoid:
- Tendering using 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
4th December 2014 – 16th November 2018
A11 Tender and Contract Documents
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4th December 2014 – 16th November 2018
A11 Tender and Contract Documents
See Also:
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NGS JARGON BUSTER
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- GiB
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- UKWAS
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- (PEFC)
- United Kingdom Wood _______ (UKWAS)
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