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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

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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

GBE Calculator Audit

• LoftZone StoreFloor calculator
• U values for uninsulated roof, insulated in ceiling joist zone only, with top-up insulation
• U value with all insulation squashed by decking boards and belongings on deck
• U value with timber framed supports
• U value with timber joist supports
• U value with LoftZone StoreFloor cross ventilation and decking
• U values for variable insulation thicknesses and k values
• U value modification factors for thermal bridging through supports
• U value modification factors for thermal bypass through gaps in wrong width insulation

GBE CPD

• GreenWash
• Verification of manufacturers claims (CPD) G#____ N#408

GBE Jargon Buster

GBE Greenwash

GBC Green Building Calculator

• Attic Raised Storage Deck included in Flat Ceiling Elemental Assembly
• LoftZone StoreFloor can be included in calculations

© GBE GBC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan **
1st August 2013 – 1st November 2020

GBE Literature Audit (Collaborate) G#738 N#760 End