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  • What are O&M Manuals?

    When any significant building work is undertaken, either as a NewBuild, a Cat A refit (of the basic structure) or a Cat B refit (tenants fittings), it is a legal requirement in the UK that an O&M (Operations and Maintenance) manual be provided as part of the Health & Safety documentation for the building.

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  • Home User Guides

    It is not only the O&M manuals that are going digital. It is the user guides for apartments too. The requirements of companies such as Paradigm are increasingly to provide detailed bespoke manuals for each apartment.

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  • Regulation 38 and the 'Golden Thread'

    Regulation 38 what is it? And what does this means for the future of fire safety and preserving the Golden Thread' of information?

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  • RiDR

    Rapid intelligent Data Retrieval A bespoke search and retrieval system that enables rapid access to all the information collected across multiple O&M manuals. Our objective is to increase the value of these documents beyond Handover.

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  • O&M manuals for clients with large property portfolios

    Clients with large property portfolios are increasingly determined to take control of the documentation relating to their properties and store them in data base silos with a common access and structure

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  • Building Long-Term Relationships

    Find out about the benefits of our Framework Agreements

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  • What are residual hazards?

    Since CDM 2007 there has been an increasing emphasis on providing a residual risks section in the health and safety Manual. Some sub-contractors find this particularly confusing because of the apparent similarity with the risk assessment that they are required to make before they start work.

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  • New building regulations will be in effect from 15th June 2023

    New Building Regulations require documentary proof that the build quality conforms to the build plan. Photos during the build and increased certification.

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  • What Makes a Good O&M Manual?

    Our objective is not to create great literature – many manuals are longer than War & Peace. Our aim is to capture large amounts of detail so that any of the wide variety of future users can find what they need whether it be the details of a floor tile that needs replacing following an accident with some inks, or a major overhaul of the Air conditioning.

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  • Why should you spend on a professional O&M Manual?

    Is it worth the cost? It's a no-brainer justifying our O&M services.

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  • The Future Homes Standard 2025

    The new Future Homes Standard being introduced will require significant additional information to be collected and documented to pass Building Regulations.

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  • Information that we need to start creating your Project Manuals

    A quick reference for Project Managers of the information that we need from you to start our work

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  • End of Project Checklist

    End of Project check list Having put together all the O&M information from all the subcontractors, there are several areas that need to be cross-checked, especially for the inclusion in the H&S file.

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  • About Us

    In 2019 we celebrated our thirtieth year in business, Denaploy are arguably the Construction Industry’s leading provider of digital O&M documentation.

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  • The Expectations of Quality in Documentation are Increasing

    Talk to any old time project managers about O&M manuals and you get the same response; a box ticking exercise in which it is only by the most extreme luck that you will find anything useful when you need it. As we move into the digital world everybody has much higher expectations.

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  • Thinking about printing O&M manuals

    Modern O&M manuals are created as digital documents replete with hyper links, search tools and the type of navigation structures that we have become used to when browsing the internet. Denaploy is one of the leaders in this trend and as a consequence has documented approaching £1bn of construction projects for some of the most demanding customers in the industry.

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  • As built drawings PDF or DWG?

    The final As Built drawings have always been a critical part of an O&M Manual, and it has always been clear that these need to be the final version of the drawings

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  • Digital Home User Guides

    People have a right to expect good quality documentation explaining how to use and maintain their property and the old way of throwing a few bits of product literature into a file is no longer acceptable.

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  • BREEAM

    BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method)

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  • What is a CIBSE TM31 Logbook?

    Log books provide a simple, easily accessible summary of a new or refurbished building rather than the detail contained in O & M manuals.

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  • Construction Bloopers

    This page is dedicated to the construction blooper. It's just a bit of fun and not to be taken too seriously

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