http://denaploymanuals.com Article feed for denaploy manuals. 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. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/qualitydocumentatitionexpectations.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT 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. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/usermanuals.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT 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 http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/largepropertyportfolios.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT 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. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/whatareresidualhazards.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT Denaploy are pleased to announce that we have moved our entire Operations & Maintenance Manuals department into new offices. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/newoffices.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT This page is dedicated to the construction blooper. It might be something as trivial as tripping over a wheelbarrow, to a disaster on a much larger scale. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/constructionbloopers.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT 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 http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/asbuiltdrawingspdfordwg.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT O&M manuals have a terrible reputation. If you mention them to most people in the construction industry you’ll be met by a resigned shrug. They are considered a painful legal necessity and an afterthought to the main job of getting the building project completed. Nobody likes doing them and it requires a completely different skill set to those normally expected of a project manager. http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/bsriaperformance.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT Advice to Project managers - 3 Steps to good quality O&M manuals http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/common_pitfalls_in_preparing_oandm_manuals.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT One of the reasons O&M manuals are so disparaged is that they are never there when you need them! http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/flashdrives.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT If you recommend someone to us that you think may be interested in supplying us with an O&M manual project and they complete a project agreement we will give you one of these great boys toys absolutely free (while stocks last). http://denaploymanuals.co.uk/helicopter.page Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:20:59 GMT