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Essential CPD information for the construction industry

By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Utilise administration tools to ensure office wide functionality and performance, helping to maintain a standard layout of documents created within the software.
- Retrospectively apply document permissions, ensuring that as the project grows, so do the team who can work on the specification.
- Understand office standards and the recommended steps in their creation.
- Use updating tools to enable safe reuse of project specifications.
- Discuss good practice in using NBS Specification writing software.

This seminar looks at:

- Sources and applications of digital ordnance survey mapping
- Sources of enviromental data including case studies
- Sources of planning data
- Historical mapping
- Aerial photography

On completion of the course you will be confident that you can:
- Recognise and understand the structure of work sections which is based upon the Common Arrangement Work Sections (CAWS).
- Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus.
- Supplement existing NBS Guidance with your own office knowledge.
- Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification, saving time in the specification writing process and ensuring consistency. Format and print the specification.
- Print specialist reports.
- Define user access to specifications and preliminaries.
- Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process.

This seminar is for NBS Scheduler users who wish to prepare schedules of work for smaller scale new build or refurbishment projects where a bill of quantities is not required:
– write schedules of work using the NBS Libraries or based on a NBS Template or previous schedule
– edit your schedule to be project specific by adding or removing NBS properties, work items and constructions
– create user-defined constructions, work items and properties
– format and print the finished document
– attach trades to work items and produce a trade report
– write, format and print your prelims