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Manufacturers produce a significant part of the information required to bring about a safer construction industry; but this information is currently not structured or shared in a consistent way. Read about the project to produce a Plain Language Guide to Product Data for Manufacturers and how you can get involved.

If industry is to meet the challenges of a digital future, avoid a race to the bottom and respond to the requirements of a new building safety regulatory system, we need manufacturers to structure and share their data safely.

This IET project is producing a Plain Language Guide to Product Data for Manufacturers in the UK and Europe.

The guide aims to help decision makers in manufacturing identify:




  • Why structured data is important.




  • How to avoid poor investment decisions.



  • How to protect their future with a step by step process to set priorities and implement information management across the supply chain for their products.

​​This project is supported by the UK BIM Alliance, IBM and BEAMA.
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To encourage manufacturers to share their needs and discuss the topics, the editorial team, consisting of Su Butcher, Rick Hartwig, Patricia Massey and Paul Surin, are producing




  • a series of blog posts investigating the issues, published fortnightly commencing on Friday 4th September 2020, and




  • an interactive zoom group call to discuss each article, commencing Friday 11th September 2020. Each blog post will include a registration link to join the follow up call a week later.




  • the zoom calls will be recorded and made available afterwards. Each is available at the bottom of the blog post.



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