This is the third of three posts looking at publishing information from NBS so that it can be used by the wider project team. The first of these posts looked at exporting to Microsoft Word to improve the aesthetics of the published output, the second post looked at exporting to the open data format COBie.
This post looks a little more to the future where the specification can be published to a secure website where the wider project team can view the information from the context of the 3D model.
The traditional method of publishing a specification is to print it out or export to PDF format and send to the project team. A hard copy/PDF record is clearly required (and still will be required) contractually – but problems can arise if multiple copies of this are distributed around the project team and as the specification is intended to be viewed from the context of the design – it means that there is a lot of navigation required to find what is needed. Figure 1 illustrates this.
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