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the UK

Document control on the UK construction

How information is named, issued, and proved to have been issued.

5 authorities, 2 statutory, 3 free to read.

StatutoryFree to readas amended

Companies Act 2006, Part 41 (business names), sections 1200 to 1206, and section 82 (trading disclosures)

UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)

use of business namesdisclosure of proprietors' names and an address for servicedocuments on which disclosure must appearoffences for non-disclosure

Catches almost every solo contractor trading under anything other than their own personal name. One missing line on the invoice is both an offence and a defence the customer can raise to stall enforcement of the debt.

StatutoryFree to readas amended

Company, Limited Liability Partnership and Business (Names and Trading Disclosures) Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/17), Part 6

UK Parliament (legislation.gov.uk)

company particulars on business letters, order forms and websitesdisplay of the registered name at business premisesoffences and daily default fines

Quotations and order forms are caught as well as invoices, which is why the domestic quotation template carries the same identity block as the invoice. The requirement applies to the registered name even when the contractor trades under a different one.

De facto standardPaywalledUK National Annex revised 2021

BS EN ISO 19650-1 and -2 with the UK National Annex (2021 revision), and BS EN ISO 19650-3, -4 and -5

BSI, with free guidance from the UK BIM Framework

information container namingsuitability and revision codescommon data environment workflowEIR, BEP and MIDPlevel of information need

This is the largest single gap for GB document control and BIM. The naming convention is the most visible marker of whether a document set was produced by someone who works in this market.

De facto standardFree to read

Uniclass 2015

NBS

classificationinformation structuring

The UK equivalent axis to MasterFormat/UniFormat. Free, which makes it a realistic full-ingestion candidate.

The rest of the the UK register

The register tells you what. The back office does it.

AEC Stack carries the registrations, the insurance certificates, the payment notices and their deadlines, and the documents a buyer wants before they let you start. Across Canada, built deepest for Ontario.

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