Production Pulse Newsletter 2021_vol2_iss1

PRODUCTION PULSE

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1 – MARCH 2021

Elimination of Coloured Paper Stock for Construction Contracts

Our current SpecificationWriters Guide (2003) is being updated to align with new processes that will be needed to leverage our specification production software (VisiSpecs). One major change to the guide is the removal of the requirement to use coloured paper stock for printing certain documents in the front end of the Project Manual. Previously, Section 6 of the Guide required items like the Bid Form, Addenda, Table of contents etc. to be printed on yellow/pink/ blue/buff/green paper stock in order to differentiate between Sections. This added time and effort to produce multiple copies of this document. We have contacted the Construction Associations in each of the Provinces we operate in to understand current best practices with respect to Project Manuals. As these documents are now predominantly being issued and distributed in digital form only, there is no need or advantage in discerning one section from another. Production Services

Effective immediately: Project Manuals (Construction Contracts) and addenda are not required to be printed on coloured paper stock, and there is no future need for offices to replenish these paper supplies.

For questions, please contact: Steve Croxford, Professional Services ProductionManager

As we transition from AEthena 1.0 to a new AEthena 2.0 platform, we are faced with some search challenges. Our sites & content is spread across both the old platform and the new platform— creating a search problem: Sharepoint is unable to search across these platforms.

For users, this means searching on AEthena will not surface content hosted on the new platform.. To resolve this issue (until AEthena 2.0 is launched), a page was created on AEthena to help staff find content hosted on the Production Services website. On this page, we created keywords to help direct staff to our new website. Give it a try!