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1. Sipedia:
1. Sipedia is a monopoly construction media corporation for the UK - Sipedia is a dummy name to be used for formation planning purposes.   Sipedia has a business model based on Wikipedia and Facebook that is paid for by voluntary subscriptions and adverts.
2. Sipedia is an online application service that is used by every construction company in the same way as most people use the BBC to get news.   A novel factor is that the language of the UK construction market is multi-national - information is provided in many different languages using Google automatic translation and local editors.
3. Sipedia is used by its customers because that is the most definite source of complete and correct information provided by suppliers.   Suppliers are motivated to provide their information as the most effective marketing platform for their goods and services.
4. Like Linkedin, Sipedia includes a comprehensive listing of every person and organization in the UK construction industry.
5. Sipedia has query (search) facilities like Google, but they have a construction focus based on formal terminology and definitions.
6. The business model is proven in the UK and then replicated to all other countries in all other languages.   The business model is proven in the narrow construction industry then opened out into other industries such as energy and environment.

2. Investors:
1. Investors understand that the target is eight percent annual compound return over nine years as a way to double any investment.
2. The media corporation will not pay dividends until its IPO after nine years.
3. Investors will be rewarded with an opportunity to buy stock that has the potential to become an industry monopoly in any industry.
4. The corporation began in the construction industry because building is technologically backward and fragmented with a vast number of suppliers.

3. Monopoly:
1. Sipedia is a monopoly because its customers want it to be a monopoly as a single source of all shared construction information.
2. Where a supplier chooses to not use Sipedia, then they will spend on marketing that may not reach their intended customers.
3. Where a supplier chooses to provide data sheets, guides, method statements and marketing information to Sipedia, then they know that information will become available to every person in the construction industry.
4. Suppliers may pay for adverts to be associated with key phrases so a construction person wanting steel-to-steel fixing pins has one place to look and one place to get all the relevant facts.
5. Customers get a free of charge service, but may pay for little extras such as sharing information in a supply chain of suppliers and sub-contractors.

4. Recruitment:
1. Recruitment is about sharing a list of every person in the construction industry - Linkedin for builders.
2. When all names and job titles are available, then recruitment is just a matter of preparing a short list of potential people and giving them a call to see if they can be tempted into a new venture.
3. People are motivated to make their details available so they will be considered for new opportunities and companies will be looking for reassurance that the people applying for a job have a suitable background.
4. A large number of people in the construction industry may not have English as their first language, so every opportunity to make this part of the application as multi-cultural as possible in any language the reader chooses.   Sorry the application is not good using a right-to-left language, but we are trying.
5. Recruitment must evolve into a free-of-charge service for both parties, but supplier adverts will popup from time to time to pay for the service.

5. Quotations:
1. Quotations is about sharing a catalogue of prices for every product service in the construction industry.
2. Where a supplier has a "call for price" policy, then clients and quantity surveyors may or may not call.
3. Where a supplier has an open honest and transparent pricing policy, then clients and quantity surveyors can be given an instant quotation.
4. People with a large complex project are looking to get a good handle on costs before making final decisions and that can be dramatically improved with the instant quotation service.
5. Sipedia provides a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) as a set of work packages for every kind of construction project.
6. Each work package measurements can be adjusted to show the resulting cost of labour and materials.
7. The cost of a project is just a matter of adjusting measurements and watching the effect on the overall cost.

6. Vehicles:
1. Vehicle management is about retaining a detailed list of who was responsible for a vehicle at any date and time.
2. A daily vehicle checklist is a required duty for each company.
3. Sipedia application includes vehicle insurance renewal reminders, MOT reminders, vehicle excise tax reminders.
4. Fuel cards provide a great way to manage private and business mileage accounts, but the allocation of mileage costs to specific projects is done using Sipedia.
5. Company vehicles may be treated as a kind of asset contract hire.

7. Contract Hire:
1. Assets are hired as and when required and returned as soon as it is practical.
2. It is not logical for a company to own any assets that can be contract hired as and when needed.
3. Asset ownership involves capital expenditure, asset revaluation, safe storage costs, insurance costs for loss, theft and damage.
4. Assets that are owned by the company still have to be billed to each project so those assets can earn a return on investment - this is like contract hire billing.
5. It is not logical for a business to own and reuse old, inefficient and worn equipment when new more effective equipment can be hired.
6. The role of Sipedia is to make contract hire as easy as possible to source, deliver, collect and pay a modest amount from the best supplier.   The supplier who is open honest and transparent with prices and availability will win more business than the supplier with a "call-for-prices" policy.

8. Operations:
1. Occupational Health and Safety must dominate each and every operational project.
2. DAB: Daily Activity Briefing is required as an activity specific risk assessment for each day people are on-site.
3. DOR: Daily On-Site Register is a list of time sheets with clock-in and clock-out times for each person so the company knows who is on-site any any time.
4. DPC: Daily Pre-Start Checklist is a personal safety check of each work place before any work begins.
5. Permits may be managed when working at height, hot works, lone working, excavations and other hazards that must be supervised.
6. Evidence is recorded for significant project events, deliveries, collections and arrivals.
7. Work package progress is recorded as it happens.
8. Client Sign-Off Sheet for completed work packages may be processed daily, weekly or monthly as applicable.
9. Completed work packages may be invoiced on completion, weekly or monthly as applicable.

9. CIS:
1. CIS accounting is unique to the construction industry and not supported by many accounting packages.
2. CIS registration and accounts can become a liability on a company as 20% or 30% of an agreed project price is paid directly to HMRC by the client.
3. Not all clients understand CIS and they need help to register and make regular monthly returns, even when the return is zero - a missed zero return has a 100 pound fine.
4. HMRC have a vested interest to make CIS each to manage and Sipedia can make it open honest and transparent to all parties - nothing can be hidden.
5. People need a place as Sipedia to reference all CIS payments in and out with monthly and annual summaries.

10. VAT:
1. VAT accounting is unique to the construction industry and not supported by many accounting packages.
2. VAT may be zero-rated when constructing a new dwelling or may be reduced-rate (5%) when converting a property to a dwelling.
3. VAT at reduced or zero rate for part of a supply may be at the same rate for the whole of the supply.
4. HMRC have a vested interest to make VAT easy to manage and Sipedia can make it open honest and transparent to all parties - nothing can be hidden.
5. VAT should be very simple, but the construction industry has ways to add complexity for those trying to do it manually.
6. People need a place as Sipedia to reference all VAT payments in and out with monthly, quarterly and annual summaries.

11. Expenses:
1. Expense accounts can be easy when the business rules are fixed or can be complex with the business has an evolving expense policy.
2. HMRC make it very easy to have an expense policy that complies with standard HMRC recommended allowances.
3. It can become very expensive in financial accounting consultancy fees to try to vary expenses into the world of benefits-in-kind.
4. People need a simple way to record expenses as they happen and just expect that company billing and HMRC annual return is simply automated with nothing to do.
5. People need a place as Sipedia to reference all expense payments in and out with monthly and annual summaries.

12. Annual Return:
1. Every person and every company need a place as Sipedia to bring together all financial transactions into their annual return.
2. Sipedia make it very easy to view revenue, payments and expenses with CIS and VAT as applicable.
3. The annual return is the sum of twelve independent monthly returns, so trends and seasonal changes can be monitored.

13. Security:
1. Construction companies understand that the majority of paper documents do not comply with UK laws like data protection, business continuity and risk management.
2. Company Directors have a duty of care to provide application tools to people that are safe, secure, private and easy to use with any kind of smart phone.
3. Business continuity cannot be provided with paper documents that may be lost, stolen or destroyed in a moment without any kind of backup or fallback.
4. Privacy cannot be provided when nobody knows who and when a document was read or photographed - people know that such methods of working are not-fit-for-purpose.

14. Diary:
1. Sipedia has the ability to present information to people using a diary - week-to-view, month-to-view or year-to-view.
2. Construction information that is based on dates when things happened or when things are due to happen can best be viewed in a diary.
3. A unique diary is provided for each person, each client, each supplier and each project showing information as:
  (1). Daily Activity Briefing
  (2). Daily On-Site Register
  (3). Daily Time Sheet and HAV Record
  (4). Daily Pre-Start Checklist
  (5). Daily Vehicle Checklist
  (6). Daily Expense Form
  (7). Daily Evidence List with photos
(10). Site - as any work place
  (11). Site Accident and Emergency Plan - accident and incident record
  (12). Site Task and Event Diary
  (13). Site Inspection Checklist
  (14). Site Induction Training
  (15). Site Minutes of Meeting
  (16). Site Asset List - Equipment, Supplies, Consumables, Tools
  (17). Site Asset Inspection - PUWER, LOLER, PAT, etc..
  (18). Site Toolbox Talk Register
  (19). Site Contract Hire Management
(20). Project - as any contract, quotation, invoice, payment
  (21). Project Initiation Information
  (22). Project Work Breakdown Structure
  (23). Project Quotation and Contract
  (24). Project Work Package Progress - Client Sign-Off Sheet
  (25). Project Invoice and Payment Plan
  (26). Project Account of income and outgoing
  (27). Project Non-Conformance Report - snagging list
  (28). Project Corrective Action Plan
  (29). Project Risk Assessment and Method Statement
(30). Personal - as any sub-contractor or employee
  (31). Personal Task and Event Diary
  (32). Personal Time Sheet Summary
  (33). Personal Invoice-Payment Statement
  (34). Personal VAT Return
  (35). Personal Annual Return
(40). Company - as any client or supplier (contractor)
  (41). Company Task and Event Diary
  (42). Company Regular Payment Schedule
  (43). Company Asset Valuation
  (44). Company CIS Return
  (45). Company VAT Return
  (46). Company Annual Return
(50). Document - as any Policy or Procedure
  (51). Health and Safety Policy
  (52). Environment and Energy Policy
  (53). Work Breakdown Structure register
  (54). Risk and Control Measure register
  (55). Asset and Insurance Policy
  (56). Data Privacy, Business Continuity and Security Policy
(60). International Standards - compliance is by default
  (61). ISO 19650 Building Information Modelling (BIM).
  (62). ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard (QMS).
  (63). ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Standard (OHS).
  (64). ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard (RMS).
  (65). ISO 55001 Asset Management Standard (AMS).
  (66). ISO 14001 Environmental Management Standard (EMS).
    (661). ISO 55001 Energy Management Standard (EnMS).
  (67). ISO 20001 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).
    (671). ISO 27001 Information Security Standard (ISS).
    (672). ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard (BCS).
    (673). General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
    (674). Privacy of Electronic Communication Regulations (PECR).

21. Revenue Plan:
1. Revenue is from voluntary subscriptions, adverts and commissions - to focus on any one source of revenue may be to loose focus on other income.   The key characteristic is that the application is free of charge to its customers so Sipedia customer base can explode without limit.
2. For the first nine years, investors will not see a return on their investment other than the value of their stock will increase by at least eight percent each year leading to an IPO.
3. Suppliers will contribute to have their products and services recommended and promoted with increased sales.
4. Customers will contribute to have their project priced in an effective, efficient and trust worthy way.
5. Contractors will contribute to have access to all their accounting, billing and expenses information.
6. People can self-register and start using the application without any contracts - permission is avoided.

22. Competitor Analysis:
1. Google provides simple search access to supplier web sites where many suppliers have adopted a "phone for a price" approach to they may adjust prices to match what the customer can afford.
2. Gumtree provides a simple search facility for supplier product services and contractors, but in the context of selling goods.
3. Ebay provides a simple search facility for supplier products, but it would be hard to find prices for ten cubic meters of C45 concrete to be delivered in Oxford.
4. Amazon provides a simple search facility for supplier products, but it would be hard to find prices for a six meter UB 205 mm steel beam to be delivered in Cambridge.
5. HSS have a good web site that includes policy and method documents that may be downloaded for a few pounds - downloaded documents are in a 20 year old propriatory file format that will need to be reviewed and revised to match local needs.
6. BSI have a good web site that sells documents for International Standards for many hundreds of pounds - valuable education but not operational.   BS and ISO copyright means these documents cannot be made available to the public, but original documents derived from these standards may be shared for the benefit of all parties.
7. Trade associations exist for the benefit of its private members and not for the benefit of all people in the construction industry - membership has a cost and a benefit for a few.
8. The construction industry may not yet have a single point of reference for all documents, advice, methods, prices, projects and people.

Document Control.
1. Document Title: Sipedia.
2. Description: Sipedia, policies and guidelines.
3. Keywords: Sipedia, policies and guidelines.
4. Privacy: Shared with approved people for the benefit of humanity.
5. Edition: 1.1.
6. Issued: 17 Jan 2019.