Here we are once again, back for the diary entry of the week. Following on from last week’s update, you’ll be aware that I was in London doing a solo run of visiting and photographing sites. Well, this week I’ve been working with the information I gathered to finish up and complete some packs. It’s been going quite well and, thanks to visiting the sites, I could implement some changes into the initial designs that will save us a decent amount of time and money when it comes t

Hello all! How are we today? All good I hope. Now then what has been happening in the land that is NIO Comm? Well, this week has been a bit of a new one for me. I had to go up to London on my lonesome to get some surveys completed. Mainly I was going around the poplar area which wasn't too bad. Lots of walking required on that one, round trip of about 10km walking from area to area plus then walking all over the place getting photos of different sites. i didn't mind it too mu

Hello one and all and welcome to this week’s update. It will come as a surprise to no-one that this week has involved some planning, it always does. However, I've also been making some changes to the website. Not that they have gone live yet but we hope to roll them out very soon. You'll finally be able to see some of the smiley happy faces that work here at NIO Comm, isn't that marvellous? It’s nice to have a bit of a change every now and then so it’s been fun getting that u

Last weeks admin work is paying off fantastically. The new planning pack templates I put together have made the QC process much smoother and simpler for us. Took me a while to write some of the VBA for it but it works somewhat which is good. Updated some of my own personal templates as well so when I'm designing schematics I've got everything set up in my preferred style which helps speed up my drawing. We've started using them across my team as well which is nice. On from th

I've had a week of getting some admin based work nailed down this week. I've been updating our template packs for different things and making them all sparkly and professional looking. Not that they weren't before, but they could use a little extra done. Its mainly back end things that we as planners will be using, the clients are unlikely to see any of it, but its still going to make our lives a lot easier. As well as the admin based work, I've also been looking to getting e

Hello one and all. My apologies that there wasn't an update last week. We've had so much work going on that I simply did not have the time (or memory) to contemplate writing anything. Over the past two weeks we have been working furiously on making sure our civils contract runs as smoothly as possible. There have been a few issues along the way but we feel like we've finally got back into the groove of this for the end of this week. Now that we're through this we have been ab

We've commenced our large civils project up in Westminster this week which should be completed within 10 days. Wonderman is on the scene daily looking after the crews ensuring they're following the rules and delivering a superior quality. Myself and Starlord went up to Chelmsford today and then dropped into the site to see how it was going. Mainly this means a very long day for us as it’s a long trip there and back for us, but we did get a nice insight into the civils side of

Week Seventeen, wow. Doesn't really feel like it’s been that long to be honest. It’s surprising thinking about how many homes have passed through us over the past months. Anyway, onto the past week. Our workload is beginning to wind down slightly as we move into acquiring some new work, which isn't too much of a bad thing really. It'll allow me to get in some more advanced training, as well as working on some existing skills and boosting them. Overall, somewhat looking forwar

Hey, so I'm back in the office, back in England. Yay. Didn't like the beach and swimming every day, and just relaxing every day anyway. Much rather look at buildings. Definitely. Ah well. So whats been happening this week? Well, Swimming and sunbathing, but more importantly (I guess), planning work. Working on our fourth output block this week. Mainly we're bumping all our landlord packs into full packs. The landlord packs are basically purely design and how things will look.

Lots of work getting done this week. Deadlines hitting and new work starting so its all been a bit hectic. At least its not boring anyway. Right so whats been happening. Well firstly, we haven't been out this week surveying. Normally its about once a week so bit different this time around. We'll be going out first thing on Monday thought to clear through a couple we want to check out as special cases. Basically they just look a little confusing and we want to cement our infor

Hello once again, my attentive readers. This week has been good you'll be happy to know. Lots of work getting done, progress being made, and only one building that has been a right pain with numerous site visits required. Sorted out now though which is just lovely. Along those lines we've had some decently sized buildings come our way which will be started imminently. It's nice to get a large one as, not only do they have a vast number of homes, but it's nice to be able to fo