First time buyers should be made a protected species they are so rare. The Banks have tightened mortgage lending so much that the average loan to value ratio is now below 60%, completely stalling the property market. Last year only 194,600 first time buyers managed to get a loan, which Continue Reading
Dihydrogen Monoxide should be banned!
Dihydrogen monoxide should be banned as a matter of urgency. It is well known that this chemical is fatal when inhaled, contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape, may cause electrical failures, and has been found in the excised tumours of terminal cancer patients. And yet we find this Continue Reading
Mobile Apps are history!
I have always wondered why businesses are so keen on mobile Apps. They spend significant sums of money developing a bit of software that will only run on a single phone platform – iPhone, Android, Symbian etc. and then each application has to be fine tuned for individual phone or Continue Reading
The parent habit
There was a lovely phrase in a Guardian article today, written by a single mother who brought up a son on her own. When she first realised she was pregnant and on her own she says “I found it a huge relief to give up the habits of egotism ingrained Continue Reading
Outlook search folders
I have been an Outlook user for many years and have got used to its idiosyncracies. As it has improved over that time I have even got to like it and certainly beome dependant on it as my most used app. But I have only just discovered ‘search folders’. Search folders Continue Reading
The Irish Financial Crisis
One of the main lessons that economists claim we have learnt from the 1930 crash and the subsequent depression that lasted most of the decade (and arguably contributed to the war that followed), was that the beggar thy neighbour policy of competitive currency devaluations was a major cause and should never Continue Reading
Who can we trust in business?
I was recently sent the results of a survey by T-Mobile (see bottom of the post) which says that most people will turn to their spouse for advise rather than any professional advisor. Personally I think this is an entirely rational response. When I see Bank advertising that one should Continue Reading
JP Morgan Bank
Denaploy is very proud to have been appointed as one of only 3 companies in the UK, able to supply O&M manuals for JP Morgan across its entire property portfolio.
O and M manuals are digital
It always takes a long time for traditional systems to be replaced, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the default requirement for an O&M manual is that it works as a digital document as well as a paper file. The advantages of the digital manual are: Convenience: A complete Continue Reading
Converting paper manuals to digital
A little while ago we were asked by CBRE to convert some paper manuals to a digital format. They were taking over a building and the outgoing tenant had literally thrown all the manuals (100s of files and drawings) into a big heap in the middle of the floor. This Continue Reading