Since 1998, COGNICA have been preparing digital O&M manuals and providing technical authoring services for construction and utilities customer project handover. With over 6000 projects, 6 million documents and over 25 years’ experience, you can be sure your handover project is in safe hands.
“Our mission is to blend technology and expertise to provide our customers with an efficient, secure, reliable and complete building & site information management solution spanning O&Ms, Technical Authoring, Legacy to Digital Conversion, Laser 360° Reality Capture and scan hosting to facilitate ongoing estate maintenance”
COGNICA's evolution has been at the forefront of industry requirements from our roots in digitising huge portfolios of paper O&M manuals for the water utilities sectors, to the development of advanced digital O&M document management solutions. Along the way we aligned our services with the introduction of BIM for document management, incorporated digital laser photogrammetry Reality Capture solutions to integrate with O&M documentation for enhanced site maintenance capabilities, developed innovative digital O&M manuals services in NaviDoc and publication to SharePoint, in addition to adding numerous technical authoring document solutions to accompany the O&M manuals for a comprehensive solution.
We’ve adapted to the changes in fire safety regulations in the UK due to the Grenfell Enquiry, by developing a solution to support our customers with Regulation 38 Fire Safety Packs for handovers and on-going estates and site management.
Legislative changes to the Building Safety Act, high-rise buildings, Golden Thread, and digital, updatable O&M information have led to enhancements in solutions including live O&Ms, full audit trails, document version history management, integration with 3rd party common data environments & construction management software such as ViewPoint, Aconex, Asite, Procore etc.
Whether your project is a high specification office, a water treatment works, laboratory, a school, a commercial or residential building, we have the experience and resources to handle the management of your handover documentation. Here, at COGNICA, our Customer needs are our priority. Consultancy and best practice are offered as standard across all projects to support digital O&Ms and technical authoring of the highest standards, ensuring project handover goes right first time, every time and on time.
Our knowledge, experience and extensive portfolio of customers make COGNICA leading providers of O&M documentation and technical authoring projects supporting our customers’ digital handovers. COGNICA are proud to be part of RSK Group where we benefit from extensive central services, resources and opportunities for collaboration and development.
Trust, reliability and quality are essential to our business success.
We work closely with our customers to deliver exceptional quality and value. Your information, our expertise.
We invest in our people through recognition, training and progression to ensure we protect our most valuable assets.
Change is a natural part of business, we welcome change for the opportunities it offers.
We commit to what we can achieve, we deliver what we commit to, we strive to support all our customers’ requirements to the best of our ability.
In the late 1990s, a major water utilities agency faced a growing number of operational and maintenance issues involving its asset base. They needed an efficient system to manage the operation and maintenance of their vital data for site management and maintenance.
This was the birth of COGNICA. We developed an industry first digital O&M solution to host all water utility site O&M documentation for historical and future projects and COGNICA are proud to still provide to this date.
COGNICA then branched out of water utilities and now is a leading provider of digital O&M solutions to multiple sectors, including Construction, Education, Healthcare, Residential, Renewable Energy, Commercial, Government and more.
COGNICA has innovated beyond O&M manuals to incorporate technical authoring, digital hosting, direct publication into customer SharePoint sites, integration with 3rd party CDEs/CMS such as ViewPoint, Aconex, Asite, Procore etc, embedding O&M documentation with 3D reality capture laser scans with our Insite360 application service and more. Customers can be sure their project handover and site maintenance documentation is in safe hands.
During 2020 COGNICA joined RSK Group and became part of a much larger ecosystem of complementary business services giving us access to a global network of expertise, helping to provide an even stronger service to our customers. Discover more about RSK Group here.
COGNICA’s quality management systems provide our clients with complete confidence in the reliability of our products and solutions and is a registered
member of the ICO for Data Protection under reference ZA751681.
COGNICA hold a number of active quality certifications including ISO 9001 certification for collation and delivery of information (DNV), ISO 14001 for its
Environmental Management System (DNV), ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety System (DNV), ISO 19650-2 for BIM Level 2 delivery (BSI). In
addition, COGNICA hold further accreditations in Builder’s Profile Premium, Constructionline Gold, Achilles UVDB Silver, Acclaim (SSIP scheme), IHEEM affiliate and
CSCS cards for construction site safety.
The COGNICA business is built around teams of project managers, document handlers, technical authors, BIM technicians, LIDAR scanning engineers and IT.
Head of Operations
More infoChristie’s has over 19 years of customer focused delivery across multiple industries, from International Relocation for blue-chip clients, to Estate Management and the Construction Industry. Her primary focus is to ensure that Customers have full confidence in what we do. She excels at problem-solving, enjoys efficiency and ensuring the team are ahead of the curve.
IT and Engineering Manager
More infoScott has over 25 years in the IT and document management industry, specialising in the Microsoft technology stack, spanning both operations, security, development and support.
Solutions Consultant
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Commercial Services Manager
More infoAnna's 20+ years industry experience with analysing O&M project requirements for construction and utilities projects, managing customer accounts, sales pipelines and coordinating marketing activities ensures our customers are in good hands with COGNICA.
Fully managed conversion of legacy paper to digital O&Ms, no project too big or too small.
MoreWe take the stress out of project handovers with our inhouse digital O&M systems, or your CMS/CDE, using our managed services teams and technical authors.
MoreO&Ms delivered directly into your SharePoint tenant, full site setup, configuration, and training.
MoreReality capture digital twins of your buildings, utilities, and external sites with Insite360 & NavVis VLX rapid mobile laser scanning.
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Bowmer & Kirkland were having delivery issues with their current provider and reached out to COGNICA to help.
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COGNICA facilitate and supervise the compilation and creation of the Operations and Maintenance Manual
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This project consisted of upgrading and extending the facilities over several phases. This was a BIM Level 2 Scheme.
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