Europe Scoped per project, not sold from a shelf.

Metric throughout,

in the conventions the project uses. European annotation and dimensioning practice differs from British practice in ways that are small individually and obvious collectively.

EN references where the specification imposes them.

European standards appear in performance requirements, fire and material specification, and what they oblige varies by country and by product.

Country-level procurement variation.

Tendering, documentation format and the expected level of contractor design input differ materially between European markets. There is no single European convention to work to.

Hardware and material availability.

Specified products and systems differ by market, and a substitution that is routine in one country may be unavailable in another.

European work is taken on enquiry. Scope, convention and documentation format are agreed per project rather than assumed from a standard package.

What is consistent is the process. Work is drawn in your platform to your conventions, checked by someone other than the detailer who produced it, and reviewed by a named senior person before it reaches you.

If your project is in a market we have not documented before, we will say so and scope it accordingly rather than assuming the conventions transfer.

British convention applied to a continental project.

Close enough to look right and wrong enough to be noticed.

EN obligations read as description.

Performance requirements treated as background on a project that specified them.

Assumed product availability.

A specified system substituted for one that is not distributed in that market.

One European convention assumed for all of Europe.

The most common error and the least defensible.