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Architecture is not an easy profession to enter. To become an architect, candidates must obtain specialized advanced education, work their way through an extended mandatory internship process and sit for lengthy state licensing examinations that all...
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As we enter the final week of this year's thoroughly enjoyable World Cup soccer tournament, with the countries of France, Belgium, Croatia, and...
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My attention was recently directed to an interesting blog post by Lee Jussim in Psychology Today that questions whether most published findings in...
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There are a few significant challenges when it comes to performing specification consulting work. Obviously, there are the fun and interesting...
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One of the significant reasons for the existence of specifications is to describe the level of quality to the products and work that go into a...
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Last week, my colleague Marlon Hollis wrote eloquently about his meandering path from military aviation and law school into construction specifying,...
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Does one need an architectural degree to be a specifier? Elias Saltz, my colleague, argues that though it may be helpful, it is not a necessary...
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A Twitter discussion broke out recently after Paul Gerber posted this tweet in response to AIA tweeting a November, 2016 article by Ariana Zilliacus...
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Almost all architectural firms and specifications consultants maintain full sets of office master guide specifications, which, among their many...
