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David Stutzman: 9/9/13 2:39 AM
The bidders are required to attend a pre-bid meeting. The owner, the design team, and (presumably) all the bidders attend. Each meeting follows...
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David Stutzman: 9/2/13 10:30 AM
This month the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will hold its annual convention and the Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice...
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David Stutzman: 7/8/13 11:04 AM
Why the Architect/Engineer (A/E), of course! CSI MasterFormat Division 01 Level 2 titles courtesy of www.masterformat.com
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David Stutzman: 5/27/13 10:25 AM
I just completed review of a new document that the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will be publishing soon: The CSI Sustainable Design...
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David Stutzman: 5/20/13 8:10 AM
A spec writer? Of course you know what a spec writer is. Spec writers produce the project manual. They create all the project requirements for the...
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David Stutzman: 4/22/13 7:46 AM
How can Conspectus build a catalog and ultimately leverage the collective knowledge of every employee and every client?
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David Stutzman: 3/18/13 3:22 PM
The promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is that project data can reside in the model and can be extracted by anyone in a form for every...
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David Stutzman: 3/11/13 12:31 PM
In the past two weeks, I attended two different leadership seminars for two professional associations, AIA and CSI. What struck me after attending...
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David Stutzman: 1/7/13 5:30 AM
A very good question. By searches on this blog, it is one question that definitely wants to be answered. Something must be necessary, but is it...
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David Stutzman: 11/5/12 8:07 AM
Several discussions about architectural licensing and use of the term "Architect" started recently on blog posts (See Liz O'Sullivan's blog) and on...
