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Linking BIM and Specs Through PPDs
Technology provides a means to connect data. Standards provide the organizations that make the data connections meaningful.
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Minutes are Minutes and Not Addenda
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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SPECtember - Value Certified Construction Specifiers
This month the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will hold its annual convention and the Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice...
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Simplex or Duplex - Reducing Spec Volume
We started a new project this week with a familiar client. One of the first things we do is to set the specifications formatting instructions for the...
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Who's Minding Division 01?
Why the Architect/Engineer (A/E), of course! CSI MasterFormat Division 01 Level 2 titles courtesy of www.masterformat.com
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Can Goals Be Requirements?
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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What's a Specifier?
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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Enterprise 2.0 Connections
How can Conspectus build a catalog and ultimately leverage the collective knowledge of every employee and every client?
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Communication - The Heart of Specifications
Just who are specifications written for? The Architect? The Owner? Neither! In order of importance, I profess that specifications are written for the...