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Ensuring Specifications Consistency & Quality
How can architects ensure their specifications are consistent from one project to the next or one project architect to the next? How can architects...
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Need Help at 11th Hour? Join CSI
Who are the first sources of product information, especially when it is 6 PM and the spec must be issued the next day? CSI members! I know I can rely...
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Multipurpose Design Documents
What documents are architects obligated to produce? The obvious answer may be drawings, of course, to show what design must be constructed. Under AIA...
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Improving Owner's Design & Construction Standards
You've seen them. You've been required to comply with them. You've been required to implement them. You may have written them.
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What Is Your Best Source for Product Research?
Because of discussions about a current project, I got to thinking: Just what is the best product research source? Since there are so many sources,...
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How Perfect Must Specifications Be?
I would like to produce perfect documents every time. However, I remember Hal Barcus, one of my architecture professors saying, "Architecture is...
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Division 01 - It's not boilerplate!
Division 01 sets the basic rules for administrative procedures of a construction contract. You may think that once written for a particular firm,...
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Building a Community with Social Media
I am not certain how to measure a community today. Before social media, I could have counted business cards in my Rolodex and friends in my...
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