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Reinventing? Let's Standardize!
The construction industry in general and the architectural profession specifically, seem to enjoy the same challenge on every project. You would...
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PPD - Basic Organization
Preliminary Project Descriptions (PPD) are a formal method of presenting construction project data in a consistent, organized fashion. PPDs are...
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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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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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Are Peer Reviews Effective?
The project was a new single family residence. The architect wrote the specifications as notes to be placed on the drawings. The architect asked for...
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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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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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Whose intent is this anyway?
David Bishton, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, as Southwest Region CSI Editor, asks: "But how the heck does a contractor or supplier or installer of materials...