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So Whose Job Is It - Selecting Manufacturers and Products?
Is it the Architect or the Specifier? The best I can tell, it depends.
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Practice Group Survey - Acceptable Product Submittals
This month the CSI Specifying Practice Group discussed the results of a group survey about product submittals. The intent was to learn how the group...
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Importance of Tables of Contents
Tables of Contents are a valuable coordination tool to ensure the project manual includes everything required without duplication or conflict. The...
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Coordinating Drawing Notes and Specs
The need to coordinate drawings and specifications may seem obvious, but why is it so important? There are two primary reasons:
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Acceptable Product Submittals
A surprising dichotomy: Architects say approval of products that are not specified should be documented as contract modifications, but most simply...
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Cut-and-Paste Specifications - ConstructionAdvisorToday
Critical Thinking Required! Copying and using standard specifications without carefully considering the content as it applies to a specific project...
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Specification Decision Process
We all know Specifiers are responsible for documenting product decisions, but who should be making the decisions? When should product decisions be...
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Efficient Email Communications
An architect wrote to us to request specification revisions for a project in the middle of the bidding phase. Only one of the comments was unclear....
Your Guide to the New Draft of LEED - BuildingGreen.com
Environmental Building News (EBN) published a guide to the proposed changes to LEED NC issued for public comment and expected to be released in 2012....
CSI Buys BSD and Master Specification Product
Today, The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) announced the purchase of Building Systems Design (BSD). See http://www.csinet.org/bsdpr for...