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Fiduciary Duty for Design Professionals - an Introduction
In his blog post last week, David Stutzman presented several examples illustrating ways in which architects fail in their fiduciary duty to owners,...
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Can owners have trust and confidence in specifiers?
First, owners must know who the specifiers are before this question can be answered. Trust and confidence is an underlying core principle of the...
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Eliminate Asymmetric Project Information
Successful construction projects rely on complete, accurate, timely, and understandable communication; maximizing all of these reduces the likelihood...
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Specs = Non-Graphic Project Data
In the construction industry, projects are defined by drawings (graphic data) and specifications (non-graphic data). Traditional construction...
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Asking Better Questions
My attention was recently directed to an interesting blog post by Lee Jussim in Psychology Today that questions whether most published findings in...
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Making Use of New Communications Tools
There are a few significant challenges when it comes to performing specification consulting work. Obviously, there are the fun and interesting...
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The Right and Wrong Time to Review Installers' Qualifications
One of the significant reasons for the existence of specifications is to describe the level of quality to the products and work that go into a...
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A Traditional but Not-So-Smooth Path Into Specifications
Last week, my colleague Marlon Hollis wrote eloquently about his meandering path from military aviation and law school into construction specifying,...
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Architecture Degree - What is it good for?
A Twitter discussion broke out recently after Paul Gerber posted this tweet in response to AIA tweeting a November, 2016 article by Ariana Zilliacus...