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Specifications Formats & Processes Refresh
Updated and republished: October 5, 2022
SectionFormat
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Writing a Spec Section From Scratch
Almost every specification section most specifiers will ever need is available in one or more commercial master guides, and for those that aren't,...
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Format? OR Content?
When writing construction specifications what is really important the format or content? Listening to some design teams, it seems lack of consistent...
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Contract Documents are Related
It's a debate. The debate is evidenced in all the commercial guide specifications and even CSI's SectionFormat™. Related Requirements is an article...
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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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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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What's so Important about Submittals?
An interesting question--no doubt about it! More than 90 Specifying Practice Group members, an attendance record, met last week to discuss it.
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Specifying Different Products Differently
What, you say? Of course, different products are specified differently! Concrete block, doors, and air handlers are simply not the same. Why would...
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Submittals, Submittals, Submittals
CSI's Specifying Practice Group met to debate why contractor submittals are required, how submittals are classified, and the A/E's responsibilities...
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SectionFormat and PageFormat 2008
Fifty-three members of CSI's Specifying Practice Group met August 5 to discuss the updates for two of CSI's formatting documents: SectionFormat and...