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Maintaining Office Master Guide Specifications
Almost all architectural firms and specifications consultants maintain full sets of office master guide specifications, which, among their many...
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Construction Document Quality Crisis
This paper was first presented by Louis Medcalf, FCSI, CCS, SCIP and David Stutzman, AIA, CSI, CCS, SCIP at the National Institute of Building...
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Teaching Young Professionals About Specifications
David Stutzman visited Chicago last week to stop in and talk to some of his current clients as well as to try to grow Conspectus's business into new...
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Preventing Construction Failures
Looking at the recent history of construction, we find that it is littered with a spectrum of failures, from minor cosmetic types up to and including...
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The Benefits of Speed Dating Events
Over the past year, several Conpsectus team members have attended architect-manufacturer summits, colloquially known as 'speed dating' events. David...
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Evaluating Information Sources
Architects and specifiers alike face significant and continuous challenges when it comes to identifying and validating reliable information about...
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Properly Written Specs Can Help You Avoid Awkward Conversations
Imagine you're a project architect and you're nearing completion of CD's. For half a year, you've been neck-deep in the project meetings, made myriad...
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Linking BIM and Specs with Keynotes
Coordination, coordination, coordination! The better construction documents are coordinated, the better the outcome for the owner - not to mention...
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Single Source Responsibility
Construction specifications define work results. The results are divided among Divisions and Sections according to CSI's MasterFormat, the industry's...