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Need Information? Develop Your Network!
Last week I was reminded just how valuable good relationships are. A trusted product representative scheduled a meeting with us to explain recent...
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How Can Owners Protect Their Interests?
Building owners contract with architects, contractors, design-builders, or integrated project delivery (IPD) teams to create the owners' facilities....
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What Challenges do Specifiers Face?
When I attended a Metro NY CSI planning meeting, we were discussing ideas for chapter programs. I was asked the question "What is the biggest problem...
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How do You Communicate Basis of Design?
Collecting basis of design product data before starting the project specifications takes time. It takes even more time to get the right information....
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Building Owners Requiring Specialty Consultants
Last week I replied to an owner's request for proposal (RFP). The owner included a requirement that the architect retain specific firms for specialty...
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Where is the next crop of Specifiers?
Perhaps the first question should be: Do we need another crop of Specifiers? After all, we should be able to push the BIM spec button and generate a...
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CSI Certification - It's Worth the Effort
I heard specs mentioned once in school. It was in one class of the professional practice course - the 30 hour course to teach students everything...
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I Hate Specs!
Have you found yourself thinking or possibly yelling, "I hate specs!" as though you have been cursed by the task? Then think about this:
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The Future of Specifications
So what is the future? Hard to know, but Louis Medcalf presented ideas shared at CONSTRUCT2011 in Chicago with the Specifying Practice Group.
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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.