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The Times They Are A-Changin'
Ira Bloomenthal's CONSTRUCT2013 keynote address slide
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Linking BIM and Specs Through PPDs
Technology provides a means to connect data. Standards provide the organizations that make the data connections meaningful.
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Linking BIM to Specifications
The promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is that project data can reside in the model and can be extracted by anyone in a form for every...
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Building Design and Documentation Are Iterative
Building design starts with a concept, a sketch at a macro scale. At the first stroke of the designer's hand, there is no concern for concrete...
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Improving Owner's Design & Construction Standards
You've seen them. You've been required to comply with them. You've been required to implement them. You may have written them.
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Whose intent is this anyway?
David Bishton, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, as Southwest Region CSI Editor, asks: "But how the heck does a contractor or supplier or installer of materials...
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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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Specification Interviews - the Art of Data Gathering
CSI Specifying Practice group continues to grow and meets at 3:00 PM eastern the first Thursday each month. The show goes on despite the technical...