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CSI's Specifying Practice Group met to debate why contractor submittals are required, how submittals are classified, and the A/E's responsibilities for submittals. Must the A/E require submittals to ensure the owner gets what is due? Will submittals...
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"Limiting the scope of the spec writers may save a few thousand dollars during the design phase, but it can result in expensive conflicts after...
Competitive Construction Procurement: What do I need besides the drawings and spec? Bidders need additional information about the bidding process to...
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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...
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I was reminded recently about a quote from our client that I first heard years ago.
Flatness, Levelness, F-Numbers, Straightedge: What do the numbers mean? Recent changes to ACI 117 provide new procedures for straightedge...
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The July 1st CSI Specifying Practice Group meeting focused on how to collect project data required to write specifications. Group members Louis...
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What do you use to describe your design projects? Will owners, lenders, estimators and others understand the design intent? Traditional methods rely...
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What is an AW60 window and how will it perform? The window performance classes and performance grades set by the North American Fenestration Standard...
