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Evaluating Information Sources

Elias Saltz:

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

Elias Saltz:

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

David Stutzman:

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

David Stutzman:

Construction specifications define work results. The results are divided among Divisions and Sections according to CSI's MasterFormat, the industry's...

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Front Line Quality Assurance

David Stutzman:

When does quality assurance begin during the design process for a construction project? Often formal document review may be planned for those last...

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Aren't Specs Contract Documents?

David Stutzman:

What statements below do you believe to be true?

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Evolving Specifications Construct 2014 presentation

David Stutzman:

Specifiers may be one of the best kept secrets on the design team. Specifiers, especially independent specifiers, typically interact with the...

RH Effects on Wood Flooring

David Stutzman:

Wood flooring, like all wood products is affected by moisture. It swells. It shrinks. And it is expected to always look as perfect as the day it is...

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A Specifier's Christmas Wish

David Stutzman:

Just what would a specifier wish for Christmas? Peace? Goodwill? Perhaps, but there are some more mundane wishes to help improve every construction...